Final Voter Turnout Expected to Surpass 21st General Election
Highest Ever for Same Time Slot Since 15th General Election
Jeonnam Highest at 63.7%, Jeju Lowest at 55.3%
The voter turnout for the 22nd general election reached 59.3% as of 3 p.m. on the 10th. Compared to the 21st general election held in 2020, this is 2.8 percentage points higher at the same time.
The National Election Commission announced the 22nd general election turnout as of 3 p.m. on the 10th. Based on the current trend, the final turnout is expected to be higher than the previous election.
Voting began simultaneously at polling stations nationwide at 6 a.m. on the day, with 26,259,770 voters having cast their ballots out of a total of 44,280,011 eligible voters. This includes some early votes cast on the 5th and 6th (all in-district votes plus out-of-district votes received by mail as of 3 p.m.) and some absentee, overseas, and mobile votes (mail arrivals as of 3 p.m.).
On the 10th, the 22nd National Assembly election day, voters visited the 7th polling station in Jayangje 3-dong, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul to cast their votes. Photo by Jinhyung Kang aymsdream@
The turnout at 3 p.m. is 2.8 percentage points higher than the 56.5% turnout at the same time during the 21st general election in 2020. Since the 15th general election in 1996, when turnout by time slot began to be recorded, this is the highest turnout at 3 p.m. Previously, the 21st general election held the record for the highest turnout at this time.
Before including early voting, the turnout for this election was lower than the previous one, but the high early voting rate pushed the record higher. The early voting rate for this election was 31.28%, which is 4.59 percentage points higher than the previous election’s 26.69%.
The 3 p.m. turnout for this election is 8.8 percentage points lower than the 68.1% turnout at the same time during the 2022 20th presidential election. If the final turnout for this election surpasses the previous general election, it will be the highest turnout in 32 years since the 14th general election in 1992, which had a turnout of 71.9%. Historical general election turnouts are as follows: 15th - 63.9%, 16th - 57.2%, 17th - 60.6%, 18th - 46.1%, 19th - 54.2%, 20th - 58.0%, 21st - 66.2%.
The region with the highest turnout as of 3 p.m. is Jeonnam at 63.7%, followed by Sejong (62.7%), Jeonbuk and Gwangju (61.4%), and Seoul (60.6%). The lowest turnout was recorded in Jeju at 55.3%, followed by Daegu (55.8%), Incheon (57.5%), and Ulsan, Chungnam, and Chungbuk (58.4%). Gyeonggi recorded 58.6%.
The election will continue until 6 p.m. on the day, and voters must bring their ID and vote at the polling station in their registered residential district. The time-based turnout officially announced by the National Election Commission is based on voting data collected from 253 city, county, and district election commissions.
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