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2009 Taiwanese local elections

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2009 Taiwanese local elections
← 2006 5 December 2009 (2009-12-05)[1] 2010 →
17 magistrates/mayors and others[a]
Registered7,051,039
Turnout63.34% Decrease 2.87 pp[b]
  First party Second party
 
Leader Ma Ying-jeou Tsai Ing-wen
Party Kuomintang DPP
Leader since 17 October 2009 20 May 2008
Last election 11 seats, 49.80% 3 seats, 38.19%
Seats won 12 4
Seat change Increase 1 Increase 1
Popular vote 2,094,518 1,982,914
Percentage 47.88% 45.32%
Swing Decrease 1.93 pp Increase 7.13 pp
Councillors 289 128
Township/city mayors 121 34
Elected magistrate/mayor party by seat

Local elections were held in Taiwan on 5 December 2009 to elect magistrates of counties and mayors of cities, councillors in county/city councils, and mayors of townships and county-administered cities, known as the three-in-one elections (Chinese: 三合一選舉). The elections were not held in the special municipalities of Kaohsiung and Taipei as well as the counties and cities that were set to be reform as special municipalities in 2010, including Taipei County, Taichung County, Taichung City, Tainan County, Tainan City, or Kaohsiung County. The new formed municipalities has their elections in 2010.[2]

Election summaries

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Magistrate and mayor elections

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In the elections held for the 17 posts of county magistrates and city mayors, the Kuomintang (KMT) won control of 12 Counties and Cities, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won control of 4 Counties, while the remaining county, Hualien, was won by an independent candidate.[2] The DPP won 1,982,914 votes, or 45.32 per cent, which was a substantial increase from its 41.95 per cent in the 2005 elections. On the other hand, the KMT received 2,094,518 votes, or 47.87 percent, which was less than the 50.96 percent it won in the 2005 elections of 23 county magistrates and city mayors.

The KMT's traditional strongholds of Northern Taiwan was maintained, although its complete dominance in Northern Taiwan, was terminated when DPP candidate won the Election for the Yilan County Magistrate by a large margin.[3] However, this north-eastern county was once a DPP stronghold for more than two decades until KMT incumbent Lu Kuo-hua, won power four years ago.[3] In Keelung City and Hsinchu City the KMT incumbent Mayors won by a considerable margin, although in Taoyuan County, the KMT candidate won by an unexpectedly narrow margin.[4] The fiercely contested position for Hsinchu County Magistrate, was eventually won by a KMT candidate who received 38% of the vote, whilst the DPP candidate garnered 31%, and an independent candidate received 30%.[4]

In Central Taiwan, all four of the incumbent Magistrates secured their second term. In the traditionally Pan-Blue stronghold of Miaoli County, the KMT incumbent Magistrate won his second term with a large margin of approximately 30% of the votes.[4] While in Changhua County and Nantou County, the KMT incumbent Magistrates both gained just over 50% of the votes, to secure their second terms.[4] In Yunlin County, the DPP incumbent Magistrate gained nearly twice the number of votes as her opposition KMT candidate to secure her second term.[4]

The DPP maintained its traditional strongholds of Southern Taiwan, winning both Chiayi County and Pingtung County by a great margin of 15% and 20% respectively.[4] The KMT incumbent Mayor of Chiayi City won her second term by an unexpectedly narrow margin of 8000 votes.[4] In Eastern Taiwan, the KMT's candidate for Taitung County Magistrate won the DPP's candidate by less 6000 votes, whilst Hualien County Magistrate was won by an Independent Candidate who gained more than twice the number of votes of his opposition KMT candidate. In the outlying islands, the incumbent Magistrate of Penghu County won the DPP's Candidate by less than 600 Votes, whilst in Kinmen County and Lienchiang County, the KMT Candidates gained respectively 38% and 57% of the vote to win both posts.

Councillor elections

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The KMT maintained its unchallenged majority in the county and city councilmen elections, winning 289 seats of the 17 County and City Councils. The DPP won 128 seats, the Taiwan Solidarity Union won 3 seats, the People First Party won 1 seat and the Labor Party won 1 seat. The remaining 170 seats were won by independent candidates. The KMT won 43.94% of the votes, while the DPP won 24.42%.[4]

Township Chiefs

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The KMT maintained its unchallenged majority in the township chiefs elections, winning 121 posts. The DPP won 34 posts, while the remaining 56 posts were won by independent candidates. The KMT won 48.82% of the votes, while the DPP won 20.04%.[4]

Results

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Taiwanese local elections, 2009
Party County Magistrates and City Mayors County and City Council legislators Township Chiefs
Votes Percentage Seats Votes Percentage Seats Votes Percentage Seats
Kuomintang 2,094,518 47.88% 12 1,920,086 43.94% 289 1,865,159 48.82% 121
Democratic Progressive Party 1,982,914 45.32% 4 1,067,010 24.42% 128 765,816 20.04% 34
Taiwan Solidarity Union － － － 27,286 0.62% 3 － － －
People First Party － － － 5,748 0.13% 1 － － －
Labor Party － － － 4,736 0.11% 1 － － －
Hakka Party 15,807 0.36% 0 － － － － － －
Noble Savior Party － － － － － － 7,966 0.21% 0
Chinese Reunification Party － － － － － － 2,257 0.06% 0
Green Party － － － 843 0.02% 0 － － －
Taiwan Nationalist Party － － － 208 0.00% 0 － － －
Independent 281,693 6.44% 1 1,344,232 30.76% 170 2,095,128 28.00% 56
Total 4,374,932 100.00% 17 4,379,149 100.00% 587 3,820,810 100.00% 211
Voter turnout 63.34% 63.39% 64.11%

Magistrate/mayor elections

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Taiwanese county magistrates and city mayoral elections, 2009
County/City Winning Candidate Party Votes Percentage
Changhua County Cho Po-yuan Kuomintang 348,341 54.89%
Chiayi City Huang Min-hui Kuomintang 69,962 52.20%
Chiayi County Helen Chang Democratic Progressive Party 177,333 55.92%
Hsinchu City Hsu Ming-tsai Kuomintang 92,667 55.63%
Hsinchu County Chiu Ching-chun Kuomintang 97,151 38.49%
Hualien County Fu Kun-chi Independent[c] 85,532 56.37%
Keelung City Chang Tong-rong Kuomintang 86,001 55.11%
Kinmen County Li Wo-shi Kuomintang 14,269 37.28%
Lienchiang County Yang Sui-sheng Kuomintang 3,135 57.19%
Miaoli County Liu Cheng-hung Kuomintang 181,256 63.79%
Nantou County Lee Chao-ching Kuomintang 136,951 50.87%
Penghu County Wang Chien-fa Kuomintang 22,664 49.37%
Pingtung County Tsao Chi-hung Democratic Progressive Party 270,402 59.33%
Taitung County Justin Huang Kuomintang 56,354 52.59%
Taoyuan County John Wu Kuomintang 396,237 52.22%
Yilan County Lin Tsung-hsien Democratic Progressive Party 133,394 54.26%
Yunlin County Su Chih-fen Democratic Progressive Party 229,958 65.37%

Councillor elections

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Taiwanese county and city councilmen elections, 2009
County/City No. of seats won by each party
KMT DPP TSU PFP Labor Green TNP IND
Changhua County 26 14 0 － － － － 14
Chiayi City 8 6 1 － － － － 9
Chiayi County 10 16 0 － － － － 11
Hsinchu City 12 7 － － － － － 14
Hsinchu County 23 2 － － 1 － － 9
Hualien County 25 5 － － － － － 3
Keelung City 20 9 0 1 － － － 2
Kinmen County 9 0 － － － － － 10
Lienchiang County 4 － － － － － － 5
Miaoli County 20 4 － － － － － 14
Nantou County 15 5 － － － － － 17
Penghu County 10 2 － － － 0 － 7
Pingtung County 25 12 0 － － － － 18
Taitung County 22 1 1 － － － － 6
Taoyuan County 30 17 － 0 － － 0 13
Yilan County 17 15 － 0 － － － 2
Yunlin County 13 13 1 － － － － 16

Township/city mayor elections

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Taiwanese township chiefs elections, 2009
County No. of posts won by each party
KMT DPP NSP CRP IND
Changhua County 15 2 － － 9
Chiayi County 5 8 － 0 5
Hsinchu County 11 － － － 2
Hualien County 12 1 － － 0
Kinmen County 6 － － － 0
Lienchiang County 4 － － － 0
Miaoli County 14 － － － 4
Nantou County 8 1 0 － 4
Penghu County 5 0 － － 1
Pingtung County 12 10 － － 11
Taitung County 14 － － － 2
Taoyuan County 7 2 － － 4
Yilan County 6 4 － － 2
Yunlin County 2 6 － － 12

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^
    • 592 councillors
    • 211 township/city mayors
    Figures in this infobox are for magistrate/mayor elections unless otherwise noted
  2. ^ Compared to the turnout of the 23 magistrate/mayor elections of 2005
  3. ^ Fu Kun-chi was a member of Kuomintang. He ran as independent after lost the primary elections. He later expelled from the party.

References

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  1. ^ "中選會選舉資料庫網站". cec.gov.tw (in Chinese). Retrieved 16 January 2020.
  2. ^ a b ELECTIONS: ANALYSIS: KMT’s lackluster performance seen as warning to Ma, Taipei Times, 6 December 2009.
  3. ^ a b KMT loses luster in local elections, Taiwan Today, 7 December 2009.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i Central Election Commission Election Database. (in Chinese)
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