DPK: Insufficient Sample Size Found in Preliminary Race Polls, but No Impact on Results

The Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) announced today (July 24) that it was confirmed that some samples created by combining specific regions and ages were insufficient during the public opinion polls conducted for three days starting from the 21st for the party leader and supreme council member preliminary races.

However, the party stated that the scale of the insufficient samples was minimal and had no impact on the election outcomes.

Representative Lim Ho-sun, vice chairperson of the Central Election Commission for the August 17 National Convention, met with reporters at the National Assembly today to announce the matters resolved by the election commission regarding the polls the previous day.

In this preliminary race, public opinion polls accounted for 30% of the party leader candidate election.

In accordance with party regulations, the DPK commissioned two polling agencies to receive 2,000 samples each.

The DPK explained that each sample could be broken down into 60 combinations based on region, age, and gender.

Representative Lim said, "15 people should have been sampled in each combination, but only 8 people were sampled in one combination," adding, "We discussed whether to accept the poll results, but since the candidates' sides and the polling agencies stated that it was not a significant issue, we resolved to approve the results."

In response to a question asking if there were any protests from the candidates, Lim replied, "None at all," and added, "The polling method is a standard applied entirely by the election commission, so it was not a situation that required the consent or understanding of the candidates."

When asked whether the 7 insufficient samples had any impact on the election results, Lim answered, "That's correct," meaning they did not.

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