SEOUL, May 9 (Xinhua) -- Lee Jae-myung, presidential candidate of South Korea's majority liberal Democratic Party, led a poll for the upcoming snap presidential election on June 3, Flower Research survey showed Friday.
In a hypothetical matchup with Kim Moon-soo, presidential candidate of the second-biggest conservative People Power Party, Lee won a support rate of 52.8 percent, taking a big lead over Kim with 21.6 percent.
Lee earned 51.4 percent in a simulated showdown with former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo with 28.1 percent.
The human rights lawyer-turned-politician maintained his position as a presidential frontrunner in the June 3 election, triggered by the removal of former President Yoon Suk-yeol from office over his botched martial law imposition last December.
Lee lost the 2022 presidential election to Yoon by the country's narrowest margin of 0.73 percentage points.
The poll showed that the Democratic Party garnered an approval score of 51.8 percent while 32.5 percent supported the People Power Party.
The result was based on a poll of 2,006 voters conducted from Wednesday to Thursday. It had a plus and minus 2.2 percentage points in margin of error with a 95 percent confidence level. ■
