Park Ji-won, Overwhelming 1st Place for 6 Consecutive Times... "Committed to Unity and Integration of Haenam, Wando, and Jindo"

KBC Gwangju Broadcasting Announces Poll Results on 13th: Park Jiwon 44.5%, Incumbent Yoon Jaegap 22.5%

58.0% Agree with 'Government and Ruling Party Judgment Theory', Proportional Representation Support: Democratic Party 67.2%

“Political master” Park Ji-won, former director of the National Intelligence Service, ranked overwhelmingly first in all six opinion polls conducted by media outlets since September last year.

With just over two months remaining until the 22nd National Assembly election, the latest poll results indicate that Park is solidifying his dominant position in the Haenam-Wando-Jindo electoral district.

KBC Gwangju Broadcasting commissioned Research View, a professional polling agency, to survey 500 eligible voters aged 18 and over residing in Haenam, Wando, and Jindo counties on the 11th and 12th. The results showed Park leading with 44.5% support.

Incumbent lawmaker Yoon Jae-gap followed in second place with 22.5%. The gap between first and second place was calculated at 22.0 percentage points.

(Left) Survey on the support for candidates in the Haenam, Wando, and Jindo counties general election commissioned by KBC Gwangju Broadcasting to the polling specialist Research View, (Right) Survey results related to the framing of the 22nd general election
[Photo by KBC Gwangju Broadcasting, poll results capture]

Following them were Yoon Kwang-guk, former head of the Honam regional office of the Korea Appraisal Board, with 10.4%; Lee Young-ho, former member of the National Assembly, with 5.4%; Kwak Bong-geun, advisor to the People Power Party’s National Policy Advisory Committee, with 5.1%; Jang Hwan-seok, former senior administrative officer at the Presidential Secretariat, with 3.4%; and Kim Byung-gu, former chief prosecutor at the Seoul Western District Prosecutors’ Office, with 3.0%. Other candidates and “none/don’t know” accounted for 1.3% and 4.3%, respectively.

Regarding the framing of the 22nd general election, 58.0% of voters in Haenam, Wando, and Jindo counties expressed agreement with the “judgment against the government and ruling party” narrative.

Next, 13.8% agreed with the “simultaneous judgment against the two major parties” narrative, and 7.9% agreed with the “judgment against the 586 activist generation” narrative.

In the proportional representation party support survey, the Democratic Party of Korea was overwhelmingly favored by 67.2% of respondents. This was followed by the Reform New Party at 9.2%, the People Power Party at 8.5%, the Green Justice Party at 4.1%, the Progressive Party at 3.7%, and the New Progressive Alliance at 1.8%.

Regarding the results of this poll, Park Ji-won’s camp expressed, “We bow our heads in gratitude to the residents of Haenam, Wando, and Jindo,” adding, “We will listen more humbly and diligently to the voices of the residents.”

He continued, “We will achieve an electoral revolution through unity and integration of the three counties, which share the camellia flower as a common symbol,” and emphasized, “Like the Jindo dog, we will fiercely fight against the Yoon Seok-yeol administration and lead the Democratic Party to victory in the general election and the change of government.”

Meanwhile, this poll was conducted over two days on the 11th and 12th by KBC Gwangju Broadcasting, which commissioned Research View to carry out an ARS automated response survey using virtual safe phone numbers targeting men and women aged 18 and over residing in Haenam, Wando, and Jindo counties. The response rate was 6.5%, and the margin of error was ±4.4 percentage points at a 95% confidence level. For more details, please refer to the website of the Central Election Poll Deliberation Commission.

Jindo = Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, reporter Oh Seung-geun just8440@asiae.co.kr

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