The National Election Commission announced on the 22nd that it has disclosed the income and expenditure details of election costs incurred by political parties, candidates, and campaign committees that participated in the 21st presidential election.
The total amount of election costs used by each political party and candidate in this presidential election is 103.3 billion won. The Democratic Party of Korea, with candidate Lee Jae-myung, spent 53.51661 billion won, using 90.9% of the election cost limit (58.85281 billion won), while the People Power Party, represented by candidate Kim Moon-soo, recorded 44.99646 billion won or 76.4%. Both parties will receive a full reimbursement from the national treasury as they gained more than 15% of the total valid votes.
The election cost expenditures for other candidates are as follows: ▲Reform Party candidate Lee Jun-seok 2.83564 billion won (4.8%) ▲Democratic Labor Party candidate Kwon Young-guk 990.13 million won (1.7%) ▲Independent candidate Hwang Kyo-ahn 860.85 million won (1.5%) ▲Liberty Unification Party candidate Koo Joo-wa 75.97 million won (0.1%) ▲Independent candidate Song Jin-ho 60.47 million won (0.1%). Candidates Hwang Kyo-ahn and Koo Joo-wa withdrew before the election.
The amount of funds raised was highest for the Democratic Party of Korea at 2.931 billion won, followed by candidate Kwon Young-guk at 2.219 billion won. Candidate Kwon drew attention as approximately 1.3 billion won was concentrated in donations just one day after a low vote rate was predicted in the exit poll on election day. Candidate Lee Jun-seok raised 1.286 billion won, Kim Moon-soo raised 1.162 billion won, and Hwang Kyo-ahn raised 1.149 billion won.