2016 legislative election victory [ ] See also: Though losing votes to the People's Party formed by Ahn, Chun and Kim Han-gilโparticularly in Honam โthe party emerged as the overall winner of the election, garnering a plurality of seats 123 seats in the with a margin of one seat over the.
Park Won-soon was a member of President Moon Jae-in's liberal Democratic Party and had been touted for a run at becoming South Korea's president in the country's next national elections in 2022.