Democratic Party Elects Hyungryong Park as Daegu City Branch Chair and Oh Jungki as Gyeongbuk Provincial Chair

The Democratic Party Daegu City Branch held its regular party members' convention at Inter-Burgo EXCO Hotel in Suseong-gu, Daegu, at 1:30 PM on August 9, and elected Hyungryong Park as the new Chair of the Daegu City Branch.

In this election for the Daegu City Branch Chair, five candidates competed: Junhyeong Lee (candidate no. 1), Bokyung Kim (candidate no. 2), Jaehun Seo (candidate no. 3), Hyungryong Park (candidate no. 4), and Jaeho Kwon (candidate no. 5).

The Democratic Party Daegu Chapter elected candidate Hyungyong Park (right) as the Chairman of the Daegu Chapter.

Voting was conducted through ARS voting by full party members and online voting by national delegates. Out of a total of 13,366 eligible party members, 5,608 participated in the ARS voting, resulting in a turnout rate of 41.96%. In the national delegate online voting, 368 out of 558 participated, which amounts to a 65.95% turnout rate.

Summing up the results, candidate Hyungryong Park garnered 50.74% of the final vote share and was elected as the next Chair of the Daegu City Branch.

Upon being elected, the new Chair, Hyungryong Park, stated, "I will build a competent and strong Democratic Party of Daegu capable of standing up to the People Power Party. I will demonstrate to the citizens of Daegu that the Democratic Party is a clear alternative," adding, "For the next general election, we will pool all our resources to secure one constituency seat and two proportional representation seats."

The Democratic Party Gyeongbuk Provincial Party also elected Oh Jungki, former Senior Administrator for Balanced Development at the Presidential Secretariat, as the next Provincial Party Chair on the same day.

In the Gyeongbuk Provincial Party Chair election, four candidates ran: Junghoon Lee (former special advisor to the Democratic Party leader for Gyeongbuk), Jungki Oh (former Senior Administrator for Balanced Development at the Presidential Secretariat), Yongchae Jeong (current Gyeongbuk Provincial Assembly member), and Wonhee Cho (current Democratic Party proportional representative National Assembly candidate).

Candidate Oh Jungki received a combined final vote share of 68.63% from party members and delegates.

Candidate Oh Joong-ki was elected as the chairman of the Democratic Party's Gyeongbuk Provincial Party.

In his acceptance speech, Oh Jungki, the new Gyeongbuk Provincial Party Chair, said, "I will build a robust Provincial Party that will lead the Democratic Party to victory in the upcoming general elections and support the success of the Lee Jae-myung administration, continually developing the Gyeongbuk branch upon a strong foundation."

Born in Pohang, Oh Jungki previously served as Senior Administrator for Balanced Development at the Presidential Secretariat of the Moon Jae-in administration in 2017 and as CEO of Korea Expressway Corporation's Facility Management Division in 2020. He has run for National Assembly four times, and has been a gubernatorial candidate in Gyeongbuk three times (2014, 2018, and the upcoming 2026 local elections).

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