{"id":260563,"date":"2026-05-16T01:34:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T16:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tenbizt.com\/en\/news\/uncategorized\/2026\/05\/16\/seoul-mayoral-race-jung-won-o-leads-oh-se-hoon-by-11-what-this-means-for-voters\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T01:34:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T16:34:18","slug":"seoul-mayoral-race-jung-won-o-leads-oh-se-hoon-by-11-what-this-means-for-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenbizt.com\/en\/news\/politics\/2026\/05\/16\/seoul-mayoral-race-jung-won-o-leads-oh-se-hoon-by-11-what-this-means-for-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"Seoul Mayoral Race: Jung Won-o Leads Oh Se-hoon by 11% \u2013 What This Means for Voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Translation resultSeoul \u2014 Jung Won\u2011oh 43% \u00b7 Oh Se\u2011hoon 32%; Busan \u2014 Jeon Jae\u2011su 42% \u00b7 Park Heong\u2011joon 33%A poll released on the 15th, after candidate registration closed for the June 3 local elections, shows candidates from the Democratic Party leading their People Power Party rivals in the mayoral races in Seoul and Busan.Hankook Research conducted the poll for KBS from April 11\u201314. In Seoul, Democratic candidate Jung Won\u2011oh received 43% support, while People Power candidate Oh Se\u2011hoon received 32%. The 11\u2011point gap is outside the poll\u2019s margin of error of \u00b13.5 percentage points. Support levels were unchanged from a KBS poll published on April 30. Thirteen percent said they had no preferred candidate, and 7% answered \u201cdon\u2019t know\/no response.\u201dBy subregion, only Gangnam East \u2014 which includes the three Gangnam districts \u2014 showed a close race: Jung 36% vs. Oh 44%, a margin within the subregional error range of \u00b17.4 percentage points. In the other Seoul districts, Jung led: Gangbuk West (46% vs. 25%), Gangbuk East (46% vs. 30%), and Gangnam West (44% vs. 31%).In Busan, the Democratic candidate also led. Jeon Jae\u2011su polled 42% to Park Heong\u2011joon\u2019s 33%, a 9\u2011point advantage outside the \u00b13.5\u2011point margin of error. As in Seoul, support in Busan remained range\u2011bound compared with a KBS poll released at the end of April. Among voters who said they will definitely vote, Jeon led 50% to Park\u2019s 35%.The survey used randomly generated virtual phone numbers and conducted telephone interviews with 800 eligible voters each in Seoul and Busan from April 11\u201314. Response rates were 13.6% in Seoul and 19.2% in Busan. The sampling error is \u00b13.5 percentage points at the 95% confidence level. 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