[Breaking] Minseok Kim Takes 1st Place in Honam with 57.54%... Surpasses Majority in Cumulative Vote

Gap with Jeong Cheongrae widens from 1.48%p to 14.07%p
Final selection on August 17 after Gyeonggi and Seoul primaries on the 16th

In the Honam-region voting of rights party members for the Democratic Party of Korea's August 17 National Convention party leadership election, candidate Minseok Kim secured a majority to take first place. The cumulative vote gap between Kim and candidate Cheongrae Jeong widened from the previous 1.48 percentage points to 14.07 percentage points.

Sobyeong Hun, chairman of the Democratic Party's Central Election Management Committee, announced the voting results for rights party members in Gwangju·Jeonnam and Jeonbuk after the joint speech rally for party representative and supreme council members held at Wonkwang University, Iksan, Jeonbuk, on August 15.

Democratic Party leader candidate Minseok Kim gave a policy speech on the 15th at the Democratic Party's joint speech meeting for party leaders and supreme council members held at the Naju Comprehensive Sports Park Multipurpose Gymnasium in Naju, Gwangju, Jeonnam. Yonhap News

Combining the results from both regions, candidate Kim received 139,307 votes (57.54%). Candidate Jeong received 79,033 votes (32.65%), while candidate Younggil Song recorded 23,749 votes (9.81%). The difference in votes between Kim and Jeong is 60,274.

In Gwangju·Jeonnam, Kim received 86,558 votes (57.04%), outpacing Jeong who secured 48,324 votes (31.84%). Song received 16,874 votes (11.12%). In Jeonbuk as well, Kim achieved a majority with 52,749 votes (58.39%). Jeong received 30,709 votes (34.00%), and Song collected 6,875 votes (7.61%).

Reflecting the Honam primary results, the cumulative vote rates stand at Kim 52.21%, Jeong 38.14%, and Song 9.65%.

The Honam-region vote was conducted online from the 11th to the 12th, and through an automated response system (ARS) from the 13th to the 14th. In Gwangju·Jeonnam, out of 314,184 eligible voters, 151,756 participated for a turnout of 48.30%. The turnout in Jeonbuk was 47.04%, with 90,333 out of 192,020 voters casting ballots.

The Democratic Party will announce the results of the Gyeonggi·Seoul primary on August 16. For the party representative election, the final result will be revealed at the national convention on August 17, combining 70% from the delegate/rights party member votes and 30% from a public opinion poll. In this party representative election, a preferential voting system is applied, where voters rank the three candidates. If no candidate receives a majority of first-choice votes, the runner-up votes are combined to determine the winner.

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