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In this presidential election, it was expected that the overall turnout would exceed 80% as the early turnout recorded an all-time high, but the final turnout was only 77.1%, lower than in the previous election.



Reporter Kang Min-woo covered how this part is analyzed.



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pre-election voting was held in a close match.



Since early voting was introduced in the 2014 local elections, the record high of 36.93% was recorded.



Some even predicted that the turnout would be around 80% for the first time in 25 years since the 15th presidential election.



However, the final turnout was 77.1%.



It was 0.1 percentage point lower than the previous 19th presidential election.



The first cause cited by political scientists is Corona.



It is an analysis that voters chose distributed voting with 200,000 to 300,000 confirmed cases per day.



[Lee Jae-mook/Professor of Political Science and Diplomacy at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies: I think that the dispersion effect of dispersing voters on the main voting day was more dominant than the 'mobilization effect' of newly mobilizing voters.]



Regardless of the election fever, people It is said that there were only a lot of people who chose to vote in advance for fear of crowding.



There is also an interpretation that the extreme confrontation between the two camps and the gathering of supporters according to the face-to-face battles raised the early voting turnout, which is characteristic of suppressing the baseline.



[Kim Hyeong-jun/Advisor of the Korean Election Society: Both camps fought an all-out war, right?

Since it was so hard for either side to win, it must be said that they all gathered.]



However, there are also analyzes that the extreme confrontation did not bring the middle class participation in the main vote.



[Yoon Jong-bin/Professor of Political Science and Diplomacy at Myongji University: Negative and unfavorable elections, middle-class votes and votes had nowhere to go, right?

The mobilization confrontation between camps, I think, seems to have worked.]



Experts say that the 77% turnout in a democratic country that does not enforce compulsory voting is also a significant achievement. It added that it was necessary to establish.



(Video coverage: Kim Nam-seong, Video editing: Park Ki-duk)