Final Early Voting Turnout at 34.74%...Lower Than Previous Presidential Election

The National Election Commission announced on the 30th that the final early voting turnout for the 21st presidential election was tallied at 34.74%.

On the first day of early voting for the 21st presidential election on the 29th, a voter is casting a precious vote at the early voting station set up at Yeoksam 1-dong Community Center in Gangnam-gu, Seoul. 2025.5.29 Photo by Cho Yongjun

This is the second highest turnout since early voting was first implemented in nationwide elections in 2014.

During the 2022 presidential election, the early voting turnout reached 36.93%, which was the highest on record until then. The final early voting turnout this time is 2.19 percentage points lower than the previous presidential election.

According to provisional figures, a total of 15,423,607 out of 44,391,871 eligible voters participated in early voting, which was held from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. over two days.

By region, Jeonnam recorded the highest turnout at 56.50%, followed by Jeonbuk at 53.01%, Gwangju at 52.12%, and Sejong at 41.16%.

Daegu had the lowest turnout at 25.63%, followed by Busan at 30.37%, Gyeongbuk at 31.52%, and Gyeongnam at 31.71%.

In the Seoul metropolitan area, Seoul recorded 34.28%, Gyeonggi 32.88%, and Incheon 32.79%.