Seongbuk B
constituency in Seoul, South Korea
Seongbuk B (Korean: 성북구 을) is a constituency of the National Assembly of South Korea. The constituency consists of portions of Seongbuk District, Seoul. As of 2020, 180,743 eligible voters were registered in the constituency. The constituency was created in 1988 from the Seongbuk constituency.
History
Throughout its history, Seongbuk B has consistently elected members of centre-left, liberal parties to represent the constituency except for in the 1996 and 2008 South Korean legislative election, thus it is widely considered a safe district for the Democratic Party. Cho Yoon-hyung of the centrist-liberal Peace Democratic Party was the first member to represent the constituency. He was succeeded by Shin Gye-ryun of the centre-left Democratic Party, who won the constituency in the 1992 election. Shin's re-election bid in 1996 was unsuccessful, as he lost to Kang Sung-jae of the conservative New Korea Party. In the subsequent legislative election held in 2000, Shin won the constituency as a member of the liberal Millennium Democratic Party, beating out incumbent Kang Sung-jae in a return match. Shin left the Millennium Democratic Party in 2003 to join the Uri Party led by then President Roh Moo-hyun.
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