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Section size for 2022 South Korean presidential election (45 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	4,103	4,103
Background	4,070	4,070
Electoral system	641	641
Nominations	18	65,243
Democratic Party	2,837	20,204
Primary campaign	2,360	2,360
Primary schedule and process	2,012	5,570
Primary results	3,558	3,558
Candidate	1,526	1,526
Other primary candidates	2,811	2,811
Eliminated candidates	1,592	1,592
Withdrawn candidates	3,508	3,508
People Power Party	3,768	27,881
Primary campaign	10,951	12,586
Primary results	1,635	1,635
Candidate	1,542	1,542
Other candidates	6,052	6,052
Withdrawn candidates	1,197	1,197
Did not run	2,736	2,736
Justice Party	403	2,320
Candidate	1,188	1,188
Other primary candidates	729	729
People Party	4,825	6,069
Candidate	1,244	1,244
Minor party candidates	8,751	8,751
Registered candidates	3,369	3,369
Opinion polling	8,123	8,123
Campaign developments	26	22,287
Campaign issues	818	818
Negative campaigning and candidate unpopularity	4,334	4,334
Recruitment of left-wing feminists to the conservative camps	4,797	4,797
Infighting in Yoon's campaign team and PPP	4,200	4,200
Sim Sang-jung suspends campaign activities	1,566	1,566
Bus accident deaths involving Ahn Cheol-soo's campaigners	835	835
Ahn's withdrawal from the campaign, endorsing Yoon Suk-yeol	3,381	3,381
Attack against Song Young-gil	2,330	2,330
Voting	919	919
Exit polls	5,970	5,970
Results	4,462	14,671
By region	19	10,209
Major candidates	5,360	5,360
Minor candidates	4,830	4,830
Aftermath	813	813
Notes	24	24
References	269	269
Total	130,502	130,502

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Minor parties and independents

Should we remove the minor parties and independents section? The National Revolutionary Dividends Party has no elected representation at any level in South Korea and from what I can see from the opinion polls their candidate hasn't even appeared in any polls. As for the Progressive Party we don't even have a confirmed candidate for them and they also have no elected members in the National Assembly. The Progressive Party's predecessor (People's United Party (South Korea)) finished in 8th place in the last South Korean presidential election in 2017 with 0.08% of the vote. These parties don't seem to be notable in this election unless their candidates at least begin to appear in opinion polls. The citation for the National Revolutionary Dividends Party may also be a first party source although I'm not sure and as for the Progressive Party we don't even have a citation talking about them running in this election or any of their potential candidates. I'd argue its better we remove this section, for without any criteria the page could become overloaded with a host of extremely minor parties and independents that will likely have very little, if any, impact in the election. Helper201 (talk) 22:03, 14 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I'd say so. Most other pages for elections don't bother with parties that made too little impact, except for tables if applicable. I took a look at the previous pages, the 2017 one has no mention of the PP at all (and the NRDP didn't exist yet), though it does get a mention in the 2012 one. FelipeFritschF (talk) 23:55, 14 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

No. People deserve to know all of the candidates and the wide range of parties and ideologies in South Korean elections. Bashore101 (Bashore101) 16:05, 15 August 2021 (KST)

I certainly agree with that in principle, but I believe too detailed mentions of miniscule parties in this article is falls under undue weight. I mentioned the other SK election pages as precedent and you can take a look at other election pages too. Let me give another example from a slightly similar party system, Brazil, and one election I actively participated in as a party member: 2018 Brazilian general election. It doesn't mention the Workers' Cause Party and the Cidadania, even though they're both probably more significant in Brazilian politics than the PP and the NRDP. Other minor parties do get a mention in tables if they're part of a coalition and that's about it. Similarly to Brazil also, SK's minor parties are becoming less and less relevant, so that makes the need to keep them in less prescient, I believe. For contrast, one article that does need to mention those parties would be List of political parties in South Korea, and it does. But this is not one of those. FelipeFritschF (talk) 07:18, 15 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

(Invited by the bot) Depends on "how minor of minor"? I just took a quick look. A good threshold might be ones that get at least 1% of the national vote. North8000 (talk) 21:35, 19 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't seem either of them did, so I'd say they don't need to be included, no. FelipeFritschF (talk) 01:53, 21 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

~~If they are below 1% polling, then go ahead and remove.RCatesby (talk) 12:26, 2 September 2021 (UTC)~~ sock[reply]

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Conservative victory confirmed

http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20220310000052 93.206.58.190 (talk) 20:08, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"Antifeminist sentiment"??

Sounds more like a load of nonsense. A country with a fertility rate of .81 per woman does not need more "feminism" and rather more women wanting to become mother.

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This is inappropriate and not applicable to the Wiki on the 2022 South Korean Presidential Election. It is quite clear with this comment that you do not understand the Korean language or consumed any native-language media on the Election, because it was reported extensively with the two main party candidates in a tug-of-war match on who can fight "feminism" harder, as well as main opposition candidate Sim Sang Jung being attacked for calling herself a "(future) Feminist President." Elg3a-1 (talk) 04:10, 17 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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