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This election was recorded as the most closely contested election in history.

Until now, the difference between the 390,000 votes in the election of President Kim Dae-jung was the smallest, but in this presidential election, the difference was about 240,000 votes.



Correspondent Kim A-young.



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The 15th presidential election in 1997, when a horizontal regime change took place.



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The fates of Candidate Dae-jung Kim of the New Politics National Assembly and Candidate Hoe-chang Lee of the Grand National Party were divided by only 39557 votes and a 1.53 percentage point difference in turnout.



This was the only time the difference between the 1st and 2nd place candidates fell below 500,000 votes, and that record was broken for the first time in 25 years.



The difference in votes between the elected Yoon Seok-yeol and Lee Jae-myung was 247,77.



Even compared to the results of the 15th presidential election, it was 140,000 fewer votes.



The number of 240,000 is similar to the number of residents in Geoje-si, Gyeongsangnam-do or Geumcheon-gu, Seoul.



In particular, the dramatic contrast was greater as President-elect Yoon achieved a change of government with the smallest margin in five years after President Moon Jae-in won the 19th presidential election just before, by a margin of more than 5.57 million votes, the most in history.



The difference in the percentage of votes also added a new record.



The difference in the percentage of votes between President-elect Yoon and Candidate Lee was 0.73 percentage points.



This is the first time in the history of presidential elections that the difference in the percentage of votes between the first and second places has fallen below 1 percentage point.



[Lee Jae-myung / Democratic Party Presidential Candidate: (You did your best and achieved results) Lee Jae-myung failed to fill the missing 0.7% (points)



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It also set a record for the highest percentage of voters who did not choose a winner.



(Video editing: Kim Byung-jik)