Voter Turnout at 57.4% in Local Elections as of 5 p.m.... Seoul Records 59.1%

Voting Continues Until 6 p.m. Today

The National Election Commission announced on June 3 that, as of 5:00 p.m., the voter turnout for the 9th nationwide simultaneous local elections stood at 57.4%.

On the 3rd, the day of the 9th nationwide simultaneous local elections, voters are going through the voting process at a polling station set up in an indoor sports center in Dobong-gu, Seoul. Photo by Yonhap News

Since voting began at 6:00 a.m. at polling stations nationwide, a total of 25,617,431 out of 44,649,908 eligible voters had cast their ballots. This figure includes the results of early voting, which took place on May 29 and 30 with a turnout of 23.51%, as well as absentee voting.

This turnout is 9.8 percentage points higher than the turnout at the same time during the 8th local elections (47.6%), and 1.3 percentage points higher than during the 7th local elections (56.1%).

If this trend continues, the turnout is expected to surpass that of the 7th local elections, which recorded a final turnout of 60.2%.

Jeonnam recorded the highest turnout at 63.6%, followed by Gangwon (61.9%), Gyeongnam (60.9%), and Jeonbuk (60.2%).

The lowest turnout was observed in Gwangju at 51.5%, followed by Jeju (53.8%), Gyeonggi and Incheon (54.6%), and Chungnam (55.8%). The turnout in Seoul was tallied at 59.1%.

The election will continue until 6:00 p.m. today. The hourly voter turnout officially announced by the National Election Commission is based on voting data compiled from 256 district, city, and county election commissions.

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