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The votes of Daejeon, Sejong, and Chungnam, which were chosen as fierce battlegrounds for this local election, all chose the power of the people.
In Daejeon, after a close battle, Candidate Jang-woo Lee succeeded in reclaiming the position of mayor.
Correspondent Lee Seong-hoon.
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an exit poll of three terrestrial broadcasters in Daejeon, who is sensitive to the flow of public opinion so that the market changes every election, 49.6% of Democratic Party candidate Heo Tae-jung and 50.4% of People's Power candidate Lee Jang-woo were predicted to be close within the margin of error, even in the process of counting the votes. It was a close fight until the last minute.
Candidate Jang-Woo Lee led Candidate Tae-Jeong Huh by a narrow margin of 1-2% from the beginning of the counting.
The gap between the two candidates was once narrowed by 0.51 percentage points due to Huh's fierce pursuit.
However, the turnaround did not happen in the end, and candidate Lee Jang-woo was elected mayor with more than 51% of the votes.
In the exit poll, the mayor of Sejong was also predicted to be a close match within the margin of error with 49.4% of Democratic Party candidate Lee Chun-hee and 50.6% of People's Strength candidate Choi Min-ho.
As predicted, the two candidates performed well throughout the ballot counting, and in the end, Candidate Minho Choi defeated Candidate Chunhee Lee by a 5 percentage point difference and was elected mayor of Sejong.
In Chungcheongnam-do, which drew attention as another match, in the exit poll, it was predicted that Kim Tae-heum, the People's Power candidate, was 8.2 percentage points ahead of Yang Seung-jo, the Democratic Party's candidate, in an exit poll.
Chungcheong-do, which had been playing the role of a 'casting boat' in every major election, turned to the conservatives and became the main factor in the supremacy of the people's power.