Voter turnout in the presidential election was 2.1% as of 7 a.m.… Departure is lower than 19

The National Election Commission announced that as of 7 am today (9th), the turnout in the 20th presidential election was 2.1%.

According to the website of the National Election Commission, 942,61 of the 44,197,692 general election voters completed their voting in one hour in the voting that started at 14,464 polling stations nationwide at 6 am today.

This is 0.4 percentage points lower than the 2.5% turnout in the same time period in the 2017 19th presidential election.

This did not include 36.93% of the early voting turnout conducted on the last 4-5 days.

Early voting turnout is calculated from the turnout that is released at 1pm.

The region with the highest voter turnout was Daegu and the lowest was Jeonnam.

The voter turnout that the National Election Commission announces on its website around the hour every hour is based on the turnout collected 10 minutes ago from across the country.