SEOUL, Democratic Party (DP) candidate Lee Jae-myung will garner around 50 percent of the vote, leading People Power Party candidate Kim Moon-soo by at least 7.5 percentage points, four exit polls showed Tuesday.
A JTBC exit poll projected that Lee will garner 50.6 percent of the vote against Kim’s 39.4 percent, while a Channel A exit poll showed Lee leading Kim 51.1 percent to 38.9 percent.
An MBN exit poll projected that Lee will win 49.2 percent of the vote against Kim’s 41.7 percent, while a joint exit poll by KBS, MBC and SBS showed Lee leading Kim 51.7 percent to 39.3 percent.
Lee Jun-seok, the candidate of the New Reform Party, was projected to win 7.9 percent, 8.7 percent, 7.8 percent and 7.7 percent in the JTBC, Channel A, MBN and KBS-MBC-SBS exit polls, respectively.
The JTBC poll had a margin of error of 0.9 percentage point while the Channel A poll had a margin of error of 0.93 percent point, both at the 95 percent confidence level.
The KBS-MBC-SBS exit poll’s margin of error was 0.8 percentage point at the 95 percent confidence level.
DP campaign officials and leaders who were gathered in a situation room at the National Assembly erupted in applause and cheers when the exit poll results were announced.
“I believe the sovereign people have passed a severe judgment on the insurrection regime,” Rep. Park Chan-dae, the DP election committee leader, told KBS.
“These are exit polls, so they are projections, but we will remain alert until our election is certain and look at what the people’s judgment is, what the people’s decision is.”
