2022 South Korean Presidential Election
The narrowest win9 March 2022 · The alternation era
Presidential elections were held in South Korea on 9 March 2022. Under the South Korean constitution, presidents are restricted to a single five-year term, meaning that incumbent president Moon Jae-in was ineligible to run for a second term.
President before
Moon Jae-in
Democratic
Elected President
Yoon Suk Yeol
People Power
Winning share
48.6%
Turnout
77.1%
The result
| Yoon Suk Yeol | People Power Party | 16,394,815 | 48.56% |
| Lee Jae Myung | Democratic Party | 16,147,738 | 47.83% |
| Sim Sang-jung | Justice Party | 803,358 | 2.38% |
| Huh Kyung-young | National Revolutionary Party | 281,481 | 0.83% |
| Kim Jae-yeon | Progressive Party | 37,366 | 0.11% |
| Cho Won-jin | Our Republican Party | 25,972 | 0.08% |
| Oh Jun-ho | Basic Income Party | 18,105 | 0.05% |
| Kim Min-chan | Korean Wave Alliance | 17,305 | 0.05% |
| Lee Gyeong-hee | Korean Unification | 11,708 | 0.03% |
| Lee Baek-yun | Labor Party | 9,176 | 0.03% |
| Kim Gyeong-jae | New Liberal Democratic Union | 8,317 | 0.02% |
| Ok Un-ho | Saenuri Party | 4,970 | 0.01% |