Seoul mayor by-election virtual confrontation, Ahn Chul-soo 43.5% Park Young-sun 40.6%

Input 2021.02.11 21:10 | Revision 2021.02.11 22:01

Young-seon Park in their 40s and Chul-soo Ahn in their 20s and 60s

In the by-election of the Mayor of Seoul on April 7, if the former Minister of Small and Medium Venture Business Park Young-seon as a candidate for the Democratic Party and Ahn Chul-soo, the representative of the National Assembly as a single candidate for the opposition party, will lead Ahn within the margin of error. The results of the poll came out on the 11th.

In a survey (±3.5% points on the 95% confidence level of the sample error) that SBS conducted on 800 people over the age of 18 residing in Seoul from the 6th to the 9th, commissioned by Ipsos, In the case of a bilateral confrontation on the premise of unification, the approval rate of former Minister Park was 40.6% and the approval rate of Representative Ahn was 43.5%.

By age group, people in their 30s and 40s preferred Park, and those in their 20s (18-29), 50s, and 60s or older preferred Ahn. The approval ratings for former Minister Park were 47.3%, CEO Ahn 41.6%, and those in their 40s were 54.3% Park and 35.2% Ahn. In their 20s, 29.4% of former Minister Park, 48.3% of Representative Ahn, 39.9% of former Minister Park, 42.2% of Representative Ahn were in their 50s, 35.7% of former Minister Park and 48% of Representative Ahn over 60. In the same survey, respondents cited former Minister Park (30.0%) as the best candidate for pan-passport and President Ahn (27.0%) as the pan-option candidate.

As a result of a virtual confrontation assuming that the opposition powers as a candidate for the people’s strength were unified, the approval ratings of former Minister Park were all over 10 percentage points. The virtual confrontation between former Minister Park and former lawmaker Na Gyeong-won was 43.7% vs. 33.7%, and the virtual confrontation between former Minister Park and former Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon was 45.1% vs. 33.0%.

If the single candidate for pan-passport is Democratic Party lawmaker Sang-ho Woo, it was found that the former mayor and the former mayor Park Bing were. In the virtual confrontation between Rep. Woo and Representative Ahn, Ahn took the lead with 33.0% vs. 46.9%.

The criteria for selecting candidates for the mayor of Seoul were ▲ real estate measures (28.5%) ▲ morality of candidates (25.9%) ▲ local economy activation (19.4%) ▲ affiliated parties (14.0%).

For more information, refer to the website of the Central Election Polls Review Committee.