Seoul Mayor Suitability: 'Park Young-sun 32.2%, Ahn Cheol-soo 23.3%, Na Kyung-won 16.5%'

[Asia Economy Reporter Oh Ju-yeon] Park Young-sun, the Democratic Party primary candidate, ranked first outside the margin of error in a suitability survey for Seoul mayor, according to a public opinion poll.

On the 15th, Realmeter announced that in a survey commissioned by MBC's '100-Minute Debate' conducted from the 13th to 14th among 1,005 Seoul citizens aged 18 and over, Park's support rate was 32.2%, surpassing Ahn Cheol-soo, leader of the People’s Party, who had 23.3%. The gap between the two candidates was 8.9 percentage points, which is outside the margin of error (3.1 percentage points at a 95% confidence level).

Following them were Na Kyung-won of the People Power Party with 16.5%, Woo Sang-ho, Democratic Party primary candidate, with 7.6%, and Oh Se-hoon, People Power Party primary candidate, with 7.0%.

When asked about the significance of this Seoul mayoral by-election, 49.8% responded that "the opposition party should be empowered to hold the government and ruling party accountable," while 43.1% said "the government and ruling party should be empowered for stable national governance."

The top issue the next Seoul mayor will face was "stabilization of housing and real estate market" (36.6%).

"Job creation and economic revitalization" (30.1%) and "COVID-19 quarantine and post-measures" (15.4%) followed.

Detailed information is available on the Central Election Survey Deliberation Commission website.

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