Busan vote recount set for July 23 in razor-thin council race

Election officials will hand-count every ballot on July 23 after a Democratic Party candidate challenged a 26-vote loss in Busan's Buk District 1 constituency race.

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Vote counting is underway at a counting center set up inside Seoul National University after the local elections on June 3 in Gwanak District, southern Seoul.

A vote recount is set for July 23 in the race for the Busan Metropolitan Council's Buk District 1 constituency where the winning margin was just 26 votes in the recent June 3 local elections.

The recount will take place at 1:30 p.m. in Busan's election commission's main conference room, in response to a petition to invalidate the election filed by Mun Yeong-nam of the Democratic Party, the commission said Wednesday. 

The recount will be conducted by hand, with every ballot re-examined individually.

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In the election, Kang Young-doo of the People Power Party won 19,351 votes, or 50.03 percent, narrowly defeating Mun, who received 19,325 votes, or 49.96 percent — a margin of just 26 votes.

The Buk District 1 constituency election recorded 40,097 total votes, including 1,421 invalid ballots.

Mun's campaign filed the petition arguing that the ruling on invalid ballots was not sufficiently verified and that the proportion of invalid votes was relatively higher than in other districts.

Busan's election commission plans to issue a ruling on the invalidation petition based on the results of the recount.


BY PARK JONG-SUH [[email protected]]

This article was originally written in Korean and translated by a bilingual reporter with the help of generative AI tools. It was then edited by a native English-speaking editor. All AI-assisted translations are reviewed and refined by our newsroom.

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