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1st LD Writethru: Moon Jae-in wins sweeping victory in S.Korean presidential election

Xinhua, May 9, 2017 Adjust font size:

Liberal Moon Jae-in won a sweeping victory in South Korea's presidential by-election, vote counting results showed Wednesday.

With 88.6 percent of votes counted as of 2:47 a.m. local time (1747 GMT Tuesday), Moon gained 40.3 percent, according to the national election commission.

Hong Joon-pyo of the conservative Liberty Korea Party won 25.1 percent. Even if the remaining uncounted votes go to Hong, he will not defeat Moon. It confirmed Moon's victory with certainty.

Ahn Cheol-soo of the centrist People's Party garnered 21.5 percent, trailed by Yoo Seong-min of the conservative Righteous Party with 6.6 percent.

Sim Sang-jung of the minor liberal Justice Party had 6.0 percent support. Endit