Democratic Party Honam Region Member Vote: Kim Minseok Achieves Landslide Win with 57.54%, Secures Majority in Total Count

Kim Minseok achieved a landslide victory in the Jeonnam-Gwangju and Jeonbuk regional primaries, held ahead of the August 17 Democratic Party national convention to elect new party leadership.

On the 15th, the Democratic Party Central Election Management Committee held a joint speech event in Jeonnam-Gwangju and Jeonbuk and subsequently announced the voting results for party members with voting rights in the two areas.

Three Democratic Party leadership candidates take the stage at joint debate in Jeonbuk. Yonhap News

Out of 506,204 eligible voting members in the two regions, 242,089 cast their votes. This figure combines the results of the online voting held on August 11-12 and the ARS (automated response system) voting on August 13-14.

Candidate Kim received 139,307 votes (57.54%) in the Honam region, ranking first. Candidate Jeong Cheongrae obtained 79,033 votes (32.64%), and Song Younggil received 23,749 votes (9.81%).

In the Supreme Council election, which selects the top 5 out of 8 candidates, Park Sunwon came in first with 89,728 votes. Next were: Seo Mihwa (81,651 votes), Choi Minhee (71,595 votes), Kim Yong (65,998 votes), and Lee Seongyun (63,173 votes). The subsequent rankings were Han Minsoo (54,454 votes), Im Mi-ae (36,785 votes), and Kim Youngho (20,794 votes).

Kim also secured a majority in the accumulated vote percentage. Thus far, Kim leads with a cumulative 52.21% (235,128 votes), followed by Jeong Cheongrae at 38.14% (171,768 votes), and Song Younggil at 9.65% (43,464 votes).

As a result, the difference in vote percentage between Kim and Jeong has widened to 14.07 percentage points, equating to a margin of 63,360 votes. After the second week of primaries, the gap between the two candidates had been only 1.48 percentage points (3,086 votes).

For the Supreme Council accumulated vote percentages, Assemblyman Park Sunwon leads with 17.70%, surpassing Assemblywoman Choi Minhee (17.33%). Assemblywoman Seo Mihwa, former Deputy Director of the Democratic Research Institute Kim Yong, and Assemblyman Han Minsoo respectively entered the top five with 15.65%, 13.18%, and 12.70%.

Meanwhile, the final result—which factors in 70% from the votes of delegates and party members with voting rights and 30% from a public opinion poll—will be announced on the 17th.

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