2019 Liberty Korea Party leadership election

2019 Liberty Korea Party leadership election

27 February 2019

Candidate Hwang Kyo-ahn Oh Se-hoon Kim Jin-tae Delegate count 53,185 21,963 20,955 Opinion poll 15,527 20,689 4,969 Total 68,713 42,653 25,924

Leader before election Kim Byong-joon (Interim) Elected Leader Hwang Kyo-ahn

The Liberty Korea Party held a leadership election on 27 February 2019 to elect the next leader of the Liberty Korea Party for a new 2-year term. It was an election to succeed an interim leader Kim Byong-joon, who has been in office for about seven months since the defeat of the Liberty Korea Party in the local elections held on 13 June 2018.

Candidates

Running

• Hwang Kyo-ahn, former acting President of South Korea, former Prime Minister of South Korea, former Minister of Justice.
• Oh Se-hoon, former Mayor of Seoul, former member of the National Assembly.
• Kim Jin-tae, member of the National Assembly.

Results

The ratio of the results by sector was 70% for delegates, 30% for opinion poll.

Final results

Candidate	Delegates	Opinion poll	Total points
Hwang Kyo-ahn	53,185 (55.3%)	37.7% (15,527 pts)	68,713 (50.1%)
Oh Se-hoon	21,963 (22.9%)	50.2% (20,689 pts)	42,653 (31.1%)
Kim Jin-tae	20,955 (21.8%)	12.1% (4,969 pts)	25,924 (18.8%)
Total	96,103	41,185 pts	137,290