Early Lunar New Year Holiday Lee-Yoon Support Rates Neck and Neck: "33% vs 32.5% · 33.2% vs 37.8%"

[Asia Economy Reporter Ki-min Lee] A survey conducted in the early days of the Lunar New Year holiday, which could determine the direction of support rates for the 20th presidential election, showed on the 30th that the support rates for Lee Jae-myung, the Democratic Party candidate, and Yoon Seok-youl, the People Power Party candidate, are in a neck-and-neck race within the margin of error.

According to a survey conducted by Southern Post on behalf of CBS from the 28th to 29th, targeting 1,002 men and women nationwide aged 18 and over, in a multi-candidate race, Lee's support rate was 33%, while Yoon's was 32.5%.

Compared to the Southern Post survey conducted on the 21st and 22nd, Yoon's support rate showed no change, while Lee's support rate dropped by 1 percentage point. Ahn Cheol-soo, the People's Party candidate, saw his support rate decrease by 1.3 percentage points to 9.4%, and Sim Sang-jung, the Justice Party candidate, increased by 0.3 percentage points to 2.5%.

The proportion of respondents who said that presidential candidate TV debates are important in deciding their preferred candidate was 75.6%. In particular, the percentage of those who said they would watch the TV debates was 87.1% (46.6% definitely will watch, 40.5% will watch if possible).

In a presidential candidate support rate survey conducted by Hankook Research on behalf of KBS from the 27th to 29th, targeting 1,000 men and women nationwide, Lee's support rate was 33.2%, and Yoon's was 37.8%. Ahn's support rate was 11.1%, and Sim's was 2.3%.

The margin of error for both surveys is ±3.1 percentage points at a 95% confidence level. The Southern Post survey was conducted via telephone interviews (100% mobile), with a response rate of 20.5%. The Hankook Research survey was also conducted via telephone interviews, with a response rate of 21.2%.

For more details, please refer to the website of the Central Election Survey Deliberation Commission.

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