[Asia Economy Reporter Oh Ju-yeon] As of 11:02 PM on the 7th, the vote counting rate for the Seoul mayoral by-election was recorded at 11.08%.


According to the Central Election Management Committee's election statistics system, at this time, Oh Se-hoon, the candidate from the People Power Party, received 56.53%, and Park Young-sun, the candidate from the Democratic Party of Korea, received 40.42%. Out of 612,056 votes counted, Oh received 343,758 votes, and Park received 245,822 votes.


Exit polls from the three major broadcasters (KBS, MBC, SBS) predicted a landslide victory for candidate Oh.


On this day, the three broadcasters announced the results of the Seoul mayoral by-election exit poll conducted by KEP (Korea Election Pool), an organization under the Korea Broadcasting Association. The poll was conducted by three research institutions: Ipsos, Korea Research International, and Hankook Research.


In the exit polls by the three broadcasters, candidate Oh received 59.0% of the vote, winning against candidate Park, who received 37.7%.



This exit poll was conducted from 6 AM to 7 PM targeting 50 locations in Seoul and 11,140 people. The margin of error is ±1.7 percentage points at a 95% confidence level. Early voting results were not reflected.


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