A woman casts her ballot at a polling station at a middle school in Chuncheon, Gangwon Province, Wednesday. Yonhap
Turnout in Wednesday's local elections stood at 7.4 percent as of 9 a.m., up 1.4 percentage points from the previous elections in 2022, the election watchdog said.
The National Election Commission (NEC) said 3.32 million out of 44.64 million eligible voters had cast their ballots, with the southeastern city of Daeju and the eastern province of Gangwon recording the highest turnout of 9.2 percent each so far.
The southwestern city of Gwangju had the lowest turnout at 4.8 percent.
Seoul's turnout stood at 6.9 percent, while turnout in the surrounding Gyeonggi Province was at 7.1 percent and that in Incheon, west of the capital, at 7.2 percent.
