section_path: National Assembly (2022–2025)
section_name: National Assembly (2022–2025)
paragraph_text: National Assembly (2022–2025)
  
  Following his narrow loss in the presidential election the same year, on 7 May 2022, Lee declared his candidacy in the June 2022 South Korean by-elections running for Incheon Gyeyang District B vacant seat in the National Assembly. Lee won the seat in the elections on 1 June 2022. Afterwards, he was elected as the leader of the Democratic Party of Korea on 28 August.