Sohn Hak-kyu again took first place in the second round of a mobile phone vote in the primary of the United New Democratic Party on Thursday, winning 38.4 percent or 21,359 out of 55,682 valid votes. Ex-Uri Party chairman Chung Dong-young, who unexpectedly won several rounds of regional votes, came second with 34.6 percent or 19,288 votes, trailed by former premier Lee Hae-chan with 27 percent or 15,035 votes.
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United New Democratic Party presidential hopeful Sohn Hak-kyu vows to win the party's primary after he took first place in the primary's second round of mobile phone voting on Thursday.
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Chung still leads the pack with 77,417 accumulated votes, ahead of Sohn with 66,859 votes and Lee¡¯s 50,961. However, analysts say the result of the UNDP primary race is unpredictable now Sohn won two straight rounds of phone votes. Mathematically, Sohn is behind Chung by just about 10,000 votes, taking the tide at the flood in the final stage. There remains a "one shot" primary election with an electoral college of 1.06 million slated on Sunday and a mobile phone vote with 135,000. Turnout was 74.9 percent on Thursday, better than the 70.6 percent of the first round and more than triple the poor turnout of 19 percent in the eight regional polls held so far.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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