23.51% of voters already cast ballots during last week’s early voting Voters cast their ballots for Wednesday's local elections at a polling station set up at the Maebongsan Badminton Gymnasium in Seoul. (Yonhap) Voter turnout for Wednesday’s local elections and parliamentary by-elections stood at 11 percent as of 10 a.m., according to the National Election Commission.Polling stations opened nationwide at 6 a.m., at 14,288 polling stations nationwide.Of the country’s 44,649,908 eligible voters, 23.51 percent, or about 10.4 million people, have already cast their ballots during the two-day early voting period last week.The 10 a.m. turnout figure was 2.3 percentage points higher than the 8.7 percent recorded at the same point in the 2022 local elections. The figure does not yet include early voting.The early voting turnout, which was the highest ever recorded in a local election, will be reflected in the overall turnout figures starting at 1 p.m. Voters wait in line at a polling station in Daldong, Nam-gu, Ulsan, Wednesday. (Yonhap) Polls close at 6 p.m., concluding a nationwide vote that will determine the makeup of local governments for the next four years.Voters are choosing 16 mayors and governors, 16 education superintendents, 227 local government heads and roughly 4,000 local council members. Elections are also being held in 14 constituencies to fill vacant National Assembly seats, including in Incheon, Gyeonggi Province, Daegu and Busan.