Early Voting Combined at 3 PM Shows 68.1% Turnout... Surpasses 30 Million Voters

Voter Turnout at the Same Time 4.4%P Higher Than the 19th Presidential Election

On the 9th, the day of the 20th presidential election, voters are lined up in a long queue at the Seongsu 1-ga 2-dong 4th polling station set up in the Seongsu Ssangyong Apartment senior citizens' center in Seongdong-gu, Seoul. Photo by Hyunmin Kim kimhyun81@

[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Hyun-joo] As of 3 PM on the 9th, the voter turnout for the 20th presidential election was recorded at 68.1%.

The National Election Commission announced that the provisional voter turnout for the presidential election at 3 PM was 68.1%. Out of a total of 44,197,692 registered voters for this election, about 30.09 million had cast their votes. Compared to the 19th presidential election, where the turnout at the same time was 63.7%, this is 4.4 percentage points higher.

Including early voting, the regions with the highest turnout rates were Jeonnam at 75.3%, Gwangju at 74.4%, and Jeonbuk at 74.2%. Daegu, which had a low early voting rate, recorded 69.3%, and Gyeongbuk was at 71.1%.

The regions with the lowest turnout rates were Jeju at 64.8%, Busan and Incheon at 65.4%, and Chungnam at 65.9%. Gyeonggi had a turnout of 66.8%, which was lower than the overall turnout, while Seoul matched the overall turnout at 68.1%.

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