Einar H. Dyvik
Research expert covering Nordics and global data for society, economy, and politics
Presidential election in South Korea 2022 - statistics & facts
On March 9, 2022, South Korea elected the main conservative party’s Yoon Suk Yeol as its new president to serve the country for the next five years beginning from May 10, 2022. While the campaign to succeed the incumbent President Moon Jae-in was a fierce neck-and-neck race between former Prosecutor General Yoon of the main opposition People Power Party (PPP) and former Gyeonggi Province Governor Lee Jae-myung of the ruling Democratic Party (DP), Yoon ultimately won by a slim margin of 0.8 percentage points over Lee. Amid another surge of COVID-19 infections, voter turnout reached over 77 percent with approximately 34 million out of around 44.2 million eligible voters casting ballots.
