Key Takeaways
- Lee Jae-myung won the South Korea presidential election with 49.42% of the vote.
- Lee Jae-myung is a member of the Democratic Party of Korea.
- The South Korea’s National Election Commission announced the results of the presidential election on Tuesday.
Seoul: Lee Jae-myung, the Democratic Party of Korea candidate, won South Korea’s presidential election after 100% of the ballots were counted. This was announced by the South Korea’s National Election Commission on Tuesday.
Lee received 49.42% of the vote, while his rival from the ruling conservative People Power Party (PPP), Kim Moon-soo, won 41.15% of the vote, Lee Jun-seok of the New Reform Party secured 8.34%, Democratic Labor Party candidate Kwon Young-guk received 0.98% of the vote, and independent candidate Song Jin-ho secured 0.1% of the vote.
