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In this presidential election, which was a very close contest, there was a lot of interest in the results as the results of the media predictions announced immediately after the voting ended were mixed.

An exit survey jointly conducted by three terrestrial broadcasters, including SBS, predicted an ultra-thin match within the margin of error.



Correspondent Jang Se-man.



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At 7:30 p.m., the results of the exit survey of the three terrestrial broadcasters, which were released to the public's attention, showed that



"the two candidates were close with 47.8% Lee Jae-myung and 48.4% Yoon Seok-yeol."



The gap in the prediction of the vote rate between the two candidates was 0.6 percentage points, very narrow.



The close battle, which lasted more than 8 hours, ended at around 5 am this morning.



As a result, the exit survey prediction was correct within the error range of ±0.8%. 



Democratic Party candidate Lee Jae-myung received the same votes to the first decimal place, and candidate Yoon Seok-yeol was only 0.2 percentage points apart.



Candidate Sang-Jeong Shim's rate of votes, which was predicted to be 2.5%, was also found to be 2.4% in the actual counting.



In this election, a separate public opinion poll played a major role in early voting, which was first introduced.



Although the proportion of early voting is increasing, it has been pointed out as a limitation as the current law prohibits exit polling of early voting.



In particular, in this election, the early voting rate reached an all-time high of 36.9%, so it was urgent to supplement it.



To this end, the three terrestrial broadcasters conducted separate telephone polls on the 6th and 7th, immediately after the pre-voting, and added the results to the exit polls for the main poll to increase the accuracy.



[Lee Chan-bok / Director of Ipsos, a polling agency: Experience has shown that there is a difference in political orientation between early voters and voters on the same day.

Conducting a telephone survey to accurately pinpoint such a difference seems to have contributed to the prediction of the total vote rate.]



The exit polls from the 16th presidential election in 2002 have accurately predicted the results of all five elections so far.