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Seoul.– The first polls released after the closing of polling stations in South Korea this Tuesday place opposition candidate Lee Jae-myung as the clear winner of the presidential elections, with 51.7% of the votes, followed by conservative Kim Moon-soo, with 39.3%, according to the joint survey by local broadcasters KBS, SBS and MBC.
The third most voted candidate would be Lee Jun-seok, from the New Reform Party, with 7.7%. The survey was conducted among more than 80,000 voters in 325 polling stations across the country and has a margin of error of 0.8 percentage points, more or less, with a confidence level of 95%.
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Other exit polls offered similar estimations. JTBC projected that Lee would get 50.6% of the votes, compared to Kim's 39.4%. Channel A placed Lee at 51.1%, versus Kim's 38.9%, and MBN estimated a closer victory for Lee, with 49.2%, compared to Kim's 41.7%.
These results match the latest polls published before the voting, which already showed the progressive Lee with an advantage of more than twelve percentage points for these early presidential elections held this Tuesday in South Korea, following the dismissal of former President Yoon Suk-yeol as a result of his martial law.
The National Electoral Commission has begun the vote count after the polling stations closed at 8:00 p.m. local time (11:00 GMT) and the winner's name is expected to be known during the night.
