Subtle swing: South Korea’s center-left opposition Democratic Party won a landslide victory, increasing its number of seats in the 300-seat National Assembly from 156 to 175. Analysts viewed this as a referendum on conservative People Power Party leader Yoon Seok-yeol, who was in the second year of his five-year term, who won 108 seats. The upstart liberal opposition party Rebuild Korea, founded by former Minister of Justice Cho Kuk a month before the election to make former Prosecutor General Yoon a lame duck or even a dead duck, won 12 seats. It was the only other party to gain seats.