The National Election Commission reported that the voter turnout as of 2 p.m. on the first day of early voting for the 21st presidential election, which is on the 29th, was 12.34%.

On April 29, the first day of early voting for the 21st presidential election, students in the 3rd year of high school at Samil Technical High School are voting at a polling place set up at the Yeonmu-dong Administrative Welfare Center in Jangan-gu, Suwon, Gyeonggi Province. /Courtesy of Yonhap News Agency

In the early voting that started at 6 a.m. that day, 5,476,054 people had voted out of a total of 44,391,871 eligible voters.

This is 1.86 percentage points higher than the early voting turnout rate (10.48%) during the same time in the 2022 20th presidential election and 2.77 percentage points higher than the same time turnout rate (9.57%) during last year's 22nd general election early voting.

The region with the highest turnout rate so far is Jeonnam at 23.48%, followed by Jeonbuk (21.52%), Gwangju (20.64%), and Sejong (14.07%).

The lowest turnout rate was recorded in Daegu at 8.36%. This was followed by Busan (10.65%), Ulsan (10.58%), and Gyeongbuk (10.76%).

In the capital region, the turnout rates were 11.83% in Seoul, 11.32% in Gyeonggi, and 11.44% in Incheon.

Early voting will take place over two days until the 30th. Voting hours are until 6 p.m., and voters must bring an identification card and visit the early voting site.

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