'Korean 3rd term' U.S. Representative Young Kim loses election... The same party lost to Calvert for the 17th term.
Yonhap News Los Angeles Correspondent Kim Kyung-yoon reports
Quick Look
- On the 9th (local time), Congresswoman Young Kim, a Korean female politician belonging to the Republican Party of the United States, lost 46.4% of the vote to Congressman Ken Calvert of the same party, who received 53.6% of the vote in California's 40th Congressional District, and her bid for a fourth term was thwarted.
- In the 'jungle primary' type final election in which members of the same party faced each other due to district redistricting, Representative Kim was defeated based on 71% of the votes counted.
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Why It Matters
Representative Young Kim was a representative Korean female member of the House of Representatives who served as the subcommittee chair of the East Asia and Pacific subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Originally from Incheon, he moved to the U.S. territory of Guam with his family in 1975, attended middle and high school, and graduated from the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles. After working in the financial industry and as a clothing businessman, she entered politics by becoming an aide to former congressman Ed Royce, a close friend, at her husband's recommendation. She was elected as a California state representative in 2014, and entered the Federal Assembly in 2020, serving as a third-term congressman.
Congresswoman Young Kim (Korean name Kim Young-ok), a female politician of Korean descent who belongs to the U.S. Republican Party, was defeated in her bid for a fourth term.
According to the Associated Press on the 9th (local time), with 71% of the votes counted in the 40th Congressional District of California, Rep. Kim was defeated with 46.4% of the vote, defeated by Rep. Ken Calvert of the same party, who received 53.6% of support.
Rep. Kim was a representative Korean-American female congresswoman who had been actively working as the chair of the East Asia and Pacific subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, but she was unable to overcome the barrier of Calvert, a 17-term incumbent congressman and a leading figure in the party.
The reason the 40th constituency has become a so-called family fight within the Republican Party is because of district redistricting.
Until the last election, Rep. Calvert ran in the 41st Congressional District, but when the 41st Congressional District became a Democratic-dominated district due to district redistricting, Calvert moved to the 40th Congressional District and ran.
California adopts the so-called 'jungle primary' method in which the top two candidates, regardless of party affiliation, advance to the general election. Accordingly, lawmakers from the same party sometimes face each other in the main election.
Rep. Kim is from Incheon, moved to the U.S. territory of Guam with his family in 1975, attended middle and high school, and graduated from the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles.
After working in the financial industry and working as a clothing businessman, she entered politics by becoming an aide to former congressman Ed Royce, a close friend, at the recommendation of her husband. Afterwards, he was elected as a member of the California State Assembly in 2014, and in 2020, he entered the Federal Assembly and served as a third-term lawmaker.
Open Questions
- Will Rep. Young Kim retire from politics in the future?
- Future political outlook for California's 40th Congressional District
- The impact of Rep. Calvert's election to the 40th Congressional District will have on the Republican Party
