The National Election Commission announced that as of 3 pm on the 4th, the first day of early voting for the 20th presidential election, the turnout was 12.31%.
This is higher than the turnout (11.7%) on the first day of early voting in the 2017 19th presidential election.
In advance voting, which started at 6 am today, out of a total of 44,197,692 electors, 5,442,667 voted by 3 pm, recording a turnout of 12.31%.
This is 4.03 percentage points higher than the voter turnout (8.28%) at 3 pm on the first day of early voting for the 19th presidential election in May 2017.
The turnout rate (8.49%) at the same time on the first day of early voting for the April 21st National Assembly General Election in April 2020 is also much higher than the result.
If the current trend continues in advance voting, which will be held until tomorrow, it is predicted that it will break the record of the 21st general election (26.69%), which was the previous highest early voting turnout.
At the time of the 19th presidential election, the final early turnout was 26.06% and the final turnout was 77.2%.
Jeollanam-do (20.6%) had the highest early voter turnout by province and province as of 3pm today, exceeding 20% first.
The lowest place was Gyeonggi-do (10.49%).