The opposition Democratic Party won five races, three of them in Jeolla in the southwest, which is its perennial support base. (Both the mayor of Busan and the mayor of Seoul were incumbents elected during last year’s by-elections.) also won 11 other elections for mayors and governors, including mayor of Busan, the country’s second-largest city after Seoul. Yoon’s People Power Party, or P.P.P., won the mayoral race in Seoul, the capital.
Although this week’s elections were only held at the local level, the results were seen as an early referendum on Mr. Yoon, who won the presidential race by a razor-thin margin in March and was inaugurated just three weeks ago. The results on Wednesday were a decisive victory for Mr. Yoon’s conservative influence less than three months after he won the presidential election. SEOUL - President Yoon Suk-yeol’s governing party won 12 of the 17 races for big-city mayors and provincial governors in local elections held in South Korea on Wednesday, further expanding Mr.
