Jung Cheongrae Scores Landslide Victory Over Park Chandae in Chungcheong Primary... 62.77% vs 37.23% in Rights-Holding Party Member Vote (Updated)

Leading by 25 Percentage Points in the First Regional Primary
Voter Turnout at 51.46%, Over 50,000 Participants
Final Results to Be Announced at the Party Convention on August 2

In the Chungcheong region party convention of the Democratic Party of Korea, party leader candidate Jung Cheongrae secured a victory. Jung received well over half of the votes in the voting by rights-holding party members.

On July 19, Kim Jeongho, chairperson of the Democratic Party's Central Election Management Committee, announced at the party headquarters in Yeouido, Seoul, that "Candidate No. 1, Jung, received 35,142 votes, accounting for 62.77% of the total, while Candidate No. 2, Park Chandae, received 20,846 votes, or 37.23%." With this result, Jung took a significant lead over Park in the Democratic Party's first regional primary.

Yonhap News Agency

The voter turnout among rights-holding party members that day was 51.46%, with 55,988 out of a total of 108,802 eligible voters participating.

In regional tour primaries, the Democratic Party only discloses the results of the rights-holding party member vote. For the party leader election, the final ranking is determined by combining 15% of the delegate vote, 55% of the rights-holding party member vote, and 30% of a general public opinion poll. The results of the delegate vote for the party leader election, the rights-holding party member vote for the Supreme Council election, the overseas Korean vote for both the party leader and Supreme Council elections, and the general public opinion poll for the party leader election will all be announced on the day of the party convention, which is scheduled for August 2.

The Democratic Party had originally planned to hold an in-person event in Daejeon on this day, but switched to an online joint speech session in consideration of the severe flood damage occurring nationwide. The party will select its leader through additional primaries in Yeongnam on July 20, Honam on July 26, Gyeonggi and Incheon on July 27, and Seoul, Gangwon, and Jeju on August 2. The Yeongnam primary will also be held online due to the ongoing flood damage.