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H. Ross Peron
General Mung Beans
Junior Chimp
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Korea, Republic of


Political Matrix
E: -6.58, S: -1.91

« on: March 23, 2021, 02:16:41 AM »

South Korean will be holding by-elections on April 7th municipal positions, the most notable of which will be for the Mayor of Seoul and Busan. Both Seoul and Busan saw its incumbent centre-left Democratic Party mayors suffers sexual harassment allegations. Seoul Mayor Park Won-Soon ended up committing suicide while Busan mayor Oh Keo-Don resigned. Despite a historical landslide victory in last year's legislative elections, the Democratic Party is not in good shape against a resurgent right due to scandals relating to real-estate and disputes over the reform of the prosecutors' office. Incumbent President Moon Jae-In's approval rating has fallen to 34.1%, the lowest in his administration (http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20210322000121).

As a result of unpopularity of the ruling party, Democratic candidates have been trailing significantly in both mayoral races. The only hope for Democrats (who nominated a female candidate, Park Young-Sun) in the Seoul mayoral race was that the right was divided between former Seoul mayor Oh Se-Hoon of the conservative People's Power Party and Ahn Cheol-Soo of the centrist People's Party. However, Oh and Ahn managed to come to an agreement to unite behind the candidate who polled the most support. Today Oh Se-Hoon was selected as the candidate of the unified conservative bloc, following a telephone poll of Seoul residents (https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20210323002751315?section=national/politics). This is bad news for Ahn, who has had a meandering and largely unsuccessful political career for the past 10 years. Conversely, should he win it will be something of a homecoming for Oh who resigned 10 years ago as mayor after losing a referendum on a free school lunch measure which he opposed. It was in that mayor by-election that Park Won-Soon was first elected and where Ahn first seriously considered a political run before declining to do so. Should the conservatives win, it will doubtlessly be seen as a sign of the right's resurgence after their catastrophic collapse following the impeachment over former President Park Geun-Hye.



Wikipedia has a fairly good article on S. Korean politics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_South_Korean_by-elections
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H. Ross Peron
General Mung Beans
Junior Chimp
*****
Posts: 9,406
Korea, Republic of


Political Matrix
E: -6.58, S: -1.91

« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2021, 06:29:40 AM »

Exit polls:

Seoul


Busan


Big oof for Moon.







Turnout was fairly high for a by-election at 54.4% in Seoul and 49.4% an hour before polls closed.
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H. Ross Peron
General Mung Beans
Junior Chimp
*****
Posts: 9,406
Korea, Republic of


Political Matrix
E: -6.58, S: -1.91

« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2021, 06:53:15 AM »

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H. Ross Peron
General Mung Beans
Junior Chimp
*****
Posts: 9,406
Korea, Republic of


Political Matrix
E: -6.58, S: -1.91

« Reply #3 on: April 07, 2021, 07:55:01 PM »

So with 100% of votes counted, the final results for the Seoul and Busan mayoral races are as follows. https://namu.wiki/w/2021%EB%85%84%20%EC%9E%AC%EB%B3%B4%EA%B6%90%EC%84%A0%EA%B1%B0/%EA%B0%9C%ED%91%9C%20%EA%B2%B0%EA%B3%BC

Seoul:
Oh Se-Hoon (People's Power)-2,798,788 (57.5%)
Park Young-Sun (Democratic)-1,907,336 (39.2%)

Busan:
Park Hyung-Joon (People's Power)-961,576 (62.7%)
Kim Young-Choon (Democratic)-528,135 (34.4%)

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