A poll released on the 27th showed that the approval rating of Democratic Party of Korea presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung was 49%, ahead of People Power Party candidate Kim Moon-soo (35%) and Reform Party candidate Lee Jun-seok (11%), outside the margin of error.
Korea Gallup announced the results of a survey conducted on 1,004 men and women aged 18 and older from the 24th to the 25th at the request of the Joongang Ilbo. From the 28th, the announcement of opinion poll results related to the 6·3 presidential election will be prohibited.
Even if the conservative-leaning candidates Kim Moon-soo and Lee Jun-seok unify to engage in a hypothetical two-way battle against Lee Jae-myung, Lee Jae-myung still led outside the margin of error. In a unification with Kim Moon-soo, Lee Jae-myung would have 52% and Kim Moon-soo 42%; in a unification with Lee Jun-seok, Lee Jae-myung would have 51% and Lee Jun-seok 40%.
Looking at the approval ratings by region, Lee Jae-myung received about 50% support in the capital region with 46% in Seoul and 52% in Incheon and Gyeonggi. He had 49% support in the Chungcheong region and 79% in Honam. The regions where Kim Moon-soo led were limited to Daegu and North Gyeongsang (49%) and Busan, Ulsan, and South Gyeongsang (47%).
In terms of approval ratings among politically centrist voters, Lee Jae-myung received support from 57% of the centrist group in a multi-way competition. Support for Kim Moon-soo among the centrist group was 26%, and support for Lee Jun-seok was 12%. In a hypothetical two-way contest, when matched against Kim Moon-soo (34%), Lee Jae-myung received 61%, and against Lee Jun-seok (35%), he received 58%.
This opinion poll was conducted using a mobile phone interview method, with a margin of error of ±3.1 percentage points at a 95% confidence level. The response rate was 24.4%. For more details, refer to the Central Election Survey Deliberation Commission website.