Early Voting Rate at 3 PM on First Day 6.36%... Seoul 6.66%, Busan 6.11%

On the first day of early voting for the April 7 by-elections, citizens are casting their votes at the early voting station set up at Namgajwa 1-dong Community Center in Seodaemun-gu, Seoul on the 2nd. Photo by Moon Honam munonam@

[Asia Economy Reporter Kum Bo-ryeong] As of 3 PM on the first day of early voting for the April 7 by-elections, the voter turnout rate exceeded 6%.

The National Election Commission announced on the 2nd that the early voting turnout rate for the April 7 by-elections as of 3 PM was 6.36%.

Out of 12,161,624 registered voters, 773,468 had completed voting in the early voting that started at 6 AM that day.

In particular, 560,870 people voted in the Seoul mayoral by-election, recording an early voting turnout rate of 6.66%.

In the Busan mayoral by-election, 179,286 people participated in early voting, resulting in a turnout rate of 6.11%.

By region, the highest early voting turnout rate was in Chungcheongbuk-do (7.81%), followed by Jeollanam-do (7.73%), Gyeongsangnam-do (7.63%), and Chungcheongnam-do (6.9%).

At the same time on the first day of early voting during last year's 21st general election, the turnout rate was 8.49%. In the 2018 local elections and the 2017 presidential election, the rates were 6.37% and 8.28%, respectively.

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