North Korean local elections, 2011
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Elections to provincial, municipal, city, county and district people's assemblies () were held in
North Korea North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu (Amnok) and T ...
on July 24, 2011. 28,116 provincial,
municipal A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
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city A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be def ...
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county A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposes Chambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French ...
and district people's assembly deputies were elected. Voter turnout was reported as 99.97%, with candidates receiving a 100% approval rate. It was reported that Kim Jong Il voted at the sub constituency No.150 at Constituency 264 in Pyongyang City, where he cast his votes for Park Hyong Ryol (Head of factory for the Pyongyang Goksan (grain produce) factory) and Kang Chol ho (Head of factory for the Ryongsong egg processing factory). The election was the first time Kim Jong Un Voting for elections was reported on the North Korean news reports.


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