The Korea Times
A year after Lee Jae Myung won the presidency in a snap election, the nation went to the polls again Wednesday to pick its leaders for local offices. With early voting reaching a record high of 23.51 percent of all eligible voters, total voter turnout stood at 60.7 percent. Voters cast their ballots to elect people for 4,227 posts nationwide, including 16 metropolitan and provincial heads of government, as well as local mayors, councilors and education superintendents, with the final results favoring candidates from the ruling Democratic Party of Korea (DPK). Joint exit polls conducted by the nation's three main broadcasters — SBS, KBS and MBC — announced at 6 p.m. that DPK candidates were in the lead in 11 races for the nation's 16 major metropolitan and provincial offices. The main opposition People Power Party (PPP) was definitively leading only in the North Gyeongsang Province gubernatorial race, with Lee Cheol-woo of the PPP garnering an estimated 69.7 percent of the vote according to the 6 p.m. exit poll. In the Seoul mayor race, DPK candidate Chong Won-o was leading over incu
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