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Results of the 2018 Taiwanese magistrate/mayor elections

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The 2018 Taiwanese municipal elections for both mayoral and magisterial candidates were held on 24 November 2018, as part of the larger local elections in Taiwan.

2018 municipal election candidate nominations

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Nominations for 2018 municipal elections
Date Party/wave Nominations and details
24 September 2017 DPP The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) held its national congress, mainly to gain support in the upcoming local and municipal elections, giving the incumbent a priority to be nominated.[1]
29 November 2017 DPP/01
20 December 2017 KMT/01
Primary winner Wang Huei-mei (Changhua County)[3]
27 December 2017 DPP/02
31 January 2018 KMT/02
7 February 2018 KMT/03 Hsieh Li-kung (Keelung City) after negotiation due to opinion poll error[6]
21 February 2018 KMT/04 Lu Shiow-yen (Taichung City)[7]
27 February 2018 KMT/05 Huang Min-hui (Chiayi City)[8]
14 March 2018 DPP/03
21 March 2018 KMT/06 Lai Feng-wei (Penghu County)[10]
11 April 2018 KMT/07
25 April 2018 KMT/08
25 April 2018 DPP/04
9 May 2018 KMT/09
23 May 2018 KMT/10
30 May 2018 DPP/05 Pasuya Yao (Taipei City)
13 June 2018 KMT/11 Yang Wen-ke (Hsinchu County)

Results summary

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Bold represents incumbent re-elected.

Elected special municipalities mayors and county magistrates
County/City Elected candidate Party
Keelung City Lin Yu-chang DPP
New Taipei Hou You-yi KMT
Taipei Ko Wen-je Ind
Taoyuan Cheng Wen-tsan DPP
Hsinchu County Yang Wen-ke KMT
Hsinchu City Lin Chih-chien DPP
Miaoli Hsu Yao-chang KMT
Taichung Lu Shiow-yen KMT
Nantou Lin Ming-chen KMT
Changhua Wang Huei-mei KMT
Yunlin Chang Li-shan KMT
Chiayi Weng Chang-liang DPP
Chiayi City Huang Min-hui KMT
Tainan Huang Wei-cher DPP
Kaohsiung Han Kuo-yu KMT
Pingtung Pan Men-an DPP
Yilan Lin Zi-miao KMT
Hualien Hsu Chen-wei KMT
Taitung Rao Ching-ling KMT
Penghu Lai Feng-wei KMT
Kinmen Yang Cheng-wu KMT
Lienchiang Liu Cheng-ying KMT
Changes in seats
Party Seats in 2018 Seats in 2014 Change
DPP 6 13 Decrease 7
KMT 15 6 Increase 9
Ind/Other 1 3 Decrease 2
Special municipalities/County/City re-elected incumbent
County/City Previous control New Control
Taipei Ko Wen-je Ind
Keelung City Lin Yu-chang DPP
Taoyuan Cheng Wen-tsan DPP
Hsinchu City Lin Chih-chien DPP
Miaoli Hsu Yao-chang KMT
Nantou Lin Ming-chen KMT
Pingtung Pan Men-an DPP
Lienchiang Liu Cheng-ying KMT
Special municipalities/County/City switching control
County/City Previous control New Control
Taichung DPP KMT
Kaohsiung DPP KMT
Changhua DPP KMT
Yunlin DPP KMT
Chiayi City DPP KMT
Yilan DPP KMT
Hualien Ind KMT
Penghu DPP KMT
Kinmen Ind KMT

Political context prior to the elections

Taipei City
Highest vote share
Party Year Vote share %
Democratic Progressive Party 2016 presidential election 52%
Kuomintang 2002 local elections 64%
2016 election results
Party Presidential % Legislative seats Legislative %
Democratic Progressive Party 51.96% 2 14.14%
Kuomintang 37.49% 5 39.66%
New Power Party - 1 6.60%
Taiwan Solidarity Union - 0 0.95%
People First Party 10.55% 0 5.95%
Independent/Others - 0 32.71%

Results of the primary

2018 Kuomintang Taipei City mayoral primary results
Candidates Place TVBS Apollo Survey & Research UDN Aggregated Result
Ting Shou-chung Nominated 48.395% 46.778% 47.741% 47.634%
Sun Ta-chien 2nd 17.891% 18.845% 17.878% 18.205%
Chang Hsien-yao 3rd 17.073% 17.909% 16.723% 17.235%
Chung Siao Ping 4th 16.651% 16.468% 17.658% 16.926%
2018 Democratic Progressive Party Taipei City mayoral primary results
Candidates Place Results
Pasuya Yao Called in Results not released
Annette Lu Results not released

Opinion polls

Poll organization Date of completion Ko Wen-je Ting Shou-chung Pasuya Yao Not sure Lead
TVBS May 4, 2017 40% 39% 9% 12% 1%
TVBS May 4, 2017 46% 41% 13% 5%
Real Survey May 23, 2017 39.9% 43.1% 17% 3.2%
TISR June 21, 2017 43.3% 32.2% 24.5% 11.1%
Formosa July 13, 2017 47.2% 31.3% 21.5% 15.9%
Sanli July 17, 2017 32.1% 31.8% 15.7% 20.4% 0.3%
ETtoday September 20, 2017 72.5% 17.5% 10% 55%
TCF November 23, 2017 42.7% 36.9% 20.4% 5.8%
Formosa December 12, 2017 46.0% 32.7% 21.3% 15.3%
Formosa December 12, 2017 43.1% 28.2% 11.4% 17.3% 14.9%
TISR1 December 14, 2017 36.6% 15.7% 6.8% 22% 20.9%
Real Survey February 9, 2018 44.2% 26.6% 16.1% 13.1% 17.6%
Sanli February 12, 2018 39.8% 30.3% 13.9% 16% 9.5%
Sanli February 12, 2018 47.0% 39.1% 13.9% 7.9%
Focus Survey Research February 25, 2018 47.6% 25.6% 15.2% 11.6% 22%
Focus Survey Research February 25, 2018 54.7% 31.1% 14.2% 23.6%
ETtoday February 26, 2018 44.0% 39.2% 16.8% 4.8%
GSSC March 7, 2018 47.5% 40.7% 11.8% 6.8%
GSSC March 7, 2018 42.4% 30.9% 13.5% 13.2% 11.5%
Evidence-Based Survey and Research April 25, 2018 35.0% 25.6% 21.5% 17.9% 9.4%
Apollo May 2, 2018 33.0% 33.6% 33.4% 0.6%
TVBS May 2, 2018 31% 38% 31% 7%
Liberty Times Net May 2, 2018 30.69% 37.47% 31.84% 6.78%
ETtoday May 3, 2018 48.5% 32.1% 4.0% 15.4% 16.4%
DPP May 3, 2018 35% 30% 25% 10% 5%
Green Party May 3, 2018 31% 35% 25% 9% 4%
China Times May 13, 2018 36.5% 42.7% 31% 6.2%
Formosa May 14, 2018 41.0% 40.9% 18.1% 0.1%
Formosa May 14, 2018 35.2% 33.1% 15.0% 16.7% 2.1%
ETtoday May 17, 2018 36.4% 37.5% 13.4% 12.7% 1.1%
Liberty Times Net May 21, 2018 39% 41% - 19% 2%
Liberty Times Net May 21, 2018 38% 39% 8% 16% 1%
Taiwan Brain Trust May 22, 2018 41.3% 36.1% 22.6% 5.2%
Taiwan Brain Trust May 22, 2018 39.4% 33.6% 13.8% 13.2% 5.8%
Hsih Shin University May 28, 2018 29.0% 29.1% 13.5% 28.4% 0.1%
TVBS June 1, 2018 31% 33% 13% 23% 2%
China Times June 4, 2018 34.7% 40.2% 12.2% 12.9% 5.5%
CM Media July 11, 2018 38.9% 27.5% 11.0% 22.6% 9.4%
Formosa2 July 12, 2018 38.7% 30.5% 16.4% 6.2% 8.2%
Polls3 July 16, 2018 43.4% 31.8% 8.9% 15.9% 11.6%
TVBS July 24, 2018 40.0% 30.0% 11.0% 19.0% 10%
ETtoday July 30, 2018 42.4% 30.9% 5.4% 21.3% 11.5%
Liberty Times Net4 September 1, 2018 33.43% 24.71% 14.90% 26.96% 8.72%
ETtoday5 September 9, 2018 41.7% 29.9% 8.4% 13.3% 11.8%
Shih Hsin University6 September 12, 2018 34.9% 30.8% 10.4% 21.9% 4.1%
TVBS7 September 16, 2018 37% 32% 11% 20% 5%
Formosa8 September 18, 2018 34.6% 23.5% 11.1% 23.6% 11.1%
UDN9 September 19, 2018 37% 29% 8% 25% 8%
Sanli10 September 29, 2018 36.1% 25.8% 11.1% 25.2% 10.3%
Apollo October 5, 2018 41.6% 27.2% 15.2% 16% 14.4%
Formosa11 October 12, 2018 37.5% 25.0% 11.3% 14.7% 12.5%
Taiwan Public Opinion Foundation12 October 16, 2018 42.1% 28.5% 11.6% 15.2% 13.6%
TVBS13 October 25, 2018 40% 33% 12% 13% 7%
TVBS14 October 25, 2018 34% 29% 11% 12% 5%
Taiwan Competitiveness Forum 15 October 29, 2018 36.6% 34.3% 12.7% 15.7% 2.3%
UDN16 October 30, 2018 38% 35% 8% 18% 3%
Democratic Progressive Party17 October 31, 2018 35.9% 24.4% 19.7% 17.1% 11.5%
Shih Shin University18 Archived 2018-11-09 at the Wayback Machine November 7, 2018 34.1% 31.4% 7.1% 25.9% 2.7%
Formosa19 November 7, 2018 38.6% 27.1% 8.3% 18.0% 11.5%
ETtoday November 8, 2018 38.4% 36.8% 7.6% 17.2% 1.6%
China Times November 11, 2018 33.6% 32.8% 14.6% 17.1% 0.8%
TVBS November 11, 2018 39% 36% 12% 13% 3%
Notes – results for independent candidates:

1 Lee Si-kuen(1.4%)
2 Lee Si-kuen(1.5%)
3 Lee Si-kuen(2.8%)
4 Lee Si-kuen(2.35%)
5 Lee Si-kuen(1.1%)
6 Lee Si-kuen(1.9%); Wu E-yang(0.1%)
7 Lee Si-kuen(1%); Wu E-yang(0.1%)
8 Lee Si-kuen(1.3%); Wu E-yang(0.1%)
9 Lee Si-kuen(1%); Wu E-yang(1%)
10 Lee Si-kuen(1.5%); Wu E-yang(0.3%)
11 Lee Si-kuen(1.9%); Wu E-yang(0.7%)
12 Lee Si-kuen(2.4%); Wu E-yang(0.2%)
13 Lee Si-kuen(1.0%); Wu E-yang(0.0%)
14 Lee Si-kuen(1.0%); Wu E-yang(0.0%)
15 Lee Si-kuen(0.6%); Wu E-yang(0.1%)
16 Lee Si-kuen(1.0%); Wu E-yang(0.1%)
17 Lee Si-kuen(2.9%)
18 Lee Si-kuen(1.4%); Wu E-yang(0.1%)
19 Lee Si-kuen(1.5%); Wu E-yang(0.2%)

Predictions

Poll organization Date of completion Turnout Ko Wen-je Ting Shou-chung Pasuya Yao Lee Si-kuen
Formosa September 20, 2018 >70% 47.4%-49.6% 30.7%-33.1% 16.9%-19.0% 1.3%-1.7%
TVBS October 25, 2018 71% 44% 40% 15% -
Formosa November 7, 2018 >70% 49.1% ~ 52.7% 30.2% ~ 34.4% 14.1% ~ 16.1% -
TVBS November 11, 2018 73% 46% 40% 13% -

Results
According to Civil Servants Election And Recall Act article 69, because Independent Ko Wen-je and Kuomintang's Ting Shou-chung vote percentages are within 0.30 margin, Kuomintang's Ting Shou-chung was entitled to, and did, call for a recount.[16][17][18]

  Ko lead > 1,300
  Ko lead > 300
  Ko lead < 300
  Ting lead < 300
  Ting lead > 300
  Ting lead > 1,300
District Wu E-yang Ting Shou-chung Pasuya Yao Ko Wen-je Lee Si-kuen
Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes %
Songshan District (松山區) 428 0.40 46,381 43.36 17,387 16.25 42,356 39.60 420 0.39
Xinyi District (信義區) 502 0.41 53,955 43.99 19,934 16.25 47,762 38.94 512 0.42
Daan District (大安區) 585 0.37 72,325 45.73 23,651 14.95 60,939 38.53 662 0.42
Zhongshan District (中山區) 476 0.39 46,746 38.38 23,483 19.28 50,604 41.55 491 0.40
Zhongzheng District (中正區) 370 0.46 33,897 41.83 12,633 15.59 33,752 41.65 378 0.47
Datong District (大同區) 266 0.38 20,763 29.69 16,896 24.16 31,679 45.29 339 0.48
Wanhua District (萬華區) 427 0.41 38,666 37.05 21,400 20.50 43,411 41.59 464 0.44
Wenshan District (文山區) 707 0.49 68,586 47.15 18,985 13.05 56,479 38.83 713 0.49
Nangang District (南港區) 287 0.43 26,282 39.45 10,830 16.26 28,896 43.37 325 0.49
Neihu District (内湖區) 548 0.37 61,566 41.02 21,746 14.49 65,599 43.70 639 0.43
Shilin District (士林區) 522 0.34 55,954 36.46 33,110 21.57 63,247 41.21 651 0.42
Beitou District (北投區) 499 0.37 52,445 39.08 24,586 18.32 56,096 41.80 578 0.43
2018 Taipei City mayoral results[19]
No. Candidate Party Votes Percentage
1 Wu E-yang (吳蕚洋) Independent 5,617 0.40%
2 Ting Shou-chung (丁守中) Kuomintang 577,566 40.82%
3 Pasuya Yao (姚文智) Democratic Progressive Party 244,641 17.29%
4 Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) Independent 580,820 41.05%
5 Lee Si-kuen (李錫錕) Independent 6,172 0.44%
Total voters  2,164,155
Valid votes  1,414,816
Invalid votes  
Voter turnout  65.37%

Political context prior to the elections

New Taipei City
Highest vote share
Party Year Vote share %
Democratic Progressive Party 2016 presidential election 55%
Kuomintang 2008 presidential election 61%
2016 election results
Party Presidential % Legislative seats Legislative %
Democratic Progressive Party 54.79% 9 46.74%
Kuomintang 33.34% 2 40.12%
New Power Party - 1 4.13%
Taiwan Solidarity Union - 0 -
People First Party 11.87% 0 0.84%
Independent/Others - 0 8.17%

Results of the primary

2018 Kuomintang New Taipei City mayoral primary results
Candidates Place Results
Hou You-yi Nominated 55.596%
Chou Hsi-wei 2nd 34.210%
Jin Jie-shou 3rd 10.194%
2018 Democratic Progressive Party New Taipei City mayoral primary results
Candidates Place Result
Su Tseng-chang Called In Walkover

Opinion polls

Poll organization Date of completion Su Tseng-chang Hou You-yi Undecided Lead
TVBS December 6, 2017 39.0% 48.0% 13.0% 9%
Formosa January 12, 2018 41.7% 41.5% 17.8% 0.2%
China Times February 26, 2018 33.6% 53.8% 12.6% 20.6%
ETtoday March 1, 2018 27.4% 51.4% 21.2% 24%
DPP March 24, 2018 39.0% 39.1% 21.9% 0.1%
Apollo April 1, 2018 26.4% 54.3% 19.3% 26.9%
Apple Daily April 7, 2018 27.54% 61.37% 11.09% 33.83%
Taiwan Nextgen Foundation April 11, 2018 42.6% 41.7% 15.7% 0.9%
ETtoday April 11, 2018 22.7% 46.4% 30.9% 23.9%
TVBS April 12, 2018 32.0% 40.0% 28.0% 8%
UDN May 1, 2018 26.0% 45.0% 29.0% 19%
China Times May 1, 2018 27.1% 50.6% 22.3% 23.5%
Taiwan Brain Trust May 22, 2018 30.7% 44.3% 25% 13.6%
Formosa June 15, 2018 23.6% 41.7% 34.7% 18.1%
TVBS June 25, 2018 31.0% 48.0% 21.0% 17%
Taiwan Nextgen Foundation June 29, 2018 38.3% 41.0% 20.7% 2.7%
TVBS July 17, 2018 29.0% 48.0% 23.0% 19%
CM Media July 26, 2018 31.1% 46.3% 22.6% 15.2%
Taiwan Brain Trust July 27, 2018 40.6% 42.6% 16.8% 2%
ETtoday August 10, 2018 24.2% 45.2% 30.6% 11%
Taiwan Think Tank August 31, 2018 43.2% 43.9% 12.9% 0.7%
Liberty Times Net September 7, 2018 30.89% 39.86% 29.25% 8.97%
Shih Hsin University Archived 2018-09-17 at the Wayback Machine September 14, 2018 29.4% 40.2% 30.4% 10.8%
Formosa September 14, 2018 28.2% 41.7% 18.1% 13.5%
TVBS September 16, 2018 32% 48% 20% 16%
UDN September 17, 2018 24% 48% 28% 24%
Taiwan Think Tank September 22, 2018 40.9% 44.3% 14.8% 4.6%
Apollo October 7, 2018 32.8% 49.4% 15.6% 16.6%
DPP Archived 2018-11-02 at the Wayback Machine October 14, 2018 39.1% 39.3% 21.6% 0.2%
Apollo October 16, 2018 31% 49.1% 19% 18.1%
TVBS October 18, 2018 30% 50% 21% 20%
Formosa October 26, 2018 22.5% 44.4% 19% 21.9%
UDN Archived 2018-11-05 at the Wayback Machine November 2, 2018 26% 54% 20% 29%
Sanli November 3, 2018 39.2% 40.2% 20.6% 1%
Shih Shin University Archived 2018-11-21 at the Wayback Machine November 8, 2018 30.7% 36.4% 32.9% 5.7%
ETtoday November 8, 2018 34% 39.9% 26.1% 5.9%
Sanli November 12, 2018 43.7% 44% 12.3% 0.3%
TVBS November 12, 2018 34% 48% 18% 14%

Predictions

Poll organization Date of completion Turnout Hou You-yi Su Tseng-chang
Formosa September 20, 2018 51.5% ~ 53% 47% ~ 48.5%
TVBS October 19, 2018 62% 56% 44%
TVBS November 12, 2018 70% 55% 45%

Results

District Su Tseng-chang Hou You-yi
Votes % Votes %
Banqiao District (板橋區) 131,905 46.03 154,687 53.97
Sanchong District (三重區) 100,823 50.22 99,925 49.78
Zhonghe District (中和區) 80,552 36.69 139,022 63.31
Yonghe District (永和區) 38,286 32.54 79,362 67.46
Xingzhuang District (新莊區) 101,046 48.28 108,240 51.72
Xindian District (新店區) 49,933 31.27 109,759 68.73
Shulin District (樹林區) 41,600 45.87 49,090 54.13
Yingge District (鶯歌區) 20,360 46.51 23,419 53.49
Sanxia District (三峽區) 23,653 42.64 31,822 57.36
Danshui District (淡水區) 33,763 39.67 51,336 60.33
Xizhi District (汐止區) 38,639 38.72 61,139 61.28
Ruifang District (瑞芳區) 8,038 37.51 13,393 62.49
Tucheng District (土城區) 51,932 43.85 66,487 56.15
Luzhou District (蘆洲區) 48,350 50.56 47,271 49.44
Wugu District (五股區) 20,372 47.77 22,276 52.23
Taishan District (泰山區) 17,627 45.77 20,885 54.23
Linkou District (林口區) 20,883 40.92 30,150 59.08
Shenkeng District (深坑區) 5,153 40.03 7,720 59.97
Shiding District (石碇區) 2,488 52.27 2,272 47.73
Pinglin District (坪林區) 2,255 55.46 1,811 44.54
Sanzhi District (三芝區) 4,915 40.60 7,191 59.40
Shimen District (石門區) 2,928 41.30 4,162 58.70
Bali District (八里區) 8,982 46.00 10,545 54.00
Pingxi District (平溪區) 1,417 46.72 1,616 53.28
Shuangxi District (雙溪區) 2,423 44.18 3,062 55.82
Gongliao District (貢寮區) 3,698 54.21 3,123 45.79
Jinshan District (金山區) 5,344 46.11 6,246 53.89
Wanli District (萬里區) 4,928 42.95 6,547 57.05
Wulai District (烏來區) 1,399 35.23 2,572 64.77
2018 New Taipei City mayoral results[26]
No. Candidate Party Votes Percentage
1 Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) Democratic Progressive Party 873,692 42.85%
2 Hou You-yi (侯友宜) Kuomintang 1,165,130 57.15%
Total voters  3,264,128
Valid votes  2,038,822
Invalid votes  50,305
Voter turnout  62.46%

Political context prior to the elections

Taoyuan City
Highest vote share
Party Year Vote share %
Democratic Progressive Party 1997 local election 56%
Kuomintang 2008 presidential election 65%
2016 election results
Party Presidential % Legislative seats Legislative %
Democratic Progressive Party 51.03% 3 39.48%
Kuomintang 34.39% 2 45.20%
New Power Party - 0 0.78%
Taiwan Solidarity Union - 0 -
People First Party 14.59% 0 -
Independent/Others - 1 14.54%

Results of the primary

2018 Democratic Progressive Party Taichung City mayoral primary results
Candidates Place Result
Cheng Wen-tsan Nominated Walkover
2018 Kuomintang Taoyuan City mayoral primary results
Candidates Place Results
Apollo Chen Nominated 35.689%
Lu Ming-zhe 2nd 33.067%
Yang Li-huan 3rd 31.245%

Opinion polls

Poll organization Date of completion Cheng Wen-tsan Apollo Chen Yang Li-huan Not sure Lead
TVBS June 24, 2017 61% 21% - 18% 40%
Yam News October 24, 2017 48.82% 51.18% - 0% 2.36%
GSSC November 1, 2017 54.3% 25.1% - 20.6% 29.2%
TISR December 13, 2017 53.6% 20.2% - 26.2% 33.4%
ETtoday April 2, 2018 46.7% 31.7% - 21.6% 15%
Taiwan Brain Trust May 22, 2018 61.4% 17.8% - 20.8% 43.6%
China Times June 12, 2018 51.5% 24.9% - 21.5% 26.6%
I'm Taiwanese June 23, 2018 59.3% 29.6% - 11.1% 29.7%
TVBS July 20, 2018 56% 20% - 24% 36%
Liberty Times Net August 10, 2018 56.2% 16.0% - 27.8% 40.2%
ETtoday1 August 20, 2018 50.7% 23.8% 25.5% 26.9%
TVBS2 September 16, 2018 56% 17% 6% 25.5% 39%
Shih Hsin University3 Archived 2018-09-22 at the Wayback Machine September 4, 2018 42.3% 18.5% 5.4% 33.7% 23.8%
UDN4 September 25, 2018 51% 16% 6% 26% 35%
Shih Hsin University5 November 20, 2018 36.9% 26.8% 2.4% 32.9% 10.1%
Sanli6 November 7, 2018 58.1% 16.9% 4.5% 18.0% 41.2%
ETtoday November 8, 2018 45.9% 27.6% -% 26.5% 18.3%
Note:* Opinion polls includes independent candidates.

1 Chu Mei-sheue(1.9%)
2 Chu Mei-sheue(0.1%); Wu Fu-tun(0%)
3 Chu Mei-sheue(0.0%); Wu Fu-tun(0.1%)
4 Chu Mei-sheue(0.3%); Wu Fu-tun(0.1%)
5 Chu Mei-sheue(0.9%); Wu Fu-tun(0.1%)
6 Chu Mei-sheue(2.4%); Wu Fu-tun(0.1%)

Results

2018 桃園市市長選舉各里得票
2018 桃園市市長選舉各里得票人口變形圖
District Chu Mei-sheue Apollo Chen Yang Li-huan Wu Fu-tun Cheng Wen-tsan
Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes %
Taoyuan District (桃園區) 4,084 2.10 73,799 37.98 14,752 7.59 424 0.22 101,241 52.11
Zhongli District (中壢區) 3,250 1.68 88,154 45.69 6,829 3.54 561 0.29 94,164 48.80
Daxi District (大溪區) 610 1.28 16,271 34.10 1,897 3.98 190 0.40 28,746 60.25
Yangmei District (楊梅區) 1,204 1.55 32,538 41.85 3,387 4.36 348 0.45 40,272 51.80
Luzhu District (蘆竹區) 1,610 2.23 24,164 33.50 4,197 5.82 214 0.30 41,938 58.15
Dayuan District (大園區) 795 1.77 13,865 30.80 2,508 5.57 201 0.45 27,652 61.42
Guishan District (龜山區) 1,372 1.89 26,791 36.96 4,071 5.62 256 0.35 39,998 55.18
Bade District (八德區) 1,633 1.74 36,314 38.61 4,174 4.44 273 0.29 51,667 54.93
Longtan District (龍潭區) 979 1.64 27,385 45.77 2,296 3.84 568 0.95 28,610 47.81
Pingzhen District (平鎮區) 1,694 1.58 45,697 42.62 3,846 3.59 483 0.45 55,507 51.77
Xinwu District (新屋區) 370 1.29 9,164 31.94 1,434 5.00 141 0.49 17,581 61.28
Guanyin District (觀音區) 556 1.64 10,126 29.80 1,833 5.39 176 0.52 21,285 62.65
Fuxing District (復興區) 43 0.61 2,966 42.35 294 4.20 32 0.46 3,669 52.38
2018 Taoyuan City mayoral results[29]
No. Candidate Party Votes Percentage
1 Chu Mei-sheue (朱梅雪) Independent 18,200 1.76%
2 Apollo Chen (陳學聖) Kuomintang 407,234 39.42%
3 Yang Li-huan (楊麗環) Independent 51,518 4.99%
4 Wu Fu-tun (吳富彤) Independent 3,867 0.37%
5 Cheng Wen-tsan (鄭文燦) Democratic Progressive Party 552,330 53.46%
Total voters  1,732,591
Valid votes  1,033,149
Invalid votes  
Voter turnout  59.63%

Political context prior to the elections

Taichung City is the second largest metropolis in Taiwan, serves as the economic, cultural and transportation hub in the central part of Taiwan. It was merged and reorganized at the end of 2010 by Taichung County and Taichung City forming Taichung City.[30] The former Taichung County was controlled by the Kuomintang except in 1997, the Democratic Progressive Party's Liao Yung-lai was elected as the county mayor.

Taichung City before in the 1980s are held by Independent or Kuomintang's Zhang and Lai factions. In the 1980s, the Kuomintang changed its nomination strategy to regain its power, by choosing non-faction candidates defeated Tzeng Wen-po (曾文坡), who is seeking for re-election in 1981, starting a four straight terms in 16 years. In 1997, the Democratic Progressive Party's Chang Wen-ying was elected for Taichung City mayor due to the Pan blue coalition split.[31]

In 2001, Kuomintang's Jason Hu was elected as Taichung City mayor until 2010's merger and won the third term as the first mayor of the newly formed Taichung City with 36,351 votes.[32] In 2014, Democratic Progressive Party's candidate Lin Chia-lung won 57% of the votes, elected as the Taichung City mayor due to unhappiness towards the Kuomintang government.

Taichung City
Highest vote share
Party Year Vote share %
Democratic Progressive Party 2014 local election 57%
Kuomintang 2008 presidential election 60%
2016 election results
Party Presidential % Legislative seats Legislative %
Democratic Progressive Party 55.01% 4 39.26%
Kuomintang 29.82% 3 43.03%
New Power Party - 1 6.58%
Taiwan Solidarity Union - 0 5.92%
People First Party 15.1731% 0 -
Independent - 0 5.21%

Results of the primary

2018 Democratic Progressive Party Taichung City mayoral primary results
Candidates Place Result
Lin Chia-lung Nominated Walkover
2018 Kuomintang Taichung City mayoral primary results
Candidates Place Results
Lu Shiow-yen Nominated 50.308%
Johnny Chiang 2nd 49.692%

Opinion polls

Poll organization Dates conducted Lin Chia-lung Lu Shiow-yen Not sure Lead
TISR July 20, 2017 40.1% 28.8% 31.1% 11.3%
Apollo Archived 2018-02-10 at the Wayback Machine August 3, 2017 44.2% 32.2% 23.4% 12%
TVBS August 29, 2017 52% 32.0% 16.0% 20%
Sanli September 5, 2017 49.5% 23.8% 26.7% 15.7%
China Times November 1, 2017 44.4% 29.3% 26.3% 15.1%
ETtoday November 3, 2017 37.0% 34.1% 28.9% 2.9%
Formosa November 7, 2017 37.4% 33.1% 29.5% 4.3%
GSSC November 28, 2017 52.1% 28.0% 19.9% 24.1%
Sanli December 6, 2017 47.7% 25.3% 27.0% 22.4%
TISR December 6, 2017 40.1% 17.2% 42.7% 22.9%
Era Com December 28, 2017 36.1% 35.1% 28.8% 1%
Formosa February 9, 2018 35.8% 37.6% 26.6% 1.8%
China Times February 12, 2018 36.4% 30.6% 33.0% 5.8%
ETtoday March 5, 2018 32.6% 32.0% 35.4% 0.6%
ETtoday March 14, 2018 47.1% 33.7% 19.2% 13.4%
TISR April 21, 2018 31.9% 23.7% 44.4% 8.2%
Apollo May 3, 2018 33.0% 35.7% 31.3% 2.7%
Taiwan Brain Trust May 22, 2018 43.0% 32.2% 24.8% 10.8%
UDN May 28, 2018 32.0% 39.0% 29.0% 7%
Kuomintang May 28, 2018 33.0% 39.7% 27.3% 6.7%
TVBS July 20, 2018 33.0% 39.0% 28.0% 6%
Taiwan Brain Trust July 31, 2018 37.8% 35.6% 26.6% 2.2%
CM Media July 31, 2018 43.9% 31.1% 25.0% 12.8%
Cross Strait Association July 31, 2018 43.2% 24.4% 32.4% 18.8%
Taiwan Competitiveness Forum August 10, 2018 35.8% 38.0% 28.0% 2.2%
ETtoday August 14, 2018 31.0% 35.6% 23.7% 4.6%
Liberty News Net August 24, 2018 38.52% 32.41% 29.07% 6.11%
Taiwan Brain Trust August 27, 2018 42% 33.5% 24.5% 8.5%
UDN September 13, 2018 33% 34% 32% 1%
TISR September 15, 2018 26.8% 28.6% 32.8% 1.8%
Shih Shin University3 September 15, 2018 30.3% 30.9% 38.7% 0.6%
TVBS4 September 16, 2018 35% 38% 27% 3%
China Times5 September 26, 2018 38.1% 40.2% 15.9% 2.1%
Kuomintang September 30, 2018 33.6% 40.1% 24.6% 6.5%
CM Media6 October 4, 2018 40% 34.6% 22.3% 5.4%
Taiwan Next Gen Foundation October 14, 2018 41.4% 31.1% 27.5% 10.3%
Formosa7 October 17, 2018 25.6% 31% 29.3% 5.4%
TVBS8 October 22, 2018 36% 44% 19% 8%
Taiwan Competitiveness Forum9 Archived 2018-10-30 at the Wayback Machine October 27, 2018 27.1% 34.4% 30.3% 7.3%
Formosa10 November 1, 2018 28.7% 35.7% 21.7% 7%
CM Media10 November 3, 2018 39.2% 33.4% 23% 5.8%
ETtoday12 November 4, 2018 31.8% 42.6% 19.6% 10.8%
UDN13 November 5, 2018 30% 43% 25% 13%
Sanli14 November 6, 2018 45.1% 34% 18.3% 11.1%
ETtoday November 8, 2018 31.7% 45.4% 22.9% 13.7%
Shih Shin University15 November 10, 2018 32.0% 34.4% 32.8% 2.4%
Taiwan Next Gen Foundation November 11, 2018 41.4% 35.6% 23% 5.8%
TVBS16 November 12, 2018 39% 41% 19% 2%
Note:* Opinion polls includes independent candidates.

1 Sung Antony(0.1%)
2 Sung Antony(2.3%)
3 Sung Antony(1.1%)
4 Sung Antony(3%)
5 Sung Antony(4.6%)
6 Sung Antony(1.6%)
7 Sung Antony(3.3%)
8 Sung Antony(1.0%)
9 Sung Antony(2.4%)
10 Sung Antony(2.4%)
11 Sung Antony(2.7%)
12 Sung Antony(1.4%)
13 Sung Antony(2.0%)
14 Sung Antony(2.5%)
15 Sung Antony(0.8%)
16 Sung Antony(1.0%)
a:Negative Vote Association

Predictions

Poll organization Date of completion Turnout Lu Shiow-yen Lin Chia-lung Sung Antony
TVBS October 22, 2018 71% 50% 49% 1%
Formosa October 26, 2018 83.9% 49% ~ 51.4% 45% ~ 47.2% 2.9% ~ 4.3%

Results

District Sung Antony Lin Chia-lung Lu Shiow-yen
Votes % Votes % Votes %
Central District (中區) 86 0.94 4,173 45.77 4,859 53.29
East District (東區) 458 1.10 19,078 45.87 22,055 53.03
South District (南區) 658 0.99 28,330 42.77 37,250 56.24
West District (西區) 618 1.03 25,616 42.86 33,534 56.11
North District (北區) 745 0.97 30,187 39.36 45,769 59.67
Xitun District (西屯區) 1,083 0.97 43,307 38.73 67,437 60.30
Nantun District (南屯區) 914 1.08 34,396 40.73 49,134 58.19
Beitun District (北屯區) 1,268 0.91 53,504 38.42 84,485 60.67
Fengyuan District (豐原區) 986 1.10 42,504 47.27 46,436 51.64
Dongshi District (東勢區) 330 1.13 10,727 36.64 18,216 62.23
Dajia District (大甲區) 484 1.15 18,523 44.14 22,958 54.71
Qingshui District (清水區) 525 1.07 22,912 46.80 25,523 52.13
Shalu District (沙鹿區) 530 1.10 20,835 43.27 26,784 55.63
Wuqi District (梧棲區) 365 1.19 14,663 47.67 15,729 51.14
Houli District (后里區) 420 1.36 12,815 41.46 17,677 57.18
Shengang District (神崗區) 424 1.16 18,095 49.65 17,928 49.19
Tanzi District (潭子區) 581 1.01 24,836 43.30 31,938 55.68
Daya District (大雅區) 592 1.21 20,342 41.74 27,797 57.04
Xinshe District (新社區) 209 1.39 6,009 40.10 8,767 58.51
Shigang District (石岡區) 110 1.21 3,571 39.35 5,393 59.43
Waipu District (外埔區) 215 1.17 7,124 38.76 11,040 60.07
Da'an District (大安區) 148 1.24 5,009 42.13 6,732 56.62
Wuri District (烏日區) 465 1.15 16,911 41.93 22,951 56.91
Dadu District (大肚區) 388 1.22 13,558 42.68 17,821 56.10
Longjing District (龍井區) 572 1.38 18,048 43.62 22,757 55.00
Wufeng District (霧峰區) 415 1.11 16,151 43.07 20,936 55.83
Taiping District (太平區) 1,057 1.12 40,025 42.27 53,613 56.62
Dali District (大里區) 1,202 1.14 46,571 44.23 57,527 54.63
Heping District (和平區) 71 1.01 2,035 28.84 4,950 70.15
2018 Taichung City mayoral results
No. Candidate Party Votes Percentage
1 Sung Antony (宋原通) Independent 15,919 1.09%
2 Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍) Democratic Progressive Party 619,855 42.35%
3 Lu Shiow-yen (盧秀燕) Kuomintang 827,996 56.57%
Total voters  2,213,789
Valid votes  1,463,770
Invalid votes  
Voter turnout  66.12%

Political context prior to the elections

Tainan City is located in Taiwan's Chia-Nan Plain, is a cultural capital for its history. Tainan City was merged and reorganized at the end of 2010, merging with Tainan County of Taiwan Province.[33]

The original Tainan County in the 1990s, Kuomintang local faction took turns taking control. However, Tainan County turned blue to green until Democratic Progressive Party's candidate Mark Chen became the mayor in 1993 until the merger between the county and the city was since led by the Democratic Progressive Party.[34]

The original Tainan City was dominated by Independents and the Kuomintang government for many years before the 1990s. Since 1997, the Democratic Progressive Party candidate Helen Chang was elected mayor, the former Tainan City since had been governed by the Democratic Progressive Party at the county level. After the merger of counties and cities in 2010, the DPP's William Lai was also elected as mayor.[35]

Tainan City
Highest vote share
Party Year Vote share %
Democratic Progressive Party 2014 local election 73%
Kuomintang 2008 presidential election 46%
2016 election results
Party Presidential % Legislative seats Legislative %
Democratic Progressive Party 67.52% 5 69.95%
Kuomintang 22.07% 0 24.80%
New Power Party - 0 0.69%
Taiwan Solidarity Union - 0 -
People First Party 10.41% 0 -
Independent/Others - 0 4.56%

Results of the primary

2018 Democratic Progressive Party Tainan City mayoral primary results
Candidates Place Results
Huang Wei-cher Nominated 41.58%
Chen Ting-fei 2nd 28.17%
Yen Chun-zuo 3rd 6.72%
Wang Ding-yu 4th 5.13%
Li Jun-yi 5th 2.11%
Yeh Yi-jin 6th 0.76%
2018 Kuomintang Tainan City mayoral primary results
Candidates Place Result
Kao Su-po Nominated Results not released
Huang Hsiu-shuang 2nd Results not released

Opinion polls

Poll organization Dates conducted Huang Wei-cher Kao Su-po Lin Yi-feng Not sure Lead
Taiwan Brain Trust1 May 22, 2018 42.3% 18.7% 30.6% 23.6%
ETtoday May 24, 2018 31.2% 18.5% 2.9% 30.2% 12.7%
China Times2 June 11, 2018 40.3% 17.3% 29.7% 23%
Evidence-Based3 June 25, 2018 37.8% 8.0% 4.7% 41.7% 29.8%
TVBS4 July 6, 2018 41% 15% 7% 20% 26%
Taiwan Competitiveness Forum5 Archived 2019-02-15 at the Wayback Machine July 13, 2018 31.7% 16.1% 6.6% 32.3% 15.6%
Era Com6 Archived 2018-07-18 at the Wayback Machine July 14, 2018 36.66% 13.09% 8.21% 28.99% 23.57%
Evidence Based7 August 3, 2018 40.0% 12.1% 11.9% 25.6% 27.9%
Liberty News Net8 August 17, 2018 40.6% 11.6% 9.7% 32% 29%
ETtoday August 27, 2018 31.3% 15.9% 14.1% 26.7% 15.4%
Real Survey9 September 6, 2018 24.5% 16.4% 12.0% 39% 8.1%
Evidence Based10 September 11, 2018 35.8% 14.1% 14.3% 24.7% 11.7%
Kao Su-po Campaign Team11 September 13, 2018 22.9% 19.0% 13.9% 33.8% 3.9%
DPP September 13, 2018 39.9% 14.7% 14.6% 26.5% 25.2%
Shih Shin University12 Archived 2018-09-20 at the Wayback Machine September 13, 2018 23.9% 13.8% 5.9% 48.1% 10.1%
TVBS13 September 16, 2018 33% 14% 13% 40% 19%
UDN14 September 25, 2018 31% 12% 14% 35% 17%
Kao Su-po Campaign Team15 Archived 2018-10-17 at the Wayback Machine October 3, 2018 28.1% 20.1% 11.8% 28.5% 8%
ETtoday October 7, 2018 30.8% 19.1% 14.2% 22.1% 11.7%
Evidence Based16 October 9, 2018 34.5% 13.6% 15.3% 28.1% 19.2%
Taiwan Competitiveness Forum17 October 19. 2018 27.5% 20.3% 10.9% 31.6% 7.2%
Evidence Based18 October 26. 2018 31.7% 15.5% 12.9% 32.5% 16.2%
China Times19 October 28. 2018 24.6% 17.6% 15.7% 35.7% 7%
Taiwan Competitiveness Forum20 Archived 2018-11-08 at the Wayback Machine November 4, 2018 29.1% 25.9% 12.6% 18.9% 3.2%
Shih Shin University21 Archived 2018-11-09 at the Wayback Machine November 5, 2018 25.6% 21.1% 6.5% 40.7% 4.5%
ETtoday November 8, 2018 30.5% 19.1% 17.6% 33.2% 11.4%
Taiwan Competitiveness Forum22 Archived 2018-11-12 at the Wayback Machine November 9, 2018 30.4% 31.6% 10.6% 16.7% 1.2%
Note:* Opinion polls includes independent candidates.

1 Hsu Chun-hsin(8.4%)
2 Hsu Chun-hsin(5.9%)
3 Hsu Chun-hsin(3.4%)
4 Su Huan-chih(8%); Hsu Chun-hsin(3%)
5 Su Huan-chih(6.2%); Hsu Chun-hsin(3.7%)
6 Su Huan-chih(7.35%); Hsu Chun-hsin(3.25%)
7 Su Huan-chih(3.5%); Hsu Chun-hsin(3.7%)
8 Su Huan-chih(2.0%); Hsu Chun-hsin(2.7%)
9 Su Huan-chih(4.3%); Hsu Chun-hsin(3.8%)
10 Su Huan-chih(6.7%); Hsu Chun-hsin(3.9%); Chen Yung-ho(0.2%)
11 Su Huan-chih(6.2%); Hsu Chun-hsin(4.2%); Chen Yung-ho(0.4%)
12 Su Huan-chih(4.9%); Hsu Chun-hsin(3%); Chen Yung-ho(0.4%)
13 Su Huan-chih(6%); Hsu Chun-hsin(3%); Chen Yung-ho(0.4%)
14 Su Huan-chih(5%); Hsu Chun-hsin(2%); Chen Yung-ho(1%)
15 Su Huan-chih(4.8%); Hsu Chun-hsin(5.8%); Chen Yung-ho(1%)
16 Su Huan-chih(4.3%); Hsu Chun-hsin(3.1%); Chen Yung-ho(0.2%)
17 Su Huan-chih(4.6%); Hsu Chun-hsin(4.4%); Chen Yung-ho(0.7%)
18 Su Huan-chih(3%); Hsu Chun-hsin(3.2%); Chen Yung-ho(1.2%)
19 Su Huan-chih(3.2%); Hsu Chun-hsin(2.5%); Chen Yung-ho(0.6%)
20(11.6%)
21 Su Huan-chih(4.9%); Hsu Chun-hsin(3.0%); Chen Yung-ho(1.4%)
22(8.6%)

Results

  Huang lead > 950
  Huang lead > 240
  Huang lead < 240
  Kao lead < 240
  Kao lead > 240
  Kao lead > 950
District Huang Wei-cher Kao Su-po Lin Yi-feng Hsu Chun-hsin Chen Yung-ho Su Huan-chih
Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes %
Sinying District (新營區) 13,462 35.26 14,120 36.98 4,359 11.42 1,616 4.23 3,176 8.32 1,448 3.79
Yanshuei District (鹽水區) 6,555 45.92 3,981 27.89 1,618 11.33 566 3.96 862 6.04 694 4.86
Baihe District (白河區) 7,130 46.44 4,715 30.71 1,371 8.93 562 3.66 705 4.59 871 5.67
Liouying District (柳營區) 5,212 42.68 3,630 29.72 1,578 12.92 506 4.14 777 6.36 510 4.18
Houbi District (後壁區) 6,345 45.95 3,940 28.53 1,458 10.56 552 4.00 662 4.79 852 6.17
Dongshan District (東山區) 4,627 42.01 3,742 33.97 1,111 10.09 495 4.49 475 4.30 565 5.13
Madou District (麻豆區) 11,716 48.58 5,630 23.34 2,086 8.65 1,402 5.81 2,343 9.71 941 3.90
Xiaying District (下營區) 5,492 42.59 3,767 29.21 1,449 11.24 664 5.15 1,031 8.00 492 3.82
Lioujia District (六甲區) 5,309 43.24 3,260 26.55 1,381 11.25 674 5.49 1,022 8.32 633 5.16
Guantian District (官田區) 5,514 45.37 3,107 25.56 1,265 10.41 678 5.58 1,025 8.43 565 4.65
Danei District (大內區) 2,271 39.13 1,687 29.07 673 11.60 397 6.84 481 8.29 295 5.08
Jiali District (佳里區) 12,783 40.53 9,178 29.10 3,005 9.53 2,001 6.34 3,366 10.67 1,205 3.82
Syuejia District (學甲區) 6,509 47.08 3,860 27.92 1,228 8.88 570 4.12 1,107 8.01 552 3.99
Sigang District (西港區) 6,041 43.79 3,593 26.05 1,387 10.06 722 5.23 1,536 11.14 515 3.73
Cigu District (七股區) 5,670 43.39 3,251 24.88 1,347 10.31 960 7.35 1,144 8.75 695 5.32
Jiangjyun District (將軍區) 5,438 45.68 3,109 26.12 1,115 9.37 873 7.33 912 7.66 457 3.84
Beimen District (北門區) 2,757 42.63 1,877 29.02 652 10.08 395 6.11 448 6.93 339 5.24
Sinhua District (新化區) 9,154 38.46 7,591 31.89 2,223 9.34 1,102 4.63 2,822 11.86 911 3.83
Shanhua District (善化區) 9,435 39.40 6,948 29.02 2,001 8.36 1,583 6.61 2,878 12.02 1,099 4.59
Sinshih District (新市區) 7,027 37.42 5,034 26.81 1,605 8.55 2,012 10.71 2,340 12.46 762 4.06
Anding District (安定區) 6,643 40.09 4,752 28.67 1,576 9.51 899 5.42 1,997 12.05 705 4.25
Shanshang District (山上區) 1,521 37.37 1,244 30.57 467 11.47 217 5.33 423 10.39 198 4.86
Yujing District (玉井區) 2,656 32.54 3,442 42.17 665 8.15 302 3.70 632 7.74 465 7.74
Nansi District (楠西區) 1,576 28.48 2,687 48.56 400 7.23 218 3.94 353 6.38 299 5.40
Nanhua District (南化區) 1,792 33.17 2,229 41.26 474 8.77 173 3.20 402 7.44 332 6.15
Zuojhen District (左鎮區) 1,233 41.80 939 31.83 195 6.61 211 7.15 221 7.49 151 5.12
Rende District (仁德區) 14,717 36.41 12,883 31.88 3,522 8.71 1,537 3.80 5,911 14.63 1,846 4.57
Gueiren District (歸仁區) 13,413 37.57 9,264 25.95 2,942 8.24 1,292 3.62 7,202 20.17 1,588 4.45
Guanmiao District (關廟區) 7,670 37.11 5,323 25.76 1,580 7.65 573 2.77 4,778 23.12 742 3.59
Longci District (龍崎區) 814 29.24 676 24.28 180 6.47 82 2.95 917 32.94 115 4.13
Yongkang District (永康區) 38,762 34.70 38,892 34.81 9,587 8.58 4,676 4.19 15,007 13.43 4,787 4.29
East District (東區) 28,636 32.27 36,041 40.61 5,457 6.15 3,522 3.97 11,681 13.16 3,410 3.84
South District (南區) 25,068 39.35 21,036 33.02 5,430 8.52 2,585 4.06 7,661 12.03 1,925 3.02
North District (北區) 22,694 34.49 24,690 37.52 4,510 6.85 2,851 4.33 8,547 12.99 2,515 3.82
Annan District (安南區) 36,754 38.42 27,865 29.13 9,225 9.64 4,807 5.02 13,357 13.96 3,655 3.82
Anping District (安平區) 10,276 34.24 11,056 36.84 2,479 8.26 1,034 3.45 4,075 13.58 1,088 3.63
West Central District (中西區) 14,846 37.54 13,835 34.98 2,552 6.45 1,859 4.70 4,904 12.40 1,556 3.93
2018 Tainan City mayoral results[36]
No. Candidate Party Votes Percentage
1 Huang Wei-cher (黃偉哲) Democratic Progressive Party 367,518 38.02%
2 Kao Su-po (高思博) Kuomintang 312,874 32.37%
3 Lin Yi-feng (林義豐) Independent 84,153 8.71%
4 Hsu Chun-hsin (許忠信) Independent 45,168 4.67%
5 Chen Yung-ho (陳永和) Independent 117,179 12.12%
6 Su Huan-chih (蘇煥智) Independent 39,778 4.11%
Total voters  1,546,862
Valid votes  966,670
Invalid votes  
Voter turnout  62.49%

Political context prior to the elections

17 November 2018 Han Kuo-yu's campaign rally in Fengshan, Kaohsiung

Kaohsiung is the third largest city in Taiwan and capital of the political and economic center of the southern region. The special municipality city is merged in 2010 with Kaohsiung County from Taiwan Province.[37] The former Kaohsiung County before the 1980s is led by the Kuomintang, and the independents until 1985 where Democratic Progressive Party has led the county until the merger of the county and city.

Since the implementation of local autonomy in 1950, the former Kaohsiung City has been led by the KMT except the 6th mayor Yang Jinhu, who was a non-KMT candidate. After Kaohsiung was elevated into a municipality in 1979, the mayor was appointed by the Central Government and opened up first election in 1994 where Kuomintang's Wu Den-yih was first elected mayor of the city. In 1998, the Democratic Progressive Party's Frank Hsieh won the mayoral election by a slim margin over the incumbent mayor Wu Den-yih, starting the DPP's straight 4 terms, 16 years rule until the merger.

Kaohsiung City
Highest vote share
Party Year Vote share %
Democratic Progressive Party 2014 local election 68%
Kuomintang 2008 legislative election 51%
2016 election results
Party Presidential % Legislative seats Legislative %
Democratic Progressive Party 63.39% 9 61%
Kuomintang 26.00% 0 34.86%
New Power Party - 0 1.06%
Taiwan Solidarity Union - 0 -
People First Party 10.60% 0 -
Independent/Others - 0 3.08%

Results of the primary

2018 Democratic Progressive Party Kaohsiung City mayoral primary results
Candidates Place DPP Focus Survey Research Statinc Aggregated Result
Chen Chi-mai Nominated 38.64% 32.61% 36.45% 35.90%
None of the candidates 32.71% 31.76% 34.74% 33.07%
Chao Tien-lin 2nd 12.63% 17.95% 12.77% 14.45%
Lin Tai-hua 3rd 10.69% 12.06% 10.92% 11.22%
Kuan Bi-ling 4th 5.33% 5.61% 5.12% 5.35%
2018 Kuomintang Kaohsiung City mayoral primary results
Candidates Place Result
Han Kuo-yu Nominated 64.898%
Arthur Chen 2nd 35.102%

Opinion polls

Poll organization Dates conducted Chen Chi-mai Han Kuo-yu Not sure Lead
TVBS August 15, 2017 59% 31% 10% 28%
Taiwan Brain Trust May 22, 2018 52% 21% 27% 31%
China Times May 29, 2018 39.5% 33.1% - 6.4%
All Opinions June 20, 2018 37.6% 26.2% 36.2% 11.4%
GSSC June 27, 2018 46.9% 23.9% 29.2% 23%
ETtoday1 June 27, 2018 32.0% 30.4% 24.7% 1.6%
TVBS July 4, 2018 40% 32% 28% 8%
GSSC July 27, 2018 45.7% 27.3% 21.7% 18.4%
Liberty Times Net August 3, 2018 38.46% 26.42% 35.22% 12.04%
Formosa August 13, 2018 38.9% 27.8% 33.3% 11.1%
Wu Yi-zheng Campaign Team August 17, 2018 33.5% 25.7% 34% 7.8%
ETtoday2 September 3, 2018 36.7% 31% 32.3% 5.7%
TVBS3 September 16, 2018 39% 35% 26% 4%
Shih Shin University4 September 16, 2018 33.8% 31.2% 35% 2.6%
CM Media September 18, 2018 41.2% 35.5% 22.9% 5.7%
TISR5 September 19, 2018 41% 30.2% 25.9% 10.8%
UDN6 September 20, 2018 34% 32% 31% 2%
TVBS8 October 16, 2018 35% 42% 21% 7%
Taiwan Next Gen Foundation9 October 19, 2018 39.8% 32.5% 24.7% 7.3%
Taiwan Competitiveness Forum10 Archived 2018-10-25 at the Wayback Machine October 22, 2018 32.7% 39% 26.3% 6.3%
Taiwan Competitiveness Forum11 October 31, 2018 32.3% 43.1% 22.7% 10.8%
Apollo12 November 2, 2018 36.2% 45.3% 14.6% 9.3%
Sanli13 November 4, 2018 44.3% 43.2% 11.1% 1.1%
TVBS14 November 6, 2018 38% 48% 14% 10%
Apollo15 November 7, 2018 37.6% 40.4% 10% 2.8%
CM Media16 November 8, 2018 39.1% 39.3% 20.3% 0.2%
ETtoday November 8, 2018 36.6% 42.6% 20.8% 6%
Taiwan Competitiveness Forum17 Archived 2018-11-12 at the Wayback Machine November 8, 2018 27.1% 44.1% 23.8% 17%
UDN18 November 12, 2018 32% 49% 16% 17%
Shih Shin University19 November 12, 2018 32.6% 35.4% 29.9% 2.8%
Apollo November 12, 2018 38.9% 42.5% 14.9% 3.6%
Sanli20 November 12, 2018 43.6% 40.5% 13.9% 3.1%
Note:* Opinion polls includes independent candidates.

1 Chu Mei-feng(1.1%)
2 Chu Mei-feng(0.6%)
3 Chu Mei-feng(0.1%); Su Ying-guei(1%)
4 Chu Mei-feng(0.7%); Su Ying-guei(0.4%)
5 Chu Mei-feng(0.4%); Su Ying-guei(2.5%)
6 Chu Mei-feng(2%); Su Ying-guei(1%)
7 Chu Mei-feng(1.1%); Su Ying-guei(1.2%)
8 Chu Mei-feng(1%); Su Ying-guei(1%)
9 Chu Mei-feng(1.7%); Su Ying-guei(1.3%)
10 Chu Mei-feng(1.1%); Su Ying-guei(0.8%)
11 Chu Mei-feng(0.8%); Su Ying-guei(1.1%)
12 Chu Mei-feng(0.8%); Su Ying-guei(2.1%)
13 Chu Mei-feng(0.7%); Su Ying-guei(0.8%)
14 Chu Mei-feng(1%); Su Ying-guei(0.3%)
15 Chu Mei-feng(1.1%); Su Ying-guei(1.2%)
16 Chu Mei-feng(0.6%); Su Ying-guei(0.7%)
17 Chu Mei-feng(0.5%); Su Ying-guei(0.5%)
18 Chu Mei-feng(1%); Su Ying-guei(2%)
19 Chu Mei-feng(1.5%); Su Ying-guei(0.6%)
20 Chu Mei-feng(1.3%); Su Ying-guei(0.7%)

Predictions

Poll organization Date of completion Turnout Chen Chi-mai Han Kuo-yu
TVBS October 16, 2018 67% 49% 49%
TVBS November 6, 2018 72% 47% 52%

Results

  Han lead > 4,400
  Han lead > 1,100
  Han lead < 1,100
  Chen lead < 1,100
  Chen lead > 1,100
  Chen lead > 4,400
District Han Kuo-yu Chen Chi-mai Chu Mei-feng Su Ying-guei
Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes %
Yancheng District (鹽埕區) 7,633 48.28 7,992 50.55 71 0.45 113 0.71
Gushan District (鼓山區) 45,816 57.04 33,547 41.77 267 0.33 691 0.86
Zuoying District (左營區) 68,255 61.99 40,526 36.81 346 0.31 978 0.89
Nanzih District (楠梓區) 59,478 56.58 44,288 42.13 379 0.36 973 0.93
Sanmin District (三民區) 105,406 52.79 91,617 45.88 772 0.39 1,872 0.94
Sinsing District (新興區) 16,776 53.34 14,237 45.26 107 0.34 334 1.06
Cianjin District (前金區) 9,120 53.83 7,608 44.91 53 0.31 161 0.95
Lingya District (苓雅區) 57,171 54.60 46,041 43.97 401 0.38 1,098 1.05
Cianjhen District (前鎮區) 59,572 52.53 52,376 46.19 472 0.42 982 0.87
Cijin District (旗津區) 7,993 45.49 9,360 53.27 95 0.54 124 0.71
Siaogang District (小港區) 47,806 51.70 43,464 47.00 433 0.47 764 0.83
Fongshan District (鳳山區) 118,466 56.54 88,437 42.21 881 0.42 1,739 0.83
Linyuan District (林園區) 20,149 47.40 21,847 51.40 219 0.52 293 0.69
Daliao District (大寮區) 35,636 52.17 31,773 46.51 372 0.54 533 0.78
Dashu District (大樹區) 12,945 48.33 13,493 50.38 174 0.65 173 0.65
Dashe District (大社區) 10,378 48.89 10,512 49.52 142 0.67 197 0.93
Renwu District (仁武區) 26,659 51.40 24,543 47.32 250 0.48 412 0.79
Niaosong District (鳥松區) 14,410 52.23 12,806 46.42 115 0.42 258 0.94
Gangshan District (岡山區) 32,410 54.93 25,829 43.78 313 0.53 446 0.76
Ciaotou District (橋頭區) 10,888 44.45 13,256 54.11 146 0.60 207 0.85
Yanchao District (燕巢區) 9,448 50.88 8,871 47.77 120 0.65 130 0.70
Tianliao District (田寮區) 2,252 43.58 2,768 53.56 135 2.61 13 0.25
Alian District (阿蓮區) 8,322 47.12 8,958 50.72 254 1.44 126 0.71
Lujhu District (路竹區) 16,545 52.43 14,407 45.66 319 1.01 284 0.90
Hunei District (湖內區) 9,133 49.67 8,903 48.42 187 1.02 164 0.89
Qieding District (茄萣區) 8,662 47.72 9,209 50.74 152 0.84 127 0.70
Yong'an District (永安區) 4,545 49.62 4,478 48.89 61 0.67 76 0.83
Mituo District (彌陀區) 6,756 52.77 5,871 45.86 86 0.67 89 0.70
Ziguan District (梓官區) 10,509 46.81 11,646 51.87 129 0.57 168 0.75
Cishan District (旗山區) 12,379 52.34 10,940 46.26 155 0.66 177 0.75
Meinong District (美濃區) 15,478 61.09 9,546 37.68 125 0.49 186 0.73
Liouguei District (六龜區) 4,084 54.29 3,315 37.68 64 0.85 59 0.78
Jiasian District (六龜區) 2,339 60.17 1,483 38.15 35 0.90 30 0.77
Shanlin District (杉林區) 4,129 56.45 3,076 42.05 53 0.72 57 0.78
Neimen District (內門區) 5,446 53.81 4,510 44.57 85 0.84 79 0.78
Maolin District (茂林區) 1,281 91.83 107 7.67 6 0.43 1 0.07
Taoyuan District (桃源區) 2,519 88.51 304 10.68 14 0.49 9 0.32
Namasia District (那瑪夏區) 1,751 85.08 295 14.33 10 0.49 2 0.10
2018 Kaohsiung City mayoral results[38]
No. Candidate Party Votes Percentage
1 Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜) Kuomintang 892,545 53.87%
2 Chen Chi-mai (陳其邁) Democratic Progressive Party 742,239 44.80%
3 Chu Mei-feng (璩美鳳) Independent 7,998 0.48%
4 Su Ying-guei (蘇盈貴) Independent 14,125 0.85%
Total voters  2,281,338
Valid votes  1,656,907
Invalid votes  20,743
Voter turnout  72.63%

Political context prior to the elections

Results of Past Keelung City Mayoral Elections
Year Winning Candidate Political Party
1997 Lee Chin-yung Democratic Progressive Party
2001 Hsu Tsai-li Kuomintang
2005 Hsu Tsai-li Kuomintang
2009 Chang Tong-rong Kuomintang
2014 Lin Yu-chang Democratic Progressive Party
Keelung City
Highest vote share
Party Year Vote share %
Democratic Progressive Party 2014 local election 53%
Kuomintang 2008 legislative election 68%
2016 election results
Party Presidential % Legislative seat Legislative %
Democratic Progressive Party 48.22% 1 41.45%
Kuomintang 35.29% 0 36.15%
New Power Party - 0 -
Taiwan Solidarity Union - 0 -
People First Party 16.50% 0 12.37%
Independent/Others - 0 10.03%

Results of the primary

2018 Democratic Progressive Party Keelung City mayoral primary results
Candidates Place Result
Lin Yu-chang Nominated Walkover
2018 Kuomintang Keelung City mayoral primary results
Candidates Place Results
Hsieh Li-kung Nominated after negotiation 39.92%
Song Wei-li 1st but withdrew after negotiation 41.49%
Wen-Chieh Dale Jieh 3rd 18.59%

Opinion polls

Poll organization Dates conducted Lin Yu-chang Hsieh Li-kung Not sure Lead
Sanli January 16, 2018 58% 15.2% 26.8% 42.8%
ETtoday March 30, 2018 44.1% 24.0% 31.9% 20.1%
Apollo July 5, 2018 50% 15.9% 34.1% 34.1%
Evidence Based October 20, 2018 54.1% 19.8% 26.1% 34.3%
Real Survey October 29, 2018 42.4% 29.7% 20.6% 12.7%

Results

2018 基隆市市長選舉各里得票
2018 基隆市市長選舉各里得票人口變形圖
District Hsieh Li-kung Lin Yu-chang
Votes % Votes %
Zhongzheng District (中正區) 12,009 47.21 13,431 52.79
Qidu District (七堵區) 11,745 42.50 15,891 57.50
Nuannuan District (暖暖區) 9,222 46.76 10,500 53.24
Ren'ai District (仁愛區) 9,877 55.87 12,507 55.87
Zhongshan District (中山區) 11,424 45.51 13,678 54.49
Anle District (安樂區) 18,580 45.04 22,676 54.96
Xinyi District (信義區) 13,672 50.35 13,484 49.65
2018 Keelung City mayoral results[39]
No. Candidate Party Votes Percentage
1 Hsieh Li-kung (謝立功) Kuomintang 86,529 45.86%
2 Lin Yu-chang (林右昌) Democratic Progressive Party 102,167 54.14%
Total voters  309,428
Valid votes  188,696
Invalid votes  
Voter turnout  60.98%

Political context prior to the elections

Results of Past Yilan County Magistrate Elections
Year Winning Candidate Political Party
1997 Liu Shou-ch'eng Democratic Progressive Party
2001 Liu Shou-ch'eng Democratic Progressive Party
2005 Lu Kuo-hua Kuomintang
2009 Lin Tsung-hsien Democratic Progressive Party
2014 Lin Tsung-hsien Democratic Progressive Party
Yilan County
Highest vote share
Party Year Vote share %
Democratic Progressive Party 2014 local election 64%
Kuomintang 2008 legislative election 53%
2016 election results
Party Presidential % Legislative seat Legislative %
Democratic Progressive Party 62.06% 1 53.68%
Kuomintang 25.38% 0 28.25%
New Power Party - 0 -
Taiwan Solidarity Union - 0 -
People First Party 12.55% 0 -
Independent/Others - 0 18.07%

Results of the primary

2018 Democratic Progressive Party Yilan County magistrate primary results
Candidates Place Result
Chen Ou-po Nominated Walkover
2018 Kuomintang Yilan County magistrate primary results
Candidates Place Result
Lin Zi-miao Called In Walkover

Opinion polls

Poll organization Dates conducted Chen Ou-po Lin Tzu-miao Not sure Lead
Apollo Archived 2018-01-31 at the Wayback Machine April 14, 2017 18.2% 28.6% 53.2% 10.4%
TVBS1 July 21, 2017 23% 57% 20% 34%
Era Com December 27, 2017 23.37% 45.89% 30.74% 21.52%
ETtoday2 June 11, 2018 15.8% 41.2% 39.1% 25.4%
ETtoday3 September 9, 2018 23.1% 35.6% 25.6% 12.5%
Liberty Times Net4 September 21, 2018 23.38% 37.61% 34.03% 14.23%
CM Media5 September 26, 2018 26.5% 40.1% 25.5% 13.6%
UDN6 October 5, 2018 13% 42% 45% 29%
TVBS7 October 7, 2018 19% 47% 28% 28%
China Times8 October 27, 2018 14.3% 44.6% 36.2% 30.3%
TISR9 November 11, 2018 24.3% 42% 25.9% 17.7%
Chen Ou-po Campaign Team10 November 11, 2018 28.7% 26.6% 28.9% 2.1%
Note:* Opinion polls includes independent candidates.

1 Lin Hsin-hua(7.0%)
2 Lin Hsin-hua(3.9%)
3 Lin Hsin-hua(4.4%); Chen Qiu-jing(0.7%); Lin Jin-kun(1.5%)
4 Lin Hsin-hua(4.38%); Chen Qiu-jing(0.3%); Lin Jin-kun(0.3%)
5 Lin Hsin-hua(5.8%); Chen Qiu-jing(0.5%); Lin Jin-kun(0.9%)
6 Lin Hsin-hua(5%); Chen Qiu-jing(0.2%); Lin Jin-kun(0.1%)
7 Lin Hsin-hua(5%); Chen Qiu-jing(1%); Lin Jin-kun(0.0%)
8 Lin Hsin-hua(3.1%); Chen Qiu-jing(0%); Lin Jin-kun(0.8%)
9 Lin Hsin-hua(4.6%); Chen Qiu-jing(0.9%); Lin Jin-kun(0.6%)
10 Lin Hsin-hua(15.8%)

Results

District Lin Hsin-hua Lin Zi-miao Chen Ou-po Lin Jin-kun Chen Qiu-jing
Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes %
Yilan City (宜蘭市) 6,736 13.66 23,891 48.45 18,033 36.57 379 0.76 270 0.54
Luodong Township (羅東鎮) 3,872 11.05 18,457 52.71 18,033 35.39 163 0.46 128 0.36
Su'ao Township (蘇澳鎮) 2,266 9.87 11,341 49.43 8,995 39.20 185 0.80 154 0.67
Toucheng Township (頭城鎮) 1,415 8.25 9,405 54.90 5,973 34.86 167 0.97 171 0.99
Jiaoxi Township (礁溪鄉) 2,314 10.95 9,698 45.91 8,797 41.65 194 0.92 120 0.57
Zhuangwei Township (壯圍鄉) 1,581 10.34 6,978 45.66 6,509 42.59 125 0.82 90 0.59
Yuanshan Township (員山鄉) 1,974 10.77 7,844 42.78 8,154 44.47 264 1.44 101 0.55
Dongshan Township (冬山鄉) 3,138 10.94 13,141 45.83 12,023 41.93 206 0.72 168 0.59
Wujie Township (五結鄉) 1,415 11.84 10,354 47.07 8,782 39.93 142 0.65 112 0.51
Sanxing Township (三星鄉) 1,235 9.69 6,053 47.48 5,314 41.68 74 0.58 72 0.56
Datong Township (大同鄉) 149 3.81 3,360 86.02 374 9.58 9 0.23 14 0.36
Nan'ao Township (南澳鄉) 114 3.12 3,245 88.73 260 7.11 14 0.38 24 0.66
2018 Yilan County mayoral results[40]
No. Candidate Party Votes Percentage
1 Lin Hsin-hua (林信華) Independent 27,399 10.95%
2 Lin Zi-miao (林姿妙) Kuomintang 123,767 49.48%
3 Chen Ou-po (陳歐珀) Democratic Progressive Party 95,609 38.23%
4 Lin Jin-kun (林錦坤) Independent 1,922 0.77%
5 Chen Qiu-jing (陳秋境) Independent 1,424 0.57%
Total voters  373,510
Valid votes  250,121
Invalid votes  
Voter turnout  66.97%

Political context prior to the elections

Results of Past Hsinchu County Magistrate Elections
Year Winning Candidate Political Party
1997 Lin Kuang-hua Democratic Progressive Party
2001 Cheng Yung-chin Kuomintang
2005 Cheng Yung-chin Kuomintang
2009 Chiu Ching-chun Kuomintang
2014 Chiu Ching-chun Kuomintang
Hsinchu County
Highest vote share
Party Year Vote share %
Democratic Progressive Party 2010 legislative by-election 56%
Kuomintang 2008 presidential election 74%
2016 election results
Party Presidential % Legislative seat Legislative %
Democratic Progressive Party 42.52% 0 -
Kuomintang 35.28% 1 36.75%
New Power Party - 0 -
Taiwan Solidarity Union - 0 -
People First Party 22.19% 0 -
Independent/Others - 0 63.25%

Results of the primary

2018 Minkuotang Hsinchu County magistrate primary results
Candidates Place Result
Hsu Hsin-ying Nominated Walkover
2018 Kuomintang Hsinchu County magistrate primary results
Candidates Place Results
Yang Wen-ke Called In Walkover
Lin Wei-chou Failure to get party's nomination -
2018 Democratic Progressive Party Hsinchu County magistrate primary results
Candidates Place Result
Cheng Chao-fang Called In Walkover

Opinion polls

Poll organization Dates conducted Hsu Hsin-ying Yang Wen-ko Cheng Chao-fang Not sure Lead
Era Com Archived 2018-05-04 at the Wayback Machine January 4, 2018 32.18% 23.59% - 24.85% 8.59%
China Times January 26, 2018 17.1% 12.1% - - 5%
Apollo June 16, 2018 20.1% 27% 4.7% 39.8% 6.9%
Apollo June 21, 2018 18.3% 21.3% 4.5% 38.4% 3%
Era Com June 22, 2018 40.2% 23.3% 8.82% 18.39% 16.9%
TVBS June 29, 2018 31% 27% 9% 32% 4%
ETtoday July 11, 2018 19.7% 26.3% 9.7% 44.2% 6.6%
ETtodayNote July 27, 2018 27.5% 23.6% 6.5% 17.1% 3.9%
ApolloNote August 1, 2018 30.5% 25.9% 7.2% 19.2% 4.6%
Daily ViewNote August 19, 2018 34.8% 24.47% 21.74% - 10.33%
Focus Survey Research August 24, 2018 37.2% 26.7% 12.0% 23.1% 10.5%
ApolloNote August 25, 2018 20.4% 16.9% 6.2% 31.1% 3.5%
TVBS August 31, 2018 28% 25% 13% 34% 3%
Era Com Archived 2018-09-12 at the Wayback Machine September 10, 2018 32.56% 23.25% 9.11% 35.08% 9.29%
Taiwan Competitiveness Forum1 Archived 2018-10-31 at the Wayback Machine September 16, 2018 27.8% 23.4% 12.6% 34.8% 4.4%
UDN2 October 2, 2018 31% 25% 11% 32% 6%
TISR3c October 2, 2018 25.9% 23.3% 9.1% 31.5% 2.6%
Apollo4 October 22, 2018 24.8% 27.5% 10.2% 28.7% 2.7%
Taiwan Competitiveness Forum5 Archived 2018-10-31 at the Wayback Machine October 29, 2018 24.8% 26% 10.4% 31.4% 1.2%
UDN6 November 2, 2018 36% 29% 11% 23% 7%
Taiwan Competitiveness Forum7 November 7, 2018 25.4% 31.7% 11.7% 26.3% 6.3%
China Times8 November 9, 2018 26.3% 28.7% 10.5% 25.7% 2.4%
Era Com November 11, 2018 27.56% 33.41% 12.21% 26.82% 5.85%
Trend Survey November 11, 2018 28.8% 33% 14.8% 23.4% 4.2%
Cheng Chao-fang Campaign Team November 11, 2018 30% 27% 23% 20% 3%
Note:* Opinion polls includes independent candidates.

1 Yeh Fang-tung(1.4%)
2 Yeh Fang-tung(1%)
3 Yeh Fang-tung(1.9%)
4 Yeh Fang-tung(0.6%)
5 Yeh Fang-tung(2.2%)
6 Yeh Fang-tung(1%)
7 Yeh Fang-tung(1.4%)
8 Yeh Fang-tung(1.3%)

Note: Poll conducted before Lin was withdraw race

Results

District Yang Wen-ke Yeh Fang-tung Cheng Chao-fang Hsu Hsin-ying
Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes %
Zhubei City (竹北市) 27,664 33.50 1,901 2.30 21,725 26.31 31,292 37.89
Zhudong Township (竹東鎮) 19,629 42.05 792 1.70 13,531 28.99 12,724 27.26
Xinpu Township (新埔鎮) 35.99 42.05 317 1.63 6,239 32.16 5,861 30.21
Guanxi Township (關西鎮) 6,017 35.70 217 1.29 4,905 29.10 5,715 33.91
Hukou Township (湖口鎮) 15,866 39.87 702 1.76 10,043 25.24 13,182 33.13
Zhubei City (新豐鄉) 9,826 33.97 475 1.64 7,930 27.42 10,694 36.97
Qionglin Township (芎林鄉) 4,876 40.07 216 1.78 3,702 30.42 3,374 27.73
Hengshan Township (橫山鄉) 3,624 44.23 152 1.86 2,278 27.80 2,140 26.12
Beipu Township (北埔鄉) 2,769 46.27 115 1.92 1,741 29.09 1,359 22.71
Baoshan Township (寶山鄉) 4,172 45.93 133 1.46 2,465 27.14 2,313 25.47
Emei Township (峨眉鄉) 4,876 53.52 57 1.38 1,123 27.10 746 18.00
Jianshi Township (尖石鄉) 2,836 51.39 68 1.23 1,525 27.63 1,090 19.75
Wufeng Township (五峰鄉) 1,398 45.33 23 0.75 963 31.23 700 22.70
2018 Hsinchu County mayoral results[41]
No. Candidate Party Votes Percentage
1 Yang Wen-ke (楊文科) Kuomintang 107,877 38.20%
2 Yeh Fang-tung (葉芳棟) Independent 5,168 1.83%
3 Cheng Chao-fang (鄭朝方) Democratic Progressive Party 78,170 27.68%
4 Hsu Hsin-ying (徐欣瑩) Minkuotang 91,190 32.29%
Total voters  427,652
Valid votes  282,405
Invalid votes  8,195
Voter turnout  66.03%

Political context prior to the elections

Results of Past Hsinchu City Mayoral Elections
Year Winning Candidate Political Party
1997 James Tsai Democratic Progressive Party
2001 Lin Junq-tzer Kuomintang
2005 Lin Junq-tzer Kuomintang
2009 Hsu Ming-tsai Kuomintang
2014 Lin Chih-chien Democratic Progressive Party
Hsinchu City
Highest vote share
Party Year Vote share %
Democratic Progressive Party 1997 local election 56%
Kuomintang 2005 local election 69%
2016 election results
Party Presidential % Legislative seat Legislative %
Democratic Progressive Party 51.22% 1 41.33%
Kuomintang 32.42% 0 36.46%
New Power Party - 0 16.56%
Taiwan Solidarity Union - 0 -
People First Party 16.35% 0 1.91%
Independent/Others - 0 3.74%

Results of the primary

2018 Democratic Progressive Party Hsinchu City mayoral primary results
Candidates Place Result
Lin Chih-chien Nominated Walkover
2018 Kuomintang Hsinchu City mayoral primary results
Candidates Place UDN Apollo Survey & Research TVBS Aggregated Result
Hsu Ming-tsai Nominated 40.55% 42.89% 42.63% 42.02%
Lin Geng-ren 2nd 36.15% 34.63% 34.62% 35.13%
Li Guo-zhang 3rd 23.30% 22.48% 22.75% 22.84%

Opinion polls

Poll organization Dates conducted Lin Chih-chien Hsu Ming-tsai Hsieh Wen-chin Not sure Lead
Trend November 14, 2017 59.9% 19.8% - 20.3% 40.1%
Sanli January 26, 2018 56.4% 23.4% - 20.2% 33%
ETtoday March 27, 2018 51.4% 12.0% - 36.6% 39.4%
GVM May 30, 2018 59.7% 23.3% - 20% 36.4%
Green Party June 20, 2018 40.9% 15.9% - 20% 25%
Sanli June 21, 2018 55.5% 15.5% - 29% 40%
China Times July 7, 2018 48.4% 15.3% 9.5% 26.8% 33.1%
ETtoday July 16, 2018 38.5% 16.9% 6.2% 27.1% 21.6%
Taiwan Green Party August 24, 2018 48.5% 13.6% 7.9% 30% 34.9%
Democratic Progressive Party September 3, 2018 45.6% 13.2% 9.9% 31.3% 32.4%
Focus Survey Research October 21, 2018 40.6% 17.1% 14.5% 27.8% 23.5%
Focus Survey Research November 6, 2018 40.6% 17.6% 13% 28.8% 23%

Results

District Hsieh Wen-chin Li Chi-qun Huang Yuan-fu Hsu Ming-tsai Kuo Jung-jui Lin Chih-chien
Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes %
East District (東區) 19,364 19.45 323 0.32 2,165 2.17 29,097 29.23 261 0.26 48,346 48.56
North District (北區) 17,017 22.39 236 0.31 1,053 1.39 20,850 27.43 195 0.26 36,655 48.23
Xiangshan District (香山區) 7,720 18.58 146 0.35 385 0.93 10,561 25.42 118 0.28 22,611 54.43
2018 Hsinchu City mayoral results[42]
No. Candidate Party Votes Percentage
1 Hsieh Wen-chin (謝文進) Independent 44,101 20.31%
2 Li Chi-qun (李驥羣) Independent 705 0.32%
3 Huang Yuan-fu (黃源甫) Independent 3,603 1.66%
4 Hsu Ming-tsai (許明財) Kuomintang 60,508 27.87%
5 Kuo Jung-jui (郭榮睿) Independent 574 0.26%
6 Lin Chih-chien (林智堅) Democratic Progressive Party 107,612 49.57%
Total voters  338,323
Valid votes  217,103
Invalid votes  4,299
Voter turnout  64.17%

Political context prior to the elections

Results of Past Miaoli County Magistrate Elections
Year Winning Candidate Political Party
1997 Fu Hsueh-peng Independent
2001 Fu Hsueh-peng Independent
2005 Liu Cheng-hung Kuomintang
2009 Liu Cheng-hung Kuomintang
2014 Hsu Yao-chang Kuomintang
Miaoli County
2016 election results
Party Presidential % Legislative seats Legislative %
Democratic Progressive Party 45.45% 0 40.44%
Kuomintang 37.55% 2 46.26%
New Power Party - 0 -
Taiwan Solidarity Union - 0 -
People First Party 17.00% 0 -
Independent/Others - 0 13.30%

Results of the primary

2018 Kuomintang Miaoli County magistrate primary results
Candidates Place Result
Hsu Yao-chang Nominated Walkover
2018 Democratic Progressive Party Miaoli County magistrate primary results
Candidates Place Results
Hsu Ting-chen Supported by DPP

Opinion polls

Poll organization Dates conducted Hsu Yao-chang Hsu Ting-chen Not sure Lead
GSSC January 26, 2018 46.5% 21.1% 32.4% 25.4%
China Times June 13, 2018 56.9% 17.6% 25.5% 39.3%
ETtoday July 2, 2018 35.9% 16.5% 29.7% 19.4%
China Times1 November 5, 2018 47.6% 13.2% 37.7% 34.4%
Note:* Opinion polls includes independent candidates.

1 Huang Yu-yen(0.1%), Zhu Tai-ping(0.5%)

Results

District Zhu Tai-ping Hsu Ting-zhen Huang Yu-yen Hsu Yao-chang
Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes %
Miaoli City (苗栗市) 1,070 2.31 15,711 33.92 1,158 2.50 28,376 61.27
Yuanli Township (苑裡鎮) 732 2.81 10,002 38.35 1,023 3.92 14,322 54.92
Tongxiao Township (通霄鎮) 567 2.73 10,375 49.99 841 4.05 8,970 43.22
Zhunan Township (竹南鎮) 1,138 2.70 16,806 39.95 1,342 3.19 22,785 54.16
Toufen City (頭份市) 816 1.57 17,558 33.81 1,421 2.74 32,143 61.89
Houlong Township (後龍鎮) 489 2.29 10,631 49.69 717 3.35 9,556 44.67
Zhuolan Township (卓蘭鎮) 435 4.01 3,315 30.57 378 3.49 6,717 61.94
Dahu Township (大湖鄉) 305 3.50 2,791 32.07 225 2.59 5,382 61.84
Gongguan Township (公館鄉) 362 1.93 6,446 34.28 449 2.39 11,545 61.40
Tongluo Township (銅鑼鄉) 180 1.68 3,894 36.42 286 2.68 6,331 59.22
Nanzhuang Township (南庄鄉) 91 1.51 1,814 30.02 124 2.05 4,014 66.42
Touwu Township (頭屋鄉) 108 1.45 2,307 31.05 151 2.03 4,863 65.46
Sanyi Township (三義鄉) 178 1.80 3,540 35.78 330 3.34 5,845 59.08
Xihu Township (西湖鄉) 72 1.54 1,685 35.95 113 2.41 2,817 60.10
Zaoqiao Township (造橋鄉) 145 1.97 2,561 34.87 194 2.64 4,444 60.51
Sanwan Township (三灣鄉) 62 1.51 1,192 28.97 93 2.26 2,767 67.26
Shitan Township (獅潭鄉) 51 1.74 758 25.85 73 2.49 2,050 69.92
Tai'an Township (泰安鄉) 79 1.82 1,318 30.38 112 2.58 2,829 65.21
2018 Miaoli County mayoral results
No. Candidate Party Votes Percentage
1 Zhu Tai-ping (朱泰平) Independent 6,880 2.26%
2 Hsu Ting-zhen (徐定禎) Independent 112,704 37.03%
3 Huang Yu-yen (黃玉燕) Independent 9,030 2.97%
4 Hsu Yao-chang (徐耀昌) Kuomintang 175,756 57.74%
Total voters  446,507
Valid votes  304,370
Invalid votes  
Voter turnout  68.17%

Political context prior to the elections

Results of Past Changhua County Magistrate Elections
Year Winning Candidate Political Party
1997 Juan Kang-meng Kuomintang
2001 Wong Chin-chu Democratic Progressive Party
2005 Cho Po-yuan Kuomintang
2009 Cho Po-yuan Kuomintang
2014 Wei Ming-ku Democratic Progressive Party
Changhua County
Highest vote share
Party Year Vote share %
Democratic Progressive Party 2016 presidential election 56%
Kuomintang 2008 presidential election 58%
2016 election results
Party Presidential % Legislative seats Legislative %
Democratic Progressive Party 56.47% 3 47.69%
Kuomintang 28.80% 1 44.96%
New Power Party - 0 0.49%
Taiwan Solidarity Union - 0 -
People First Party 14.73% 0 2.91%
Independent/Others - 0 3.95%

Results of the primary

2018 Democratic Progressive Party Changhua County magistrate primary results
Candidates Place Result
Wei Ming-ku Called In Walkover
2018 Kuomintang Changhua County magistrate primary results
Candidates Place TVBS Apollo Survey & Research UDN Aggregated Result
Wang Huei-mei Nominated 56.66% 59.78% 55.59% 57.34%
Wu Mingzhe 2nd 22.49% 20.99% 26.35% 23.28%
Yang Fu-di 3rd 20.85% 19.23% 18.06% 19.38%

Opinion polls

Poll organization Dates conducted Wei Ming-ku Wang Huei-mei Not sure Lead
China Times April 10, 2017 39.9% 25.7% 34.4% 14.2%
Era Com Archived 2018-01-11 at the Wayback Machine January 9, 2018 26.3% 35.9% 33.06% 9.6%
China Times February 13, 2018 33.6% 28% 38.4% 5.6%
ETtoday March 13, 2018 31.9% 28.3% 39.8% 3.6%
GSSC May 24, 2018 25.1% 35.0% 39.9% 9.9%
ETtoday September 2. 2018 29.6% 29% 26.3% 0.6%
Chienkuo Technology1 September 15. 2018 13.2% 19.9% 33.6% 6.7%
Liberty Times Net2 September 14, 2018 31.3% 30.5% 35.4% 0.8%
UDN3 September 28, 2018 24% 34% 38% 10%
Taiwan Next Gen Foundation4 October 3, 2018 32.3% 31.7% 30% 0.4%
China Times5 October 14, 2018 28.8% 37.7% 26.4% 8.9%
CM Media6 October 16, 2018 34.5% 33.3% 26.2% 1.2%
Taiwan Competitiveness Forum7 Archived 2018-10-29 at the Wayback Machine October 25, 2018 23.9% 33.4% 35.5% 9.5%
ETtoday8 October 28, 2018 23.2% 38.1% 27.7% 14.9%
UDN9 November 6, 2018 24% 41% 31% 17%
Cross Straits Research Foundation10 November 6, 2018 34.2% 30.9% 28.8% 3.3%
Sanli11 November 6, 2018 35.4% 33.4% 25.3% 2%
Note:* Opinion polls includes independent candidates.

1 Huang Wen-ling(4.7%); Hung Min-xiong(3.2%)
2 Huang Wen-ling(2.29%); Hung Min-xiong(0.3%); Pai Ya-tsan(0.1%)
3 Huang Wen-ling(1%); Hung Min-xiong(0.1%); Pai Ya-tsan(0.1%)
4 Huang Wen-ling(6%)
5 Huang Wen-ling(5.8%)
6 Huang Wen-ling(4.8%); Hung Min-xiong(0.4%); Pai Ya-tsan(0.1%)
7 Huang Wen-ling(2.6%); Hung Min-xiong(1%); Pai Ya-tsan(0.6%)
8 Huang Wen-ling(4.5%)
9 Huang Wen-ling(4%); Hung Min-xiong(0.3%); Pai Ya-tsan(1%)
10 Huang Wen-ling(6.1%)
11 Huang Wen-ling; Others(0.1%)

Results

District Wei Ming-ku Wang Huei-mei Pai Ya-tsan Huang Wen-ling Hung Min-xiong
Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes %
Changhua City (彰化市) 47,148 38.02 65,874 53.12 1,375 1.11 8,206 6.62 1,407 1.13
Lugang Township (鹿港鎮) 18,379 38.77 27,397 57.80 266 0.56 1,147 2.42 212 0.45
Hemei Township (和美鎮) 17,596 35.81 29,004 59.03 421 0.85 1,745 3.55 363 0.73
Xianxi Township (線西鄉) 2,818 28.46 6,615 66.82 90 0.91 314 3.17 63 0.64
Shengang Township (伸港鄉) 6,883 33.55 12,781 62.30 135 0.66 615 3.00 101 0.49
Fuxing Township (福興鄉) 9,992 38.08 15,125 57.65 220 0.84 752 2.87 148 0.56
Xiushui Township (秀水鄉) 7,953 35.67 13,132 58.90 173 0.78 836 3.75 203 0.91
Huatan Township (花壇鄉) 9,629 36.90 14,443 55.34 387 1.48 1,366 5.23 273 1.05
Fenyuan Township (芬園鄉) 6,415 46.08 6,594 47.37 119 0.85 669 4.81 124 0.89
Yuanlin City (員林市) 26,724 41.78 31,949 49.95 715 1.12 3,716 5.81 852 1.33
Xihu Township (溪湖鎮) 11,899 38.86 16,431 53.67 284 0.93 1,479 4.83 524 1.71
Tianzhong Township (田中鎮) 10,161 43.96 11,340 49.06 250 1.08 1,136 4.91 228 0.99
Dacun Township (大村鄉) 8,835 41.40 10,826 50.73 235 1.10 1,218 5.71 227 1.06
Puyan Township (埔鹽鄉) 6,620 32.43 12,415 60.82 200 0.98 943 4.62 236 1.16
Puxin Township (埔心鄉) 9,295 45.43 9,694 47.38 195 0.95 1,044 5.10 232 1.13
Yongjing Township (永靖鄉) 9,751 45.35 10,057 46.77 253 1.18 1,188 5.53 252 1.17
Shetou Township (社頭鄉) 10,864 44.60 11,703 48.04 502 2.06 1,094 4.49 196 0.80
Ershui Township (二水鄉) 4,775 49.11 4,452 45.79 78 0.80 357 3.67 61 0.63
Beidou Township (北斗鎮) 7,863 42.83 9,082 49.47 199 1.08 1,013 5.52 202 1.10
Erlin Township (二林鎮) 10,868 37.78 15,652 54.42 349 1.21 1,496 5.20 399 1.39
Tianwei Township (田尾鄉) 6,720 42.16 7,946 49.86 214 1.34 892 5.60 166 1.04
Pitou Township (埤頭鄉) 7,095 42.06 8,548 50.67 191 1.13 852 5.05 183 1.08
Fangyuan Township (芳苑鄉) 8,818 44.80 9,404 47.78 213 1.08 1,005 5.11 241 1.22
Dacheng Township (大城鄉) 4,013 43.29 4,708 50.78 92 0.99 347 3.74 111 1.20
Zhutang Township (竹塘鄉) 4,424 47.20 4,333 46.23 89 0.95 423 4.51 104 1.11
Xizhou Township (溪州鄉) 7,731 45.03 8,290 48.28 157 0.91 837 4.87 155 0.90
2018 Changhua County mayoral results[43]
No. Candidate Party Votes Percentage
1 Wei Ming-ku (魏明谷) Democratic Progressive Party 283,269 39.87%
2 Wang Huei-mei (王惠美) Kuomintang 377,795 53.18%
3 Pai Ya-tsan Independent 7,402 1.04%
4 Huang Wen-ling (黃文玲) Independent 34,690 4.88%
5 Hung Min-xiong (洪敏雄) Independent 7,263 1.02%
Total voters  1,031,222
Valid votes  710,419
Invalid votes  
Voter turnout  68.89%

Political context prior to the elections

Results of Past Nantou County Magistrate Elections
Year Winning Candidate Political Party
1997 Peng Pai-hsien Independent
2001 Lin Tsung-nan Democratic Progressive Party
2005 Lee Chao-ching Kuomintang
2009 Lee Chao-ching Kuomintang
2014 Lin Ming-chen Kuomintang
Nantou County
Highest vote share
Party Year Vote share %
Democratic Progressive Party 2016 presidential election 52%
Kuomintang 2008 legislative election 62%
2016 election results
Party Presidential % Legislative seats Legislative %
Democratic Progressive Party 52.23% 0 44.24%
Kuomintang 32.08% 2 55.76%
New Power Party - 0 -
Taiwan Solidarity Union - 0 -
People First Party 15.68% 0 -
Independent/Others - 0 -

Results of the primary

2018 Kuomintang Nantou County magistrate primary results
Candidates Place Result
Lin Ming-chen Nominated Walkover
2018 Democratic Progressive Party Nantou County magistrate primary results
Candidates Place Result
Hung Kuo-haw Called In Walkover

Opinion polls

Poll organization Dates conducted Lin Ming-chen Hung Kuo-haw Not sure Lead
ETtoday March 13, 2018 59.4% 11.7% 28.9% 47.7%
China Times March 23, 2018 37.9% 8.9% 53.2% 29%
China Times October 29, 2018 48.4% 13% 37.6% 35.4%

Results

District Lin Ming-chen Hung Kuo-haw
Votes % Votes %
Nantou City (南投市) 39,008 68.02 18,342 31.98
Puli Township (埔里鎮) 31,617 70.04 13,527 29.96
Caotun Township (草屯鎮) 29,774 53.79 25,582 46.21
Zhushan Township (竹山鎮) 21,162 68.00 9,960 32.00
Jiji Township (集集鎮) 4,774 68.63 2,182 31.37
Mingjian Township (名間鄉) 15,432 64.75 8,400 35.25
Lugu Township (鹿谷鄉) 8,156 72.48 3,096 27.52
Zhongliao Township (中寮鄉) 6,940 70.31 2,931 29.69
Yuchi Township (魚池鄉) 6,810 68.99 3,061 31.01
Guoxing Township (魚池鄉) 8,152 68.21 3,799 31.79
Shuili Township (水里鄉) 7,621 69.89 3,284 30.11
Xinyi Township (信義鄉) 7,902 80.96 1,858 19.04
Ren'ai Township (仁愛鄉) 8,037 84.82 1,438 15.18
2018 Nantou County mayoral results
No. Candidate Party Votes Percentage
1 Lin Ming-chen (林明溱) Kuomintang 195,385 66.72%
2 Hung Kuo-hao (洪國浩) Democratic Progressive Party 97,460 33.28%
Total voters  413,222
Valid votes  292,845
Invalid votes  
Voter turnout  70.87%

Political context prior to the elections

Results of Past Yunlin County Magistrate Elections
Year Winning Candidate Political Party
1997 Chang Jung-wei Independent -> Kuomintang
2001 Chang Jung-wei Kuomintang
2005 Su Chih-fen Democratic Progressive Party
2009 Su Chih-fen Democratic Progressive Party
2014 Lee Chin-yung Democratic Progressive Party
Yunlin County
Highest vote share
Party Year Vote share %
Democratic Progressive Party 2009 local elections 65%
Kuomintang 2001 local elections 62%
2016 election results
Party Presidential % Legislative seats Legislative %
Democratic Progressive Party 63.41% 2 61.27%
Kuomintang 24.93% 0 34.12%
New Power Party - 0 2.13%
Taiwan Solidarity Union - 0 -
People First Party 11.66% 0 -
Independent/Others - 0 2.48%

Results of the primary

2018 Democratic Progressive Party Yunlin County magistrate primary results
Candidates Place Result
Lee Chin-yung Nominated Walkover
2018 Kuomintang Yunlin County magistrate primary results
Candidates Place Result
Chang Li-shan Called In Walkover

Opinion polls

Poll organization Dates conducted Lee Chin-yung Chang Li-shan Not sure Lead
ETtoday May 21, 2018 32.8% 19.6% 47.6% 13.2%
Taiwan Competitiveness Forum1 October 17, 2018 32.6% 25.3% 35.8% 7.3%
Taiwan Competitiveness Forum2 November 2, 2018 30.3% 28% 35.9% 2.3%
Note:* Opinion polls includes independent candidates.

1 Lin Chia-yu(1.7%); Wang Li-ping(0.9%)
2 Lin Chia-yu(1.4%); Wang Li-ping(1.7%)

Results

District Lin Chia-yu Lee Chin-yung Wang Li-ping Chang Li-shan
Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes %
Douliu City (斗六市) 1,055 1.81 22,922 39.39 2,161 3.71 32,050 55.08
Dounan Township (斗南鎮) 475 1.84 11,005 42.61 901 3.49 13,445 52.06
Huwei Township (虎尾鎮) 743 1.95 14,381 37.68 1,697 4.45 21,349 55.93
Xiluo Township (西螺鎮) 392 1.52 12,644 48.96 679 2.63 12,109 46.89
Tuku Township (土庫鎮) 275 1.58 6,368 36.69 578 3.33 10,136 58.40
Beigang Township (北港鎮) 334 1.44 10,941 47.13 514 2.21 11,426 49.22
Gukeng Township (古坑鄉) 283 1.52 7,693 41.45 496 2.67 10,087 54.35
Dapi Township (大埤鄉) 190 1.62 4,860 41.37 359 3.06 6,339 53.96
Cihtong Township (莿桐鎮) 323 1.84 8,445 48.24 521 2.98 8,218 46.94
Linnei Township (林內鄉) 125 1.19 4,928 46.72 260 2.47 5,234 49.63
Erlun Township (二崙鄉) 240 1.52 7,708 48.78 392 2.48 7,461 47.22
Lunbei Township (崙背鄉) 209 1.44 5,987 41.25 357 2.46 7,961 54.85
Mailiao Township (麥寮鄉) 340 1.49 6,429 28.12 542 2.37 15,550 68.02
Dongshi Township (東勢鄉) 117 1.18 3,902 39.49 174 1.76 5,687 57.56
Baozhong Township (褒忠鄉) 100 1.15 3,638 41.81 217 2.49 4,746 54.55
Taixi Township (臺西鄉) 175 1.26 4,600 33.11 283 2.04 8,833 63.59
Yuanchang Township (元長鄉) 267 1.75 6,483 42.41 418 2.73 8,118 53.11
Sihu Township (四湖鄉) 118 0.95 5,728 46.04 212 1.70 6,384 51.31
Kouhu Township (口湖鄉) 195 1.20 7,059 43.50 236 1.45 8,739 53.85
Shuilin Township (水林鄉) 207 1.38 7,604 50.78 264 1.76 6,898 46.07
2018 Yunlin County mayoral results
No. Candidate Party Votes Percentage
1 Lin Chia-yu (林佳瑜) Independent 6,163 1.57%
2 Lee Chin-yung (李進勇) Democratic Progressive Party 163,325 41.72%
3 Wang Li-ping (王麗萍) Independent 11,261 2.88%
4 Chang Li-shan (張麗善) Kuomintang 210,770 53.82%
Total voters  565,078
Valid votes  391,519
Invalid votes  
Voter turnout  69.29%

Political context prior to the elections

Results of Past Chiayi County Magistrate Elections
Year Winning Candidate Political Party
1997 Lee Ya-jing Kuomintang
2001 Chen Ming-wen Democratic Progressive Party
2005 Chen Ming-wen Democratic Progressive Party
2009 Helen Chang Democratic Progressive Party
2014 Helen Chang Democratic Progressive Party
Chiayi County
Highest vote share
Party Year Vote share %
Democratic Progressive Party 2016 presidential election 65%
Kuomintang 2008 legislative election 50%
2016 election results
Party Presidential % Legislative seats Legislative %
Democratic Progressive Party 65.37% 2 59.05%
Kuomintang 23.38% 0 38.68%
New Power Party - 0 -
Taiwan Solidarity Union - 0 -
People First Party 11.25% 0 -
Independent/Others - 0 2.27%

Results of the primary

2018 Democratic Progressive Party Chiayi County magistrate primary results
Candidates Place Focus Survey Research Shih Shin Real Survey Aggregated Result
Weng Chang-liang Nominated 43.08% 42.88% 45.34% 43.77%
Chang Ming-ta 2nd 35.57% 36.73% 33.79% 35.36%
None of the candidates 21.35% 20.39% 20.87% 20.87%
2018 Kuomintang Chiayi County magistrate primary results
Candidates Place Result
Wu Yu-jen Called In Walkover

Opinion polls

Poll organization Date of completion Weng Chang-liang Wu Yu-jen Not sure Lead
ETtoday June 4, 2018 34.3% 15.3% 50.4% 19%
ETtoday September 24, 2018 29.3% 22.8% 32.4% 6.5%
Note:* Opinion polls includes independent candidates.

1 Wu Fang-ming(5%); Lin Kuo-lung(2.6%)

Results

District Weng Chang-liang Wu Fang-ming Lin Kuo-lung Wu Yu-jen
Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes %
Taibao City (太保市) 10,506 51.80 3,395 16.73 288 1.42 6,092 30.03
Puzi City (朴子市) 11,907 53.76 3,655 16.50 405 1.82 6,178 27.89
Budai Township (布袋鎮) 8,244 54.46 1,569 10.36 269 1.77 5,053 33.38
Dalin Township (大林鎮) 7,976 45.34 3,945 22.42 242 1.37 5,426 30.84
Minxiong Township (民雄鄉) 17,016 44.72 8,246 21.67 645 1.69 12,139 31.90
Xikou Township (溪口鄉) 4,932 54.42 1,820 20.08 211 2.32 2,099 23.16
Xingang Township (新港鄉) 10,986 58.72 3,095 16.54 329 1.75 4,298 22.97
Lioujiao Township (六腳鄉) 7,675 60.65 1,740 13.75 250 1.97 2,989 23.62
Dongshi Township (東石鄉) 7,275 54.97 2,532 19.13 234 1.76 3,193 24.12
Yizhu Township (義竹鄉) 8,500 70.92 938 7.82 132 1.10 2,414 20.14
Lucao Township (鹿草鄉) 5,411 60.44 844 9.42 152 1.69 2,545 28.42
Shuishang Township (水上鄉) 13,968 50.44 3,529 12.74 458 1.65 9,734 35.15
Zhongpu Township (中埔鄉) 11,500 48.73 4,038 17.11 308 1.30 7,751 32.84
Zhuqi Township (竹崎鄉) 8,791 42.07 5,467 26.16 334 1.59 6,300 30.15
Meishan Township (梅山鄉) 5,175 43.22 3,197 26.70 164 1.36 3,437 28.70
Fanlu Township (番路鄉) 2,253 32.65 2,036 29.51 100 1.44 2,510 36.38
Dapu Township (大埔鄉) 1,724 56.06 397 12.91 35 1.13 919 29.88
Alishan Township (阿里山鄉) 1,449 44.83 577 17.85 40 1.23 1,166 36.07
2018 Chiayi County mayoral results
No. Candidate Party Votes Percentage
1 Weng Chang-liang (翁章梁) Democratic Progressive Party 145,288 50.95%
2 Wu Fang-ming (吳芳銘) Independent 51,020 17.89%
3 Lin Kuo-lung (林國龍) Independent 4,596 1.61%
4 Wu Yu-jen (吳育仁) Kuomintang 84,243 29.54%
Total voters  428,649
Valid votes  285,147
Invalid votes  
Voter turnout  66.52%

Political context prior to the elections

Results of Past Chiayi City Magistrate Elections
Year Winning Candidate Political Party
1997 Chang Po-ya Independent
2001 Chen Li-chen Independent
2005 Huang Min-hui Kuomintang
2009 Huang Min-hui Kuomintang
2014 Twu Shiing-jer Democratic Progressive Party
Chiayi City
Highest vote share
Party Year Vote share %
Democratic Progressive Party 2016 presidential election 60%
Kuomintang 2005 local election 55%
2016 election results
Party Presidential % Legislative seat Legislative %
Democratic Progressive Party 59.86% 1 53.95%
Kuomintang 27.95% 0 35.66%
New Power Party - 0 -
Taiwan Solidarity Union - 0 -
People First Party 12.19% 0 -
Independent/Others - 0 10.39%

Results of the primary

2018 Democratic Progressive Party Chiayi City mayoral primary results
Candidates Place Result
Twu Shiing-jer Nominated Walkover
2018 Kuomintang Chiayi City mayoral primary results
Candidates Place Results
Huang Min-hui Nominated Results not released
Jack Lee 2nd Results not released

Opinion polls

Poll organization Dates conducted Twu Shiing-jer Huang Min-hui Hsiao Shu-li Not sure Lead
Yam News September 27, 2017 50.91% 49.09% - 0% 1.82%
Era Com Archived 2018-02-25 at the Wayback Machine January 15, 2018 22.08% 53.23% - 24.69% 31.15%
GSSC April 27, 2018 21.9% 34.4% 15.1% 28.6% 12.5%
ETtoday June 4, 2018 18.2% 31.2% 18.0% 32.6% 13%
CM Media September 5, 2018 39.5% 24.8% 18.9% 17% 15.3%
ETtoday1 September 16, 2018 26.0% 35.4% 10.7% 18.6% 9.4%
Liberty News Net2 September 29, 2018 30.14% 24.56% 17.91% 27.1% 5.58%
UDN3 October 2, 2018 25% 28% 17% 29% 3%
TVBS4 October 15, 2018 29% 35% 15% 20% 6%
Taiwan Competitiveness Forum5 October 25, 2018 25.6% 28% 15.3% 26.0% 2.4%
Taiwan Competitiveness Forum6 November 4, 2018 26.5% 28.8% 13.2% 25.9% 2.3%
UDN7 November 7, 2018 28% 31% 15% 24% 3%
Note:* Opinion polls includes independent candidates.

1 Huang Hung Chen Taiwan Ah Chen World Great Person Rich President(3.0%)
2 Huang Hung Chen Taiwan Ah Chen World Great Person Rich President(0.29%)
3 Huang Hung Chen Taiwan Ah Chen World Great Person Rich President(1%)
4 Huang Hung Chen Taiwan Ah Chen World Great Person Rich President(1%)
5 Huang Hung Chen Taiwan Ah Chen World Great Person Rich President(1.4%)
6 Huang Hung Chen Taiwan Ah Chen World Great Person Rich President(1.6%)
7 Huang Hung Chen Taiwan Ah Chen World Great Person Rich President(2%)

Predictions

Poll organization Date of completion Turnout Twu Shiing-jer Huang Min-hui Hsiao Shu-li Huang Hung Chen Taiwan Ah Chen World Great Person Rich President
TVBS October 15, 2018 70% 41% 40% 15% 1%

Results

District Hsiao Shui-li Huang Min-hui Huang Hung Chen Taiwan Ah Chen World Great Person Rich President Twu Shiing-jer
Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes %
East District (東區) 10,703 16.95 27,558 43.64 806 1.28 24,081 38.13
West District (西區) 14,869 0.40 31,000 39.21 1,016 1.29 32,175 40.70
2018 Chiayi City mayoral results
No. Candidate Party Votes Percentage
1 Hsiao Shui-li (蕭淑麗) Independent 25,572 17.98%
2 Huang Min-hui (黃敏惠) Kuomintang 58,558 41.18%
3 Huang Hung Chen Taiwan Ah Chen World Great Person Rich President (黃宏成台灣阿成

世界偉人財神總統)

Independent 1,822 1.28%
4 Twu Shiing-jer (涂醒哲) Democratic Progressive Party 56,256 39.56%
Total voters  212,843
Valid votes  142,208
Invalid votes  
Voter turnout  66.81%

Political context prior to the elections

Results of Past Pingtung County Magistrate Elections
Year Winning Candidate Political Party
1997 Su Jia-chyuan Democratic Progressive Party
2001 Su Jia-chyuan Democratic Progressive Party
2005 Tsao Chi-hung Democratic Progressive Party
2009 Tsao Chi-hung Democratic Progressive Party
2014 Pan Men-an Democratic Progressive Party
Pingtung County
Highest vote share
Party Year Vote share %
Democratic Progressive Party 2016 presidential election 63%
Kuomintang 2008 presidential election 49%
2016 election results
Party Presidential % Legislative seats Legislative %
Democratic Progressive Party 63.49% 3 58.94%
Kuomintang 26.99% 0 30.89%
New Power Party - 0 -
Taiwan Solidarity Union - 0 -
People First Party 9.52% 0 -
Independent/Others - 0 10.17%

Results of the primary

2018 Democratic Progressive Party Pingtung County magistrate primary results
Candidates Place Result
Pan Men-an Nominated Walkover
2018 Kuomintang Pingtung County magistrate primary results
Candidates Place Result
Su Ching-chuan Called In Walkover

Opinion polls

Poll organization Date of completion Pan Men-an Su Ching-chuan Not sure Lead
ETtoday June 19, 2018 37.9% 20.9% 29.9% 17%
ETtoday1 September 30, 2017 36.4% 24.8% 22.5% 11.6%
TISR2 October 22, 2018 43.4% 17.1% 33.1% 26.3%
TISR2 November 10, 2018 41.6% 19.3% 33.4% 22.3%
Note:* Opinion polls includes independent candidates.

1 Lee Jung-jen(4.5%)
2 Lee Jung-jen(1.5%)
3 Lee Jung-jen(0.7%)

Results

District Lee Jung-jen Su Ching-chuan Pan Men-an
Votes % Votes % Votes %
Pingtung City (屏東市) 2,182 2.14 46,320 45.47 53,370 52.39
Chaozhou Township (潮州鎮) 623 2.16 12,571 43.62 15,628 54.22
Donggang Township (東港鎮) 575 2.38 11,387 47.04 12,243 50.58
Hengchun Township (恆春鎮) 232 1.40 6,729 40.55 9,632 58.05
Wandan Township (萬丹鄉) 825 2.84 11,272 38.87 16,905 58.29
Changzhi Township (長治鄉) 381 2.20 6,939 40.05 10,006 57.75
Linluo Township (麟洛鄉) 160 2.25 2,526 35.45 4,440 62.31
Jiuru Township (九如鄉) 294 2.22 3,977 30.03 8,972 67.75
Ligang Township (里港鄉) 393 2.54 5,371 34.75 9,692 62.71
Yanpu Township (鹽埔鄉) 387 2.43 6,561 41.20 8,977 56.37
Gaoshu Township (高樹鄉) 347 2.22 5,402 34.53 9,897 63.26
Wanluan Township (萬巒鄉) 198 1.61 3,866 31.41 8,245 66.98
Neipu Township (內埔鄉) 539 1.86 10,697 36.84 17,799 61.30
Zhutian Township (竹田鄉) 216 1.94 4,040 36.23 6,894 61.83
Xinpi Township (新埤鄉) 100 1.55 2,663 41.34 3,678 57.10
Fangliao Township (枋寮鄉) 308 2.03 7,635 50.44 7,194 47.53
Xinyuan Township (新園鄉) 523 2.52 8,167 39.28 12,100 58.20
Kanding Township (崁頂鄉) 155 1.87 3,219 38.80 4,923 59.33
Linbian Township (林邊鄉) 193 1.71 4,376 38.84 6,699 59.45
Nanzhou Township (南州鄉) 159 2.25 3,024 42.84 3,876 54.91
Jiadong Township (佳冬鄉) 165 1.39 4,432 37.29 7,288 61.32
Liqiu Township (琉球鄉) 116 1.69 4,763 69.26 1,998 29.05
Checheng Township (車城鄉) 74 1.40 1,786 33.67 3,444 64.93
Manzhou Township (滿州鄉) 89 1.68 1,994 37.68 3,209 60.64
Fangshan Township (枋山鄉) 72 1.85 1,385 35.63 2,430 62.52
Sandimen Township (三地門鄉) 85 1.65 2,895 56.14 2,177 42.21
Wutai Township (霧臺鄉) 46 1.85 1,129 45.34 1,315 52.81
Majia Township (瑪家鄉) 65 1.42 2,350 51.40 2,157 47.18
Taiwu Township (泰武鄉) 42 1.17 1,668 46.62 1,868 52.21
Laiyi Township (來義鄉) 64 1.35 2,673 56.24 2,016 42.42
Chunri Township (春日鄉) 71 2.35 1,737 57.38 1,219 40.27
Shizi Township (獅子鄉) 72 2.10 2,192 64.02 1,160 33.88
Mudan Township (牡丹鄉) 68 2.13 1,772 55.41 1,358 42.46
2018 Pingtung County mayoral results[44]
No. Candidate Party Votes Percentage
1 Lee Jung-jen (李鎔任) Independent 9,819 2.09%
2 Su Ching-chuan (蘇清泉) Kuomintang 197,518 42.01%
3 Pan Men-an (潘孟安) Democratic Progressive Party 262,809 55.90%
Total voters  689,393
Valid votes  470,146
Invalid votes  
Voter turnout  68.20%

Political context prior to the elections

Results of Past Hualien County Magistrate Elections
Year Winning Candidate Political Party
1997 Chang Fu-hsin Kuomintang
2001 Chang Fu-hsin Kuomintang
2005 Hsieh Shen-shan Kuomintang
2009 Fu Kun-chi Independent
2014 Fu Kun-chi Independent
Hualien County
Highest vote share
Party Year Vote share %
Democratic Progressive Party 2016 legislative election 53%
Kuomintang 2008 presidential election 77%
2016 election results
Party Presidential % Legislative seat Legislative %
Democratic Progressive Party 36.94% 1 53.77%
Kuomintang 47.72% 0 43.58%
New Power Party - 0 -
Taiwan Solidarity Union - 0 -
People First Party 15.34% 0 -
Independent/Others - 0 2.65%

Results of the primary

2018 Kuomintang Hualien County magistrate primary results
Candidates Place Result
Hsu Chen-wei Called In Walkover
2018 Democratic Progressive Party Hualien County magistrate primary results
Candidates Place Result
Liu Siao-Mei Called In Walkover

Opinion polls

Poll organization Dates conducted Hsu Chen-wei Liu Siao-Mei Not sure Lead
China Times March 25, 2018 40.1% 17.0% 42.9% 23.1%
ETtoday June 13, 2018 44.4% 19.0% 36.6% 25.4%

Results

District Hsu Chen-wei Liu Siao-Mei Huang Shih-peng
Votes % Votes % Votes %
Hualien City (花蓮市) 32,399 65.99 15,065 30.68 1,635 3.33
Fenglin Township (鳳林鎮) 4,991 76.26 1,418 21.67 136 2.08
Yuli Township (玉里鎮) 9,193 76.13 2,646 21.91 237 1.96
Xincheng Township (新城鄉) 7,551 71.41 2,716 25.69 307 2.90
Ji'an Township (吉安鄉) 28,510 68.51 11,845 28.46 1,260 3.03
Shoufeng Township (壽豐鄉) 7,438 71.53 2,732 26.27 229 2.20
Guangfu Township (光復鄉) 5,830 77.36 1,553 20.61 153 2.03
Fengbin Township (豐濱鄉) 2,471 77.70 629 19.78 80 2.52
Ruisui Township (瑞穗鄉) 5,010 75.78 1,487 22.49 114 1.72
Fuli Township (富里鄉) 4,628 77.81 1,229 20.66 91 1.53
Xiulin Township (秀林鄉) 7,074 80.55 1,629 18.55 79 0.90
Wanrong Township (萬榮鄉) 3,205 83.70 567 14.81 57 1.49
Zuoxi Township (卓溪鄉) 2,997 88.10 363 10.67 42 1.23
2018 Hualien County mayoral results[45]
No. Candidate Party Votes Percentage
1 Hsu Chen-wei (徐榛蔚) Kuomintang 121,297 71.52%
2 Liu Siao-Mei (劉曉玫) Democratic Progressive Party 43,879 25.87%
3 Huang Shih-peng (黃師鵬) Independent 4,420 2.61%
Total voters  268,817
Valid votes  169,596
Invalid votes  
Voter turnout  63.09%

Political context prior to the elections

Results of Past Taitung County Magistrate Elections
Year Winning Candidate Political Party
1997 Chen Jen-nian Kuomintang
2001 Hsu Ching-yuan People First Party
2005 Wu Chun-li Independent
2006 Kuang Li-chen Kuomintang
2009 Justin Huang Kuomintang
2014 Justin Huang Kuomintang
Taitung County
Highest vote share
Party Year Vote share %
Democratic Progressive Party 2016 legislative election 64%
Kuomintang 2008 presidential election 73%
2016 election results
Party Presidential % Legislative seat Legislative %
Democratic Progressive Party 38.41% 1 64.18%
Kuomintang 44.62% 0 35.82%
New Power Party - 0 -
Taiwan Solidarity Union - 0 -
People First Party 16.96% 0 -
Independent/Others - 0 -

Results of the primary

2018 Democratic Progressive Party Taitung County magistrate primary results
Candidates Place Result
Liu Chao-hao Called In Walkover
2018 Kuomintang Taitung County magistrate primary results
Candidates Place Results
Rao Ching-ling Nominated Results not released
Liao Kuo-tung 2nd Results not released

Opinion polls

Poll organization Dates conducted Rao Ching-ling Liu Chao-hao Not sure Lead
ETtoday June 22, 2018 34.1% 27.8% 38.1% 6.3%
China Times October 2, 2018 38.6% 30.3% 27.8% 8.3%
TVBS2 October 10, 2018 40% 31% 24% 9%
ETtoday3 October 21, 2018 36.7% 25.9% 23.1% 9%
Note:* Opinion polls includes independent candidates.

1 Kuang Li-zhen(3.3%); Peng Chuan-kuo(1.0%); Huang Yu-pin(0.0%) 2 Kuang Li-zhen(5%); Peng Chuan-kuo(0.2%); Huang Yu-pin(1.0%)

3 Kuang Li-zhen(4.6%); Peng Chuan-kuo(4%); Huang Yu-pin(1.3%)

Results

District Kuang Li-zhen Liu Chao-hao Huang Yu-pin Peng Chuan-kuo Rao Ching-ling
Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes %
Taitung City (臺東市) 994 1.78 22,681 40.72 282 0.51 525 0.94 31,213 65.99
Chenggong Township (成功鎮) 251 3.41 2,536 34.41 43 0.58 59 0.80 4,481 60.80
Guanshan Township (關山鎮) 120 2.37 1,779 35.12 28 0.55 44 0.87 3,094 61.09
Binan Township (卑南鄉) 227 2.36 3,583 37.28 37 0.39 64 0.67 5,699 59.30
Luye Township (鹿野鄉) 134 2.93 1,992 43.50 33 0.72 35 0.76 2,385 52.09
Chishang Township (池上鄉) 103 2.32 1,704 38.40 23 0.52 19 0.43 2,588 58.33
Donghe Township (東河鄉) 160 3.40 1,687 35.83 31 0.66 48 1.02 2,782 59.09
Changbin Township (長濱鄉) 186 4.79 1,293 33.32 25 0.64 29 0.75 2,347 60.49
Taimali Township (太麻里鄉) 164 2.46 2,184 32.75 33 0.49 37 0.55 4,251 63.74
Dawu Township (大武鄉) 126 3.47 1,172 32.27 23 0.63 29 0.80 2,282 62.83
Ludao Township (綠島鄉) 48 2.06 719 30.81 5 0.21 26 1.11 1,536 65.81
Haiduan Township (海端鄉) 68 3.06 467 21.04 9 0.41 15 0.68 1,661 74.82
Yanping Township (延平鄉) 104 4.58 460 20.25 20 0.88 11 0.48 1,677 73.81
Jinfeng Township (金峰鄉) 60 2.45 606 24.75 6 0.25 6 0.25 1,770 72.30
Daren Township (達仁鄉) 97 3.93 641 25.95 16 0.65 9 0.36 1,707 69.11
Lanyu Township (蘭嶼鄉) 207 9.72 607 35.70 26 1.22 32 1.50 1,104 51.86
2018 Taitung County mayoral results
No. Candidate Party Votes Percentage
1 Kuang Li-zhen (鄺麗貞) Independent 3,049 2.55%
2 Liu Chao-hao (劉櫂豪) Democratic Progressive Party 44,264 37.04%
3 Huang Yu-pin (黃裕斌) Independent 640 0.54%
4 Peng Chuan-kuo (彭權國) Independent 988 0.83%
5 Rao Ching-ling (饒慶鈴) Kuomintang 70,577 59.05%
Total voters  179,706
Valid votes  119,518
Invalid votes  
Voter turnout  66.51%

Political context prior to the elections

Results of Past Penghu County Magistrate Elections
Year Winning Candidate Political Party
1997 Lai Feng-wei Kuomintang
2001 Lai Feng-wei Kuomintang
2005 Lai Feng-wei Kuomintang
2009 Wang Chien-fa Kuomintang
2014 Chen Kuang-fu Democratic Progressive Party
Penghu County
Highest vote share
Party Year Vote share %
Democratic Progressive Party Taiwan local election, 1993 58%
Kuomintang 2008 presidential election 58%
2016 election results
Party Presidential % Legislative seat Legislative %
Democratic Progressive Party 50.81% 1 55.40%
Kuomintang 29.48% 0 39.99%
New Power Party - 0 -
Taiwan Solidarity Union - 0 -
People First Party 19.71% 0 -
Independent/Others - 0 4.61%

Result of the primary

2018 Democratic Progressive Party Penghu County magistrate primary results
Candidates Place Result
Chen Kuang-fu Nominated Walkover
2018 Kuomintang Penghu County magistrate primary results
Candidates Place Results
Lai Feng Wei Called In Called in after negotiation

Opinion polls

Poll organization Date of completion Chen Kuang-fu Lai Feng-wei Not sure Lead
Era Com January 19, 2018 26.41% 39.39% 34.2% 12.98%
ETtoday1 July 8, 2018 20.1% 29.1% 32.1% 9%
Shih Shin University2 October 17, 2018 14.9% 23.3% 45% 8.4%
Note:* Opinion polls includes independent candidates.

1 Cheng Ching-fa(4.8%); Wu Cheng-lung(3.1%)
2 Cheng Ching-fa(5.6%); Wu Cheng-lung(2.3%); Chen Ta-sung(5.0%); On Lee-la (0.8%); Lu Hwa-yuann(0.0%)

Results

District On Lee-la Cheng Ching-fa Chen Ta-sung Wu Cheng-lung Lai Feng-wei Chen Kuang-fu Lu Hwa-yuann
Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes %
Magong City (馬公市) 664 2.13 2,536 8.15 4,215 13.54 1,606 5.16 12,806 41.14 9,043 29.05 257 0.83
Huxi Township (湖西鄉) 93 1.19 797 10.17 563 7.18 733 9.35 2,452 31.28 3,084 39.34 117 1.49
Baisha Township (白沙鄉) 95 1.86 322 6.29 475 9.28 306 5.98 1,951 38.13 1,931 37.74 37 0.72
Xiyu Township (西嶼鄉) 434 10.73 218 5.39 305 7.54 209 5.17 1,558 38.54 1,294 32.01 25 0.62
Wangan Township (望安鄉) 70 2.40 392 13.44 195 6.69 88 3.02 841 28.84 1,310 44.92 20 0.69
Cimei Township (七美鄉) 23 1.23 65 3.47 69 3.68 57 3.04 962 51.36 685 36.57 12 0.64
2018 Penghu County mayoral results[46]
No. Candidate Party Votes Percentage
1 On Lee-la (翁珍聖) Independent 1,379 2.61%
2 Cheng Ching-fa (鄭清發) Independent 4,330 8.18%
3 Chen Ta-sung (陳大松) Independent 5,822 11.00%
4 Wu Cheng-lung (吳政隆) Independent 2,999 5.67%
5 Lai Feng-wei (賴峰偉) Kuomintang 20,570 38.87%
6 Chen Kuang-fu (陳光復) Democratic Progressive Party 17,347 32.78%
7 Lu Hwa-yuann (呂華苑) Independent 468 0.88%
Total voters  86,603
Valid votes  52,915
Invalid votes  
Voter turnout  61.10%

Political context prior to the elections

Results of Past Kinmen County Magistrate Elections
Year Winning Candidate Political Party
1997 Chen Shui-zai Kuomintang
2001 Lee Chu-feng New Party
2005 Lee Chu-feng New Party
2009 Li Wo-shi Kuomintang
2014 Chen Fu-hai Independent
Kinmen County
Highest vote share
Party Year Vote share %
Democratic Progressive Party 2016 legislative election 23%
Kuomintang 2008 presidential election 95%
2016 election results
Party Presidential % Legislative seat Legislative %
Democratic Progressive Party 18.00% 0 23.07%
Kuomintang 66.10% 1 45.08%
New Power Party - 0 -
Taiwan Solidarity Union - 0 -
People First Party 15.90% 0 -
Independent/Others - 0 31.85%

Results of the primary

2018 Kuomintang Kinmen County magistrate primary results
Candidates Place Result
Yang Cheng-wu Called In Walkover

Opinion polls

Poll organization Date of completion Yang Cheng-wu Chen Fu-hai Not sure Lead
Polls July 17, 2018 32.7% 30.6% 36.7% 2.1%
ETtoday July 23, 2018 28% 23% 40.4% 5%

Results

District Yang Cheng-wu Kinmen Gaoliang Party Hung Chih-heng UNESCO budget e-league Wang Cheng-hua Chen Fu-hai Hsieh Yi-zhen Hong Ho-cheng
Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes %
Jincheng Township (金城鎮) 8,137 54.28 299 1.99 257 0.80 5,916 39.47 412 2.75 106 0.71
Jinsha Township (金沙鎮) 2,974 38.56 87 1.13 50 0.65 4,412 57.20 151 1.96 39 0.51
Jinhu Township (金湖鎮) 4,204 39.07 115 1.07 75 0.70 5,855 54.42 457 4.25 53 0.49
Jinning Township (金寧鄉) 5,989 54.92 206 1.89 140 1.28 4,204 38.55 275 2.52 90 0.83
Lieyu Township (烈嶼鄉) 2,154 46.28 124 2.66 18 0.39 2,186 46.97 94 2.02 78 1.68
Wuqiu Township (烏坵鄉) 62 29.67 1 0.48 146 69.86
2018 Kinmen County mayoral results[47]
No. Candidate Party Votes Percentage
1 Yang Cheng-wu (楊鎮浯) Kuomintang 23,520 47.48%
2 Hung Chih-heng (洪志恒) Kinmen Gaoliang Party 832 1.69%
3 Wang Cheng-hua (汪承樺) UNESCO budget e-league 403 0.82%
4 Chen Fu-hai (陳福海) Independent 22,719 46.15%
5 Hsieh Yi-zhen (謝宜璋) Independent 1,389 2.82%
6 Hong Ho-cheng (洪和成) Independent 366 0.74%
Total voters 117,913
Valid votes 49,229
Invalid votes  
Voter turnout  41.75%

Political context prior to the elections

Results of Past Lienchiang County Magistrate Elections
Year Winning Candidate Political Party
1997 Liu Li-qun Kuomintang
2001 Chen Hsueh-sheng People First Party
2005 Chen Hsueh-sheng People First Party
2009 Yang Sui-sheng Kuomintang
2014 Liu Cheng-ying Kuomintang
Lienchiang County
Highest vote share
Party Year Vote share %
Democratic Progressive Party 2016 presidential election 17%
Kuomintang 2009 local election 49%
2016 election results
Party Presidential % Legislative seat Legislative %
Democratic Progressive Party 16.54% 0 -
Kuomintang 68.60% 1 68.07%
New Power Party - 0 -
Taiwan Solidarity Union - 0 -
People First Party 14.86% 0 -
Independent/Others - 0 31.93%

Results of the primary

2018 Kuomintang Lienchiang County magistrate primary results
Candidates Place Result
Liu Cheng-ying Called In Walkover

Opinion polls

Poll organization Date of completion Liu Cheng-ying Su Po-hao Not sure Lead
ETtoday July 8, 2018 50% 9.8% 24.2% 40.2%

Results

District Su Po-hao Chu Hsiu-chen Wei Yao-kan Liu Cheng-ying
Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes %
Nangan Township (南竿鄉) 542 12.98 871 20.86 169 4.05 2,594 62.12
Beigan Township (北竿鄉) 135 9.17 147 9.99 51 3.46 1,139 77.38
Luguang Township (莒光鄉) 100 9.17 182 16.70 76 6.97 732 67.16
Dongyin Township (東引鄉) 150 22.39 84 12.54 40 5.97 396 59.10
2018 Lienchiang County mayoral results[48]
No. Candidate Party Votes Percentage
1 Su Po-hao (蘇柏豪) Tree Party 927 12.51%
2 Chu Hsiu-chen (朱秀珍) Independent 1,284 17.33%
3 Wei Yao-kan (魏耀乾) Independent 356 4.54%
4 Liu Cheng-ying (劉增應) Kuomintang 4,861 65.62%
Total voters 10,773 
Valid votes  7,408
Invalid votes  
Voter turnout  68.76%

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