As of 5 p.m. on the 3rd, turnout in the 9th nationwide local elections stood at 57.4%.

According to the National Election Commission website, as of 5 p.m. the nationwide turnout was tallied at 57.4%. In the 11 hours since polls opened at 6 a.m., 15,052,860 people had voted nationwide.

Including 10,564,571 early voters, a total of 25,617,431 people have voted. The total number of registered voters is 44,649,908.

At the same time point, this is 9.8 percentage points higher than the turnout for the 8th local elections in 2022 (47.6%).

By region, South Jeolla was highest at 63.6%, and Gwangju was lowest at 51.5%. Seoul 59.1%, Busan 58.1%, Daegu 59.9%, Incheon 54.6%, Gwangju 51.5%, Daejeon 56.3%, Ulsan 59.9%, Sejong 58.6%, Gyeonggi 54.6%, Gangwon 61.9%, North Chungcheong 56.4%, South Chungcheong 55.8%, North Jeolla 60.2%, South Jeolla 63.6%, North Gyeongsang 57.8%, South Gyeongsang 60.9%, Jeju 53.8%.

Turnout figures for early voting and overseas·shipboard·home voting have been included starting with the update released at 1 p.m. The turnout the election commission publishes on its website around the top of each hour is based on figures compiled nationwide 10 minutes earlier.

At 6 a.m. the main vote for the 9th local elections began at 14,288 polling stations nationwide to elect a total of 4,227 officials: 16 metropolitan/provincial governors, 16 superintendents of education, 227 city·county·district basic-level heads, 933 metropolitan council members, and 3,035 basic council members. By-elections to fill vacant National Assembly seats are also being held simultaneously in 14 constituencies, including Pyeongtaek-e in Gyeonggi and Buk-gap in Busan.

Unlike early voting, the main vote, held from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. today, can be cast only at the polling station for the registered address. Polling station locations can be checked via the voting information notice delivered to each household, the voter list inquiry system of district·city·county offices, or the election commission website via the polling place finder link service.

Voters must bring an ID with a photo, such as a resident registration card, passport, driver license, or youth card, or another photo-bearing ID issued by a government or public institution. For mobile IDs, stored images such as screenshots are not accepted; verification is done on site by running the app.