(Revoting due to Natural Disaster or Terrestrial Upheaval)

(1) Where the voting in a voting district is not held due to a natural disaster or terrestrial upheaval or for other unavoidable reasons, or a ballot box is lost or destroyed, the competent constituency election commission shall hold a revoting for the voting district concerned, and then decide the elected person for the election district.

<Amended by Act No. 4947, Apr. 1, 1995; Act No. 6663, Mar. 7, 2002; Act No. 7189, Mar. 12, 2004>

(2) If the revoting as provided in paragraph (1) is deemed to have no effect on the result of the election for the relevant election district, the elected
person shall be decided without holding the revoting.

<Amended by Act No. 6663, Mar. 7, 2002; Act No. 7189, Mar. 12, 2004>

(3) With respect to the revoting as provided in paragraph (1), if there is a merged political party, in the calculation of obtained votes for reallocating the seats of the proportional representative National Assembly members and the proportional representative City/Do council members as provided in Article 194, the number of the votes obtained by the candidate and the proportional representative local council members shall be added to the votes obtained by the political party to which the candidate has belonged before the merger.

<Amended by Act No. 6265, Feb. 16, 2000; Act No. 6663, Mar. 7, 2002; Act No. 7189, Mar. 12, 2004; Act No. 7681, Aug. 4, 2005>

(4) The provisions of Article 197 (3) through (6) shall apply mutatis mutandis to the revoting to be held due to a natural disaster or terrestrial upheaval.
(5) The election campaign and expenses for the revoting under paragraph (1), and other necessary matters shall be prescribed by Regulations of the National Election Commissionwithin the limit of this Act.