2019 Liberty Korea Party leadership election

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.^[1] 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.

2019 Liberty Korea Party leadership election

← 2017 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

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^[2]

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

References

1. "반환점 돈 한국당 전대···'1강2중 구도' 역전극 나올까". JoongAng Ilbo (in Korean). 20 February 2019.
2. "한국당 새 대표에 황교안…2위 오세훈·3위 김진태(상보)". News 1 (뉴스 1) (in Korean). 27 February 2019. Retrieved 27 February 2019.