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숫자로 보는 총선 투표 용지 '51.7cm,' 지역구 경쟁률 39년만 최저

Tomorrow, voters will be heading to polling stations in South Korea, to cast their ballots to select a new 300-member National Assembly.
Voters will be given a ballot paper that's even longer than the previous election in 2020, making it the longest-ever ballot paper used in the country.
Our Bae Eun-ji breaks the election down into key numbers.

The general election is South Korea's biggest political event this year.
You might be wondering how it works, and what's different in 2024.
Let's take a look at the election by the numbers.
The voting age in South Korea is '18,' after the country lowered the age limit from 19 in December 2019.
Citizens born before April 11th, 2006 are eligible to vote in this year's general election.
This means more than 44 million Koreans will be heading to almost 15-thousand different polling stations across the country that will be open from 6AM to 6PM.
There, voters will receive two ballot papers.
One is to vote for a candidate running for their constituency, and the other is to vote for the party they support for the proportional representation seats.
This year, the ballot papers for proportional representation seats are the "longest-ever" used in Korea.
It's 51.7 cm long, as 38 parties have registered to battle over the proportional representation seats.
This is even longer than the last election in 2020, when the ballot paper was over 48cm long, with 35 parties running.
Before that, in 2016 and in 2012, the papers were about 30cm.
Just like the 2020 election, the votes will have to be counted by hand, as electronic counters cannot read papers this long.

Moving on to the cadidates running for individual districts, the average competition rate stands at around 2.8 : 1 this year.
This is the lowest rate in 39 years.
In 2020, the rate was 4.4 : 1.
Of the 699 candidates that have registered at 254 districts nationwide, 86% are men, leaving women as an unrepresentative minority.
The average age of the candidates is 56.8, two years older than in 2020.
Those in their 50s took up nearly half of the candidates, followed by those in their 60s and 40s --the youngest candidate is 28 years old, whereas the oldest is 85, born in 1938.
By jobs, 65% of the candidates were professional politicians.
8 percent were attorneys and 5% were professors or educators.
Doctors and pharmacists accounted for about 1% of the total.
The vote count for this year's election is expected to take about two more hours than usual, and we'll likely have the final results at around 2AM the next day.

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2024-04-09, 12:00 (KST)