Kim Min-seok wins a commanding 57.54% in Honam, the key battleground ··· cumulative vote surpasses 52% - 경향신문
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Jeong Cheong-rae 32.64%·Song Young-gil 9.81% vote share
사진 크게보기 Democratic Party chair candidates Kim Min-seok and Jeong Cheong-rae attend the North Jeolla joint rally for party leader and Supreme Council candidates at Wonkwang University Gymnasium in Iksan, North Jeolla, on the 15th, where candidate Jeong finishes presenting his platform and shakes hands with candidate Kim. Yonhap News
On the 13th, after completing the Honam leg of the Democratic Party 8·17 national convention regional primaries, party leader candidate Rep. Kim Min-seok took first place with a cumulative vote share of 52.21%, securing a majority. Rep. Jeong Cheong-rae followed with 38.14%, and Rep. Song Young-gil with 9.65%.
So Byung-hoon, chair of the Democratic Party Central Election Commission, announced that in the tally for the South Jeolla-Gwangju and North Jeolla regional primaries held that day at Wonkwang University Gymnasium in North Jeolla, Rep. Kim won 57.54% (139,307 votes) across the two areas. Rep. Jeong received 32.64% (79,033 votes), and Rep. Song 9.81% (23,749 votes). The combined number of eligible voters in Honam was 242,089, with turnout at 48.30% in South Jeolla-Gwangju and 47.04% in North Jeolla.
In the five regions excluding Seoul and Gyeonggi (Chungcheong, Busan·Ulsan·South Gyeongsang, Jeju·Incheon, Gangwon·Daegu·North Gyeongsang, and South Jeolla-Gwangju·North Jeolla), Rep. Kim had a cumulative vote total of 235,128 (with weighting for South Gyeongsang·Daegu·North Gyeongsang not applied). The cumulative totals were 171,768 (38.14%) for Rep. Jeong and 43,464 (9.65%) for Rep. Song.
In the Honam regional primaries that day, Rep. Kim won majorities in both South Jeolla-Gwangju and North Jeolla (57.03% in South Jeolla-Gwangju, 58.39% in North Jeolla). With roughly 30% of dues-paying party members concentrated in Honam, regarded as the biggest battleground, Kim is seen as having seized momentum by taking a majority there. Rep. Jeong took 31.84% in South Jeolla-Gwangju and 34% in North Jeolla, while Rep. Song received 11.11% in South Jeolla-Gwangju and 7.6% in North Jeolla.
After the results were announced, Rep. Jeong told reporters, “I respect the choices and judgments of Honam rights-holding party members and will strive further.” To a question that ‘the gap is larger than expected’, he said, “I am grateful for as much as the rights-holding members gave,” adding, “I am grateful when they give a lot, and grateful when they give less.”
Among Supreme Council candidates, Rep. Park Sun-won led in cumulative votes with 17.7% (159,462 votes). Park had been in second place behind Rep. Choi Min-hee through the Daegu-North Gyeongsang leg last week, but was tallied as having overtaken her in Honam that day. Former Democratic Party deputy research institute director Kim Yong had also been locked in a close contest with Rep. Lee Sung-yun for fifth place, but pulled ahead in Honam.
The cumulative vote totals for Supreme Council candidates were: second-place Rep. Choi Min-hee 17.33% (156,061 votes), Rep. Seo Mi-hwa 15.65% (140,978), former deputy director Kim Yong 13.18% (118,702), Rep. Han Min-su 12.70% (114,407), Rep. Lee Sung-yun 12.51% (112,670), Rep. Lim Mi-ae 7.17% (64,582), and Rep. Kim Young-ho 3.76% (33,858).
