2018 Taiwanese local elections – Wikipedia

2018 Taiwanese local elections

Registered	19,102,502
Turnout	66.11% 0.20 pp[b]
after-content-x4      KMT hold      DPP hold      IND hold      KMT gain      DPP gain      IND gain

Local elections were held on 24 November 2018^[2][3] in Taiwan, to elect county magistrates (city mayors), county (city) councilors, township mayors, township councilors and chiefs of village (borough) in 6 municipalities and 16 counties (cities). Elected officials would serve a four-year term. Polling stations were open from 08:00 to 16:00 on the election day.^[4]

The elections resulted in a substantial defeat for the DPP. The DPP previously held 13 of 22 municipalities and counties, but won only 6 in this election due to widespread public distrust, a de facto vote of no confidence on President Tsai’s Administration, both politically (relations with China), economically (agriculture, tourism), and socially (pollution, labor laws, wages), which were reflected in the series of referendum results.^{[citation needed]} The KMT won back executive control of 7 municipalities and counties from the DPP, while Ko Wen-je won his re-election for Taipei mayor.

Background[edit]

This local election was seen as the first test for the incumbent President Tsai Ing-wen since assuming office in May 2016. The Central Election Commission opened election registration to candidates on 27 August 2018.^[5]

The Democratic Progressive Party has won the popular vote against the Kuomintang in all of the last three elections.^[6] This trend has continued in the 2016 elections, where the Democratic Progressive Party won a majority in the Legislative Yuan with 68 seats and the presidency.

Results summary[edit]

Magistrate and mayor elections[edit]

Opinion polls[edit]

2018 Taiwan magistrate/mayor elections nationwide opinion poll

Poll organization	Date completed	KMT	DPP	Others	IND
TPOF	2018-11-08	33.9%	24.2%	－	14.9%
Trend Survey	2018-11-06	36.4%	25.9%	0.8%	15.2%
Taiwan Brain Trust	2018-07-28	29.5%	38.6%	0.4%	10.5%

Results[edit]

Subdivision	Electorate	Turnout (%)	Winner				Runner-up				Map
			Name		Votes	%	Name		Votes	%
New Taipei City	3,264,128	62.46		Hou You-yi	1,165,130	57.15		Su Tseng-chang	873,692	42.85
Taipei City	2,164,155	65.37		Ko Wen-je	580,820	41.05		Ting Shou-chung	577,566	40.82
Taoyuan City	1,732,591	59.63		Cheng Wen-tsan	552,330	53.46		Apollo Chen	407,234	39.42
Taichung City	2,213,789	66.12		Lu Shiow-yen	827,996	56.57		Lin Chia-lung	619,855	42.35
Tainan City	1,546,862	62.49		Huang Wei-cher	367,518	38.02		Kao Su-po	312,874	32.37
Kaohsiung City	2,281,338	72.63		Han Kuo-yu	892,545	53.87		Chen Chi-mai	742,239	44.80
Yilan County	373,510	66.97		Lin Zi-miao	123,767	49.48		Chen Ou-po	95,609	38.23
Hsinchu County	427,652	66.03		Yang Wen-ke	107,877	38.20		Hsu Hsin-ying	91,190	32.29
Miaoli County	446,507	68.17		Hsu Yao-chang	175,756	57.74		Hsu Ting-zhen	112,704	37.03
Changhua County	1,031,222	68.89		Wang Huei-mei	377,795	53.18		Wei Ming-ku	283,269	39.87
Nantou County	413,222	70.87		Lin Ming-chen	195,385	66.72		Hung Kuo-hao	97,460	33.28
Yunlin County	565,078	69.29		Chang Li-shan	210,770	53.82		Lee Chin-yung	163,325	41.72
Chiayi County	428,649	66.52		Weng Chang-liang	145,288	50.95		Wu Yu-jen	84,243	29.54
Pingtung County	689,393	68.20		Pan Men-an	262,809	55.90		Su Ching-chuan	197,518	42.01
Taitung County	179,706	66.51		Rao Ching-ling	70,577	59.05		Liu Chao-hao	44,264	37.04
Hualien County	268,817	63.09		Hsu Chen-wei	121,297	71.52		Liu Siao-Mei	43,879	25.87
Penghu County	86,603	61.10		Lai Feng-wei	20,570	38.87		Chen Kuang-fu	17,347	32.78
Keelung City	309,428	60.98		Lin Yu-chang	102,167	54.14		Hsieh Li-kung	86,529	45.86
Hsinchu City	338,323	64.17		Lin Chih-chien	107,612	49.57		Hsu Ming-tsai	60,508	27.87
Chiayi City	212,843	66.81		Huang Min-hui	58,558	41.18		Twu Shiing-jer	56,256	39.56
Kinmen County	117,913	41.75		Yang Cheng-wu	23,520	47.48		Chen Fu-hai	22,719	46.15
Lienchiang County	10,773	68.76		Liu Cheng-ying	4,861	65.62		Chu Hsiu-chen	1,284	17.33

Councillor elections[edit]

Nominations[edit]

Opinion polls[edit]

2018 Municipal Councillor & County Councillor Nationwide Polls
Poll source	Date of completion	Kuomintang	Democratic Progressive Party	Others	Independent	Lead
Taiwan Think Tank	April 1, 2018	28.5%	33.6%	－	4.9%	5.1%
Taiwan Brain Trust	July 28, 2018	29.9%	22.9%	－	3.6%	7%
New Power Party	September 5, 2018	25.2%	23.6%	12.1%	－	1.6%
Taipei
China Times	June 4, 2018	39.4%	16.6%	－	－	22.8%
Trends	July 16, 2018	27.1%	14.1%	7.1%	3.9%	13%
CM Media Archived 2017-02-20 at the Wayback Machine	July 26, 2018	35%	16.2%	12.7%	－	18.8%
Formosa	October 12, 2018	28.5%	16.3%	5.6%	－	12.2%
Taichung
CM Media	July 31, 2018	27.7%	21.3%	16%	－	6.4%
Kaohsiung
CM Media	September 18, 2018	27.5%	24.1%	17.3%	－	3.4%
Hsinchu City
Taiwan Green Party	August 24, 2018	27.3%	12.2%	10.2%	－	15.1%
Changhua County
CM Media	October 16, 2018	32.5%	17.8%	14.9%	－	14.7%
Chiayi City
CM Media	September 5, 2018	25%	24.7%	16.8%	－	0.3%
Yilan County
CM Media	September 26, 2018	27%	20.5%	15.3%	－	7.5%

Results[edit]

Township/city mayor elections[edit]

2018 Republic of China Township Head Results:

  Independent

Nominations[edit]

Results[edit]

Township/city council elections[edit]

Nominations[edit]

Results[edit]

Village chief elections[edit]

Nominations[edit]

Results[edit]

Aftermath[edit]

President Tsai Ing-wen announced her resignation as chairperson for the Democratic Progressive Party; Premier William Lai also unilaterally announced his resignation on Facebook [1]; his resignation was approved in 2019. The DPP secretary general Hung Yao-fu and Secretary-General to the President Chen Chu also announced their resignations. Following the elections, the Taiwanese foreign minister claimed that China had meddled in the elections.^[7]

Defector and self-proclaimed former spy William Wang claimed that the government of China had successfully supported candidates in the 2018 Taiwanese local elections.^[8]

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