{"id":54380,"date":"2025-06-04T08:42:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T08:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/lee-jae-myung-elected-s-korea-s-president\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T08:42:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T08:42:05","slug":"lee-jae-myung-elected-s-korea-s-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/lee-jae-myung-elected-s-korea-s-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Jae-myung elected S. Korea&#8217;s president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With 94.4 percent of the votes counted after midnight, Lee won 48.8 percent and his major rival Kim Moon-soo of the conservative People Power Party took 42.0 percent, the National Election Commission data showed.<\/p>\n<p>Even if all the remaining uncounted votes go to Kim, Lee will win the presidential by-election, confirming his victory.<\/p>\n<p>Local broadcaster JTBC and three terrestrial broadcasters including KBS, MBC and SBS forecast earlier that Lee was certain to be elected the country&#8217;s 21st president.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary voter turnout reached 79.4 percent, marking the highest in 28 years since the voting rate recorded 80.7 percent in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>Out of about 44.39 million eligible voters, some 35.24 million cast their ballots at 14,295 polling stations across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The voter turnout, which included those who participated in early voting last Thursday and Friday, was up from 77.1 percent tallied in the previous presidential election in 2022. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-88642\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/cel.jpg\" alt=\"Lee Jae-myung and his wife Kim Hye-kyung celebrate at the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, on June 4, 2025. 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