Former prime minister and ruling Democratic Party’s(DP) coronavirus response committee chief Lee Nak-yon and the main opposition United Future Party(UFP) Chair Hwang Kyo-ahn are the leading potential contenders for the 2022 presidential race.

Pollster Realmeter's survey of two-thousand-531 eligible voters between March 23 to 27 showed that 29-point-seven percent of respondents support Lee, down point-four percentage points from a month earlier.

Lee, who led the polls involving 12 potential candidates, has kept the top spot for ten consecutive months.

Support for Hwang, who will compete against Lee for a parliamentary seat representing Seoul's Jongno district in next month's general elections, came to 19-point-four percent, down one-point-one percentage point.

Gyeonggi Governor Lee Jae-myung, who pledged coronavirus-related income for all provincial residents, secured 13-point-six percent of support. Meanwhile, the minor People's Party leader Ahn Cheol-soo, who volunteered in the virus-stricken city of Daegu, had support of five-point-five percent.

The survey, commissioned by Oh My News, had a 95 percent confidence level with a margin of error of plus or minus one-point-nine percentage points.