Daegu Cooperative Head Elections: 9 New Faces Elected in 26 Districts... Voter Turnout 86%, Highest Nationwide

The Daegu City Election Commission announced on the 9th that in the 3rd Nationwide Simultaneous Cooperative Head Elections, 66 candidates registered across 26 cooperatives, and 32,417 cooperative members (out of 37,682 eligible voters) participated in the voting.

The national average voter turnout for this election was 79.6% (compared to 80.7% in the 2nd nationwide election), and Daegu recorded the highest turnout nationwide at 86%, which is 0.5 percentage points higher than the 85.5% turnout in the 2nd election. By cooperative under Daegu’s jurisdiction, 23 agricultural cooperatives had a turnout of 87.1%, and one forestry cooperative had a turnout of 70.7%.

The cooperative with the highest voter turnout was Daegu Gyeongbuk Horticultural Cooperative, where voting was conducted by delegate election, with a turnout of 97.9%, while the lowest turnout was at Daegu Dalseong Forestry Cooperative with 70.7%.

Daegu Election Commission.

In this election, out of the 26 cooperatives, 24 incumbent cooperative heads ran for re-election, with 17 winning, and the heads of 9 cooperatives changed. The age distribution of the elected candidates was 7 in their 50s, 17 in their 60s, and 2 aged 70 or older. By gender, 24 were male (92.3%) and 2 were female (7.7%).

The cooperatives with uncontested elections were Daegu Gyeongbuk Swine Cooperative and Okpo Agricultural Cooperative. The highest vote percentage was 80.5% by Lee Sang-tae of Dasa Agricultural Cooperative, and the lowest was 36.0% by Park Myung-sook of Wolbae Agricultural Cooperative.

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