Input 2021.04.03 18:45 | Revision 2021.04.03 19:15
The pre-voting rate for the 4/7 re-election reached 20.54%, the highest ever re-election.
The Central Election Commission announced that in the pre-voting held from 6 a.m. on the 2nd to 6 p.m. on the 3rd, 2,4979,59 of 12,16,624 electors had finished voting.
The highest pre-voting rate for existing re-elections was 19.40% of the October 29 re-elections in 2014. The pre-voting rate for this re-election is 1.14 percentage points higher than this. It is higher than the 20.14% pre-voting rate for local elections in 2018. In the recent national election, it recorded a record high of 26.69% in the 21st general election in 2020.
If this trend is followed, the final turnout is expected to increase. The final turnout for local elections in 2018 was 60.2%. However, as the main voting day for re-election is on weekdays, and as the pre-voting system is in place, the’dispersion effect’ has increased, so the final turnout may not be higher than expected.
Both the opposition parties are interpreting that a high pre-voting rate will work in their favor. The Democratic Party expressed anticipation that the’Shy Jinbo’, which was not caught in the polls, was headed to the polls. Democratic Party Mayor Park Young-sun met with reporters after visiting Seongbuk-gu public youth housing this morning and said, “I am positively seeing the high pre-voting rate.”
On the other hand, the people’s strength analyzed that a large number of people in their 20s and 30s who were angry with the government and ruling party would have turned to the pre-voting hall. Candidate Se-hoon Oh said to reporters, “I think I am coming to the polling place to give a warning message to the government,” after pre-voting at the community center in Jayang 3-dong, Gwangjin-gu this morning.