Yoon Seok-yeol 45.5% Lee Jae-myung 37.2%... Regime Change Theory 53%

Yoon Down 1.9%p, Lee Up 2.6% Compared to Previous Survey

Lee Jae-myung, Democratic Party presidential candidate (left), Yoon Seok-youl, People Power Party presidential candidate (right) [Photo by Yonhap News]

[Asia Economy Reporter Yoon Seul-gi] Yoon Seok-yeol, the presidential candidate of the People Power Party, led the multi-candidate race for the next presidential election with 45.5%, ahead of Lee Jae-myung, the Democratic Party presidential candidate, who received 37.2%, by a margin of 8.3 percentage points.

According to the regular poll on the next presidential candidates released on the 25th by Asia Research & Consulting, candidate Yoon recorded 45.5%, while candidate Lee recorded 37.2%. Compared to the previous survey (on the 11th), Yoon's support dropped by 1.9 percentage points, whereas Lee's support rose by 2.6 percentage points.

Following them were Heo Kyung-young of the National Revolutionary Party with 4.7%, Sim Sang-jung of the Justice Party with 3.5%, and Ahn Cheol-soo of the People’s Party with 2.3%. The percentage of respondents who had no preferred candidate was 4.2%, other candidates 1.4%, and those who were unsure (no response) accounted for 1.2%.

More than half of the public expressed support for a change of government. The pro-change camp stood at 53.0%, while the pro-incumbent camp was at 37.3%, making the pro-change camp 15.7 percentage points higher.

Party support rates were 38.1% for the People Power Party and 28.0% for the Democratic Party. This was followed by the Open Democratic Party at 7.1%, the People’s Party at 6.0%, the Justice Party at 4.0%, and the National Revolutionary Party at 2.7%.

This survey was conducted on the 24th via telephone automated response system (ARS) using random digit dialing (RDD) 100%, targeting 1,018 men and women aged 18 and over nationwide. The sampling error is ±3.1 percentage points at a 95% confidence level. The response rate was 5.2%. For more detailed information, please refer to the Central Election Poll Deliberation Commission website.

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