South Korea parliamentary election polls
Parliamentary election By 12 Apr 2028, in 17 months.
Democratic Party of Korea leads the polling average with 39.5%, 8.2 points ahead of People Power Party.
Also polled: Presidential election.
Average
Updated 34 minutes ago
DPKDemocratic Party of Korea
39.5
−4.0
PPPPeople Power Party
31.4
+1.3
RKPRebuilding Korea Party
4.0
+1.1
PPProgressive Party
1.1
−0.2
Trend
DPKPPPRKPRPPP
Stances
DPKPPPRKPRPPP
Immigration1 unplaced
ExpandRestrictRemigration
Economy
Free marketState-directed
Abortion1 unplaced
Broad accessProtect unborn life
Marriage & family
Individual choiceTraditional
National culture
CosmopolitanPreserve heritage
Technology
Light-touchRein in Big Tech
Scores and reasons written by AI. Methodology
Why these scores
Immigration
- Democratic Party of Korea: 4.5 of 10 Lee government cut foreign work visas about 40% and seeks to bar rejected asylum seekers reapplying
- People Power Party: 5.5 of 10 Backs immigration agency for labour needs but would strip voting rights from foreigners without reciprocity
- Reform Party: 5 of 10 Backs reciprocity limits on Chinese nationals' voting and health-insurance access; no deportation agenda
- Progressive Party: 2 of 10 Supports migrant workers' rights and multiculturalism; accused COVID rules of discriminating against foreign workers
Economy
- Democratic Party of Korea: 5.5 of 10 Raised corporate tax to 25%, record 728 trillion won 2026 budget, union-damages limits law, universal vouchers
- People Power Party: 3 of 10 Opposed 2025 corporate tax rise and union-damages law; seeks inheritance tax cuts and deregulation
- Rebuilding Korea Party: 6.5 of 10 Pledges 'social rights' welfare state, budget office reform, property-tax normalisation, bigger safety net
- Reform Party: 2.5 of 10 Pledged cutting ministries from 19 to 13, ending free senior subway rides, private low-cost rail
- Progressive Party: 8 of 10 Would cap inheritances at 3 billion won with state taking the rest; dismantle chaebol; abolish non-regular jobs
Christian identity
- Democratic Party of Korea: 2.5 of 10 No religious-law agenda; Christian lawmakers stall LGBT anti-discrimination law; Lee backed disbanding Unification Church
- People Power Party: 3.5 of 10 Strong Protestant church base; opposes anti-discrimination law on religious-freedom grounds
- Rebuilding Korea Party: 2 of 10 Secular social-liberal programme with no religious agenda
- Reform Party: 2 of 10 Secular libertarian-conservative programme; no religious agenda
- Progressive Party: 1.5 of 10 Secular labour-left programme with no religious agenda
Abortion
- Democratic Party of Korea: 2.5 of 10 Accepts no gestational limit since 2021; Lee government phasing in abortion pills to 9 weeks from 2027
- People Power Party: 4 of 10 2020 PPP bills (Cho Hae-jin) sought 6-10 week limits; no restriction proposed since; no party line
- Rebuilding Korea Party: 2 of 10 Leader Cho Kuk argued abortion should not be criminal; no restrictive bill
- Progressive Party: 1.5 of 10 Supports women's reproductive rights and opposes re-criminalising abortion; no gestational-limit proposal
Marriage & family
- Democratic Party of Korea: 4.5 of 10 Opposes same-sex marriage; defers LGBT anti-discrimination law to 'social consensus'; kept and expanded gender ministry
- People Power Party: 6 of 10 Opposes same-sex marriage and anti-discrimination law; Yoon pledged abolishing gender ministry and a population ministry
- Rebuilding Korea Party: 3 of 10 Social-liberal platform; no opposition to same-sex unions recorded, but no partnership bill either
- Reform Party: 4.5 of 10 Would abolish gender ministry; Lee backs non-discrimination by orientation but calls anti-discrimination law premature
- Progressive Party: 2 of 10 Charter adds a gender-equality platform, 50% women candidate quota; supports LGBT rights
National culture
- Democratic Party of Korea: 4.5 of 10 Strong line against Japanese historical revisionism; Lee ordered crackdown on anti-Chinese rallies; no multiculturalism programme
- People Power Party: 6 of 10 National-conservative and anti-communist; Yoon put New Right historians at Independence Hall; hostile to Chinese influence
- Rebuilding Korea Party: 4.5 of 10 Opposes Japanese historical revisionism and seeks inter-Korean engagement; no heritage or language agenda
- Reform Party: 5 of 10 Civic identity with sharp anti-Beijing line on Chinese residents; pro US-Japan-Korea alliance; no heritage agenda
- Progressive Party: 4.5 of 10 Left ethnic nationalism: reunification, US troop withdrawal; but backs migrant workers and multiculturalism
Subsidiarity
- Democratic Party of Korea: 6 of 10 Pledges completed Sejong administrative capital; moved Oceans Ministry to Busan; regional mega-integration
- People Power Party: 5.5 of 10 Backed second presidential office and Assembly branch in Sejong; no broad devolution programme
- Rebuilding Korea Party: 6 of 10 Pledges balanced regional development and administrative-capital relocation legislation
- Reform Party: 5.5 of 10 Pledged weaker presidency and smaller central government with fewer ministries
- Progressive Party: 5 of 10 No distinctive decentralisation programme; favours direct democracy and citizen participation
Technology
- Democratic Party of Korea: 6 of 10 Passed 2025 false-information punitive-damages law and AI Basic Act; platform fairness bill shelved
- People Power Party: 3.5 of 10 Filibustered DPK false-information law, opposes ex-ante platform rules; co-passed promotional AI Basic Act
- Rebuilding Korea Party: 6 of 10 Voted with DPK for 2025 false-information punitive-damages law; supports platform regulation
- Reform Party: 3 of 10 Lee Jun-seok opposed N-th room law content filtering as censorship; opposed false-information law
- Progressive Party: 6 of 10 No tech programme found; scored from its strong regulatory stance on big platforms and chaebol