Georg Ebner
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Post by Georg Ebner on Mar 9, 2022 6:01:00 GMT
Presidential elections were held today, the PollingStations will close in 3 hours, results will be released (because of CovidCases) 1.5 hours later.
In OpinionPolls Yoon, the Conservative, has usually been leading by 1-5% (few times the DPP-candidate was minimally ahead). I personally expect the margin to be rather at the higher end.
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Post by Richard Cromwell on Mar 9, 2022 11:13:27 GMT
I was very interested in (and sympathetic to) Lee Jae-myung's candidacy, though apparently didn't keep a mental note of when the election was actually going to be held.
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Post by Defenestrated Fipplebox on Mar 9, 2022 12:21:37 GMT
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Post by minionofmidas on Mar 9, 2022 14:16:13 GMT
Another exit poll has the Democrats winning 48.4-47.7.
May be a long night in Korea...
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Post by Andrew_S on Mar 9, 2022 14:27:48 GMT
Election night programme in South Korea.
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Post by minionofmidas on Mar 9, 2022 15:20:29 GMT
With 40% of the vote counted, Democrat a point ahead. Of course that's useless as I don't know where the outstanding votes are.
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Post by minionofmidas on Mar 9, 2022 16:54:38 GMT
Almost 80% counted, Yoon ahead by a point now. Unless a lot of the remaining vote is from Jeolla (unlikely) he should have won.
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Post by rcronald on Mar 9, 2022 17:39:02 GMT
Looking at what remains of the vote, I think that Yoon has narrowly won the election. (All of South Jeolla is in and there is more left to be counted in the Sout GB East then the South west)
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Post by rcronald on Mar 9, 2022 17:49:37 GMT
Yoon seems to have over-performed the exit polls by a pretty wide margin in South Gyeongsang.
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Post by minionofmidas on Mar 9, 2022 18:13:53 GMT
93% in, .88 lead, this ought to be over.
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Post by rcronald on Mar 9, 2022 18:25:33 GMT
I think that all of Jeolla is in.
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Post by rcronald on Mar 9, 2022 18:34:09 GMT
I officially project Yoon as president elect of South Korea
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Post by rcronald on Mar 9, 2022 18:43:41 GMT
Why is Jeolla so left wing compared to the rest of the country?
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Post by frankyank on Mar 9, 2022 18:49:08 GMT
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Post by rcronald on Mar 9, 2022 18:49:40 GMT
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Mar 9, 2022 22:11:31 GMT
I officially project Yoon as president elect of South Korea Alex Salmond, Ian Blackford, Rev Stuart Campbell, Nicola Sturgeon, do you hear me? Your boy took a hell of a beating
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Post by Forfarshire Conservative on Mar 10, 2022 2:43:41 GMT
Yoon's wife's attacks on journalists are disturbing for a relativley young democracy, but his vehemently hardline attitude against the North, his coolness towards Beijing and his desire to mend relations with Tokyo are all positives and I'm glad he won.
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Georg Ebner
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Post by Georg Ebner on Mar 10, 2022 2:58:09 GMT
In OpinionPolls Yoon, the Conservative, has usually been leading by 1-5% (few times the DPP-candidate was minimally ahead). I personally expect the margin to be rather at the higher end. I was clearly very wrong here: Was aware of the problems of Yoon, but expected more Dem. to stay at home due to DisSatifaction with the InCumbent. As usual, the ExitPolls performed best, one of the 2 was quite perfect (nota bene: the UnDecideds were added up to the candidate-%s):
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Post by rcronald on Mar 10, 2022 6:24:59 GMT
I officially project Yoon as president elect of South Korea Alex Salmond, Ian Blackford, Rev Stuart Campbell, Nicola Sturgeon, do you hear me? Your boy took a hell of a beating Lee is a supporter of Scottish independence?
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Post by minionofmidas on Mar 10, 2022 7:02:53 GMT
Alex Salmond, Ian Blackford, Rev Stuart Campbell, Nicola Sturgeon, do you hear me? Your boy took a hell of a beating Lee is a supporter of Scottish independence? I find nothing whatsoever to imply that, but then there'd nothing to imply he took 'a hell of a beating' either, so maybe the reference is to some obscure fringe candidate? More interesting: when you click through presidential maps on wikipedia, the pattern of the conservatives winning Seoul and the democrats the rest of the northwest (however narrowly) is a completely new one. When these areas have split before it was always the other way round.
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