The vote is widely seen as an assessment of President Lee Jae-myung’s first year in office
Voting had largely closed in the first nationwide ballot since Lee’s snap presidential election victory last year.
The Democratic Party candidate was projected to win Seoul, the country’s capital and biggest political prize, while the party was also ahead in Gyeonggi province and Incheon, the two other major constituencies in the greater Seoul area.
But Busan, South Korea’s second-largest city and a conservative stronghold, was rated too close to call, with the Democratic and People Power Party candidates in a tight race, the exit poll showed.
Source: News - South China Morning Post
