03/06/2025
Lee Jae-myung Elected as South Korea’s 21st President
Lee Jae-myung has officially won the 21st Presidential Election of South Korea, marking a major shift in power just three years after the country’s last political crisis and calls for accountability over the “martial law scandal.”
According to the National Election Commission (NEC), the final vote count concluded at 5:02 AM on June 4, just 8 hours and 22 minutes after ballot counting began. Lee secured 17,287,513 votes, winning 49.42% of the total vote share.
Lee’s closest rival, Kim Moon-soo of the People Power Party, received 14,395,639 votes, or 41.15% of the vote.
Vote difference: 2,891,874 votes
Vote percentage gap: 8.27 percentage points
This marks a decisive victory for Lee, although he fell slightly short of the absolute majority (50%), missing it by 0.58 percentage points.
Lee Jun-seok, of the newly formed Reform New Party, came in third with 2,917,523 votes (8.34%).
Kwon Young-kook, the candidate from the Democratic Labor Party, received 344,150 votes (0.98%).
Independent candidate Song Jin-ho earned 35,797 votes (0.10%).
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