Taiwan’s 9-to-1 election began at 8:00 on Saturday (26) and polling stations closed at 16:00. Vote counting began immediately. The KMT temporarily leads the DPP and other candidates in many counties and cities. Vote counting in the Taipei mayoral election, which received the most attention, was very intense. Kuomintang candidate Jiang Wanan trailed DPP candidate Chen Shizhong by more than 30,000 votes. congratulated Jiang Wanan.
Currently, the relative statistical and billing operations are carried out at each polling station. According to statistics from the Taipei City Election Commission, the total turnout rate in the city was about 64%, slightly lower than the voter turnout rate of 65.97% in the 2018 Taipei mayoral election. According to the preliminary statistics of New Taipei City, the voter turnout rate this year was about 55.5%, the lowest turnout rate since the city was transformed into a municipality in 2010. The election commission of the city of Keelung initially estimated the turnout rate in Keelung this year to be just 58.3 percent.
In the Taoyuan mayoral election, the KMT’s Zhang Shanzheng is currently ahead of the DPP’s Zheng Yunpeng. The sitting mayors of Xinbei, Taichung, Tainan and Kaohsiung are led by the KMT’s Hou Youyi, Lu Xiuyan, Huang Weizhe and Chen Qimai respectively of the DPP in front of their main opponents Lin Jialong, Cai Qichang, Xie Longjie, Ke Zhien. In addition to Liudu, Hsinchu’s mayoral achievements in other counties and cities also attracted attention: People’s Party candidate Gao Hongan is currently leading the second DPP candidate Shen Huihong.
In the Miaoli County magistrate election, KMT candidate Xie Fuhong took the lead in announcing his defeat. In the Keelung mayoral election, the Kuomintang’s Xie Guoliang led the way, and after more than 90,000 votes, declared himself elected, “turning the green field.” Wang Zhongming, the KMT candidate for Lianjiang county magistrate, also ran for office around the same time.
