2024-07-20 10:27:00
ⓒ Newsis candidate Lee Jae-myung, who is running for re-election as leader of the Democratic Party, received regarding 90% of the vote on the 20th, the first day of the local circuit primaries, and started his personal campaign system.
On this day, the Democratic Party held a series of joint speeches in Jeju Island and Incheon and announced the results of the online voting of rights party members for the circuit primaries to elect the party leader and top committee members.
After adding up the vote share in the two regions, candidate Lee received 19,858 votes, overwhelmingly first with 90.75% of the vote. Following candidate Lee were candidate Kim Doo-gwan (1,742 votes, 7.96%) and candidate Kim Ji-soo (282 votes, 1.29%).
In the first Jeju regional primary election, Rep. Lee received a support rate of 82.5% (4,824 votes). In Incheon, where candidate Lee is located, he won the support of members of the Rights Party and received a support rate of 93.77% (15,016 votes). .
The focus of attention inside and outside the party is whether candidate Lee can break through the final vote share in the 2022 election. Candidate Lee’s vote rate at that time was 77.77%, the highest vote rate in the history of the Democratic Party. First, there are assessments that candidate Lee received enough votes to gain momentum from the first day of the primary.
In the race for the Supreme Committee, the only outside candidate Zheng Bongzhu received the highest number of votes, leading other candidates in Jeju and Incheon. Candidate Zheng’s cumulative vote rate was 21.98% (9,620 votes).
The cumulative voting rates are, in order, Kim Byung-joo (6,814 votes, 15.57%), Jun Hyun-hee (6,019 votes, 13.75%), Kim Min-seok (5,456 votes, 12.47%), Lee Yeon-joo (5,445 votes, 12.44%) and Han Jun-ho 10.62%), Kang Sun-woo (2,911 votes, 6.65%) followed by Min Hyung-bae (2,850 votes, 6.51%). Democrats will elect their top five members this time.
A tight electoral battle is expected to win over the party, as some top council candidates appear close. At this National Congress, the proportion of right-wing party members was 56%, higher than in previous years.
A total of 31,921 voters of the Jeju Island Party Rights Party participated in the online voting, 5,869 of whom participated, with a voting participation rate of 18.39%. A total of 42,403 voters participated in the Incheon City Party Rights Online Voting, of which 16,013 participated, with a voting participation rate of 37.76%.
The ARS vote will be held on August 17 and 18 for members of the Right Party who are unable to vote online.
The 15 regional circuit primaries will end in Seoul on the 17th of next month. At the National Party Congress to be held on the 18th of next month, one party representative and five Supreme Committee members will be elected through delegate voting (online). The result was 14% of delegate votes (online), 56% of rights party member votes (online + ARS), and 30% of public opinion polls (East Asia Net reporter polaris27@donga).
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