In the Aug. 17 Democratic Party of Korea convention's Jeju and Incheon touring primaries to elect the next leadership, Kim Min-seok beat Jung Chung-rae. The vote-share gap between the two candidates exceeded 5 percentage points (p). Song Young-gil again placed third in this primary with 10% of the vote.

Party leader candidates sit side by side at the joint campaign speech for party leader and Supreme Council candidates at the Democratic Party of Korea's 3rd Regular National Convention, held at Heritique Jeju in Jeju City on the 8th. From left: Kim Min-seok, Jung Chung-rae, Song Young-gil./Courtesy of News1

On the 8th in the afternoon at Namdong Gymnasium in Incheon, the Democratic Party held a joint speech event for the touring primaries to elect the party leader and Supreme Council members and announced the Jeju and Incheon results. Only the dues-paying members' vote share is disclosed in the touring primaries. A total of 47,198 dues-paying members voted that day.

In Jeju and Incheon, candidate Kim won 22,537 votes, taking 47.74% of the vote. Candidate Jung received 19,862 votes (42.08%), and candidate Song took 4,799 votes (10.16%). The gap in vote share that day between Kim and Jung, who are locked in a tight race for the lead, was 5.66 percentage points.

That day in Jeju and Incheon, candidate Kim recorded more votes than candidate Jung. In particular, in Jeju, Kim received 8,742 votes (52.64%), more than half of the 16,607 voters. In Jeju, candidate Jung managed 6,625 votes (39.89%). Candidate Song received 1,240 votes (7.47%).

Incheon, which includes President Lee Jae-myung's most recent constituency, tilted toward candidate Kim. In Incheon, Kim won 13,795 votes (45.09%) out of 30,591. Jung posted 13,237 votes (43.27%), a narrow difference. Song received 3,559 votes (11.63%).

In the overall cumulative vote share as well, candidate Kim led with 45.42%, ahead of candidate Jung (44.56%). The overall cumulative vote-share gap between the two is 0.87 percentage points. Candidate Jung rose to overall cumulative first place on the 2nd by defeating candidate Kim in Busan, Ulsan and South Gyeongsang, but gave up the position a week later. However, since strategic district weightings have not been applied, the exact figures are expected to be released on convention day.

In the Jeju-Incheon Supreme Council primaries, candidate Park Sun-won garnered the most votes with 16,819. Next were candidate Choi Min-hee (16,060), candidate Seo Mi-hwa (14,289), Han Min-soo (13,610) and Kim Yong (12,493).

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