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As you can see, this presidential election was very, very literally, to the extent that there was almost no difference in the percentage of votes by region except for some regions.

From the exit polls of the three broadcasters to the close battle, the situation continued all night until the last minute of the counting.



Reporter Park Sang-jin reports.



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[Democratic Party candidate Lee Jae-myung 47.8% and (People's Power) Yoon Seok-yeol 48.4% showed a close battle.]



Yesterday (9th) at 7:30 pm, the exit poll results of the three terrestrial broadcasters were announced, but the Democratic Party and the People's Power Neither of them laughed.



The gap between the two published candidates was only 1 percentage point or 0.6 percentage points smaller than the margin of error of 1.6 percentage points.



At 8:11 pm, as the counting began with Ulleung, North Gyeongsang Province, candidate Lee Jae-myung took the lead.



Candidate Lee seemed to outperform Candidate Yoon by maintaining a difference of 3 to 6 percentage points in the vote all along.



However, the gap gradually narrowed, and when the national voting rate reached 40%, it turned into a close match of less than 1 percentage point.



The turning point was around 0:30 this morning, at the time of the counting rate of 51%, candidate Yoon took the first place and succeeded in reversing.



However, the situation in which Candidate Yoon also could not widen the gap by less than 1 percentage point continued until the last minute of the counting.



[Right now, 81.8% of the votes have been counted, but the difference between the two candidates has not yet reached 300,000.]



In the end, the national vote counting rate exceeded 97% and candidate Lee Jae-myung declared defeat, effectively ending the suffocating ballot counting match in about 7 hours and 40 minutes. I did.



[Lee Jae-myung / Democratic Party Presidential Candidate: Folks, I did my best, but I did not live up to your expectations.] It



was the longest and most close match in the history of the presidential election.