Local elections were held on 24 November 2018[2][3] in Taiwan, to elect county magistrates (city mayors), county (city) councilors, township mayors, township councilors and chiefs of village (borough) in 6 municipalities and 16 counties (cities). Elected officials would serve a four-year term. Polling stations were open from 08:00 to 16:00 on the election day.[4]
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22 magistrates/mayors and others[a] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Registered | 19,102,502 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Turnout | 66.11% ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The elections resulted in a substantial defeat for the DPP. The DPP previously held 13 of 22 municipalities and counties, but won only 6 in this election due to widespread public distrust, a de facto vote of no confidence on President Tsai's Administration, both politically (relations with China), economically (agriculture, tourism), and socially (pollution, labor laws, wages), which were reflected in the series of referendum results.[citation needed] The KMT won back executive control of 7 municipalities and counties from the DPP, while Ko Wen-je won his re-election for Taipei mayor.
Background
editThis local election was seen as the first test for the incumbent President Tsai Ing-wen since assuming office in May 2016. The Central Election Commission opened election registration to candidates on 27 August 2018.[5]
The Democratic Progressive Party has won the popular vote against the Kuomintang in all of the last three elections.[6] This trend has continued in the 2016 elections, where the Democratic Progressive Party won a majority in the Legislative Yuan with 68 seats and the presidency.
Results summary
editMagistrate and mayor elections
editOpinion polls
editPoll organization | Date completed | KMT | DPP | Others | Ind |
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TPOF | 2018-11-08 | 33.9% | 24.2% | - | 14.9% |
Trend Survey | 2018-11-06 | 36.4% | 25.9% | 0.8% | 15.2% |
Taiwan Brain Trust | 2018-07-28 | 29.5% | 38.6% | 0.4% | 10.5% |
Results
editSubdivision | Electorate | Turnout (%) | Winner | Runner-up | Map | ||||||
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Name | Votes | % | Name | Votes | % | ||||||
New Taipei City | 3,264,128 | 62.46 | Hou You-yi | 1,165,130 | 57.15 | Su Tseng-chang | 873,692 | 42.85 | |||
Taipei City | 2,164,155 | 65.37 | Ko Wen-je | 580,820 | 41.05 | Ting Shou-chung | 577,566 | 40.82 | |||
Taoyuan City | 1,732,591 | 59.63 | Cheng Wen-tsan | 552,330 | 53.46 | Apollo Chen | 407,234 | 39.42 | |||
Taichung City | 2,213,789 | 66.12 | Lu Shiow-yen | 827,996 | 56.57 | Lin Chia-lung | 619,855 | 42.35 | |||
Tainan City | 1,546,862 | 62.49 | Huang Wei-cher | 367,518 | 38.02 | Kao Su-po | 312,874 | 32.37 | |||
Kaohsiung City | 2,281,338 | 72.63 | Han Kuo-yu | 892,545 | 53.87 | Chen Chi-mai | 742,239 | 44.80 | |||
Yilan County | 373,510 | 66.97 | Lin Zi-miao | 123,767 | 49.48 | Chen Ou-po | 95,609 | 38.23 | |||
Hsinchu County | 427,652 | 66.03 | Yang Wen-ke | 107,877 | 38.20 | Hsu Hsin-ying | 91,190 | 32.29 | |||
Miaoli County | 446,507 | 68.17 | Hsu Yao-chang | 175,756 | 57.74 | Hsu Ting-zhen | 112,704 | 37.03 | |||
Changhua County | 1,031,222 | 68.89 | Wang Huei-mei | 377,795 | 53.18 | Wei Ming-ku | 283,269 | 39.87 | |||
Nantou County | 413,222 | 70.87 | Lin Ming-chen | 195,385 | 66.72 | Hung Kuo-hao | 97,460 | 33.28 | |||
Yunlin County | 565,078 | 69.29 | Chang Li-shan | 210,770 | 53.82 | Lee Chin-yung | 163,325 | 41.72 | |||
Chiayi County | 428,649 | 66.52 | Weng Chang-liang | 145,288 | 50.95 | Wu Yu-jen | 84,243 | 29.54 | |||
Pingtung County | 689,393 | 68.20 | Pan Men-an | 262,809 | 55.90 | Su Ching-chuan | 197,518 | 42.01 | |||
Taitung County | 179,706 | 66.51 | Rao Ching-ling | 70,577 | 59.05 | Liu Chao-hao | 44,264 | 37.04 | |||
Hualien County | 268,817 | 63.09 | Hsu Chen-wei | 121,297 | 71.52 | Liu Siao-Mei | 43,879 | 25.87 | |||
Penghu County | 86,603 | 61.10 | Lai Feng-wei | 20,570 | 38.87 | Chen Kuang-fu | 17,347 | 32.78 | |||
Keelung City | 309,428 | 60.98 | Lin Yu-chang | 102,167 | 54.14 | Hsieh Li-kung | 86,529 | 45.86 | |||
Hsinchu City | 338,323 | 64.17 | Lin Chih-chien | 107,612 | 49.57 | Hsu Ming-tsai | 60,508 | 27.87 | |||
Chiayi City | 212,843 | 66.81 | Huang Min-hui | 58,558 | 41.18 | Twu Shiing-jer | 56,256 | 39.56 | |||
Kinmen County | 117,913 | 41.75 | Yang Cheng-wu | 23,520 | 47.48 | Chen Fu-hai | 22,719 | 46.15 | |||
Lienchiang County | 10,773 | 68.76 | Liu Cheng-ying | 4,861 | 65.62 | Chu Hsiu-chen | 1,284 | 17.33 |
Councillor elections
editNominations
editProvince | County | Members | KMT | DPP | TSU | PFP | NP | New Power Party | IND/Other |
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Special municipality | |||||||||
Taipei | 63 | 33 | 27 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 48 | |
New Taipei | 66 | 36 | 36 | 3 | 6 | 41 | |||
Taoyuan | 63 | 38 | 34 | 3 | 2 | 53 | |||
Taichung | 65 | 37 | 36 | 3 | 4 | 51 | |||
Tainan | 57 | 22 | 37 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 49 | ||
Kaohsiung | 66 | 37 | 38 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 48 | ||
Taiwan Province | |||||||||
Keelung | 31 | 19 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 19 | |||
Yilan County | 34 | 16 | 18 | 1 | 3 | 36 | |||
Hsinchu | 34 | 20 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 36 | |||
Hsinchu County | 36 | 27 | 7 | 1 | 49 | ||||
Miaoli County | 38 | 18 | 10 | 2 | 42 | ||||
Changhua County | 54 | 29 | 26 | 1 | 32 | ||||
Nantou County | 37 | 20 | 13 | 29 | |||||
Yunlin County | 43 | 10 | 20 | 1 | 2 | 42 | |||
Chiayi | 23 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 24 | |||
Chiayi County | 37 | 9 | 22 | 30 | |||||
Hualien County | 33 | 33 | 9 | 2 | 25 | ||||
Taitung County | 30 | 29 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 30 | |||
Pingtung County | 55 | 32 | 30 | 1 | 43 | ||||
Penghu County | 19 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 30 | ||||
Fujian Province | Kinmen County | 19 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 22 | |||
Lienchiang County | 9 | 10 | 3 | ||||||
Total | 912 | 497 | 407 | 10 | 26 | 10 | 41 | 777 |
Opinion polls
edit2018 Municipal Councillor & County Councillor Nationwide Polls | ||||||
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Poll source | Date of completion | Kuomintang | Democratic Progressive Party | Others | Independent | Lead |
Taiwan Think Tank | April 1, 2018 | 28.5% | 33.6% | - | 4.9% | 5.1% |
Taiwan Brain Trust | July 28, 2018 | 29.9% | 22.9% | - | 3.6% | 7% |
New Power Party | September 5, 2018 | 25.2% | 23.6% | 12.1% | - | 1.6% |
Taipei | ||||||
China Times | June 4, 2018 | 39.4% | 16.6% | - | - | 22.8% |
Trends | July 16, 2018 | 27.1% | 14.1% | 7.1% | 3.9% | 13% |
CM Media Archived 2017-02-20 at the Wayback Machine | July 26, 2018 | 35% | 16.2% | 12.7% | - | 18.8% |
Formosa | October 12, 2018 | 28.5% | 16.3% | 5.6% | - | 12.2% |
Taichung | ||||||
CM Media | July 31, 2018 | 27.7% | 21.3% | 16% | - | 6.4% |
Kaohsiung | ||||||
CM Media | September 18, 2018 | 27.5% | 24.1% | 17.3% | - | 3.4% |
Hsinchu City | ||||||
Taiwan Green Party | August 24, 2018 | 27.3% | 12.2% | 10.2% | - | 15.1% |
Changhua County | ||||||
CM Media | October 16, 2018 | 32.5% | 17.8% | 14.9% | - | 14.7% |
Chiayi City | ||||||
CM Media | September 5, 2018 | 25% | 24.7% | 16.8% | - | 0.3% |
Yilan County | ||||||
CM Media | September 26, 2018 | 27% | 20.5% | 15.3% | - | 7.5% |
Results
editProvince | County | Members | KMT | DPP | TSU | PFP | NP | New Power Party | IND/Other |
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Special municipality | |||||||||
Taipei | 63 | 29 | 19 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | ||
New Taipei | 66 | 33 | 25 | 8 | |||||
Taoyuan | 63 | 32 | 18 | 1 | 12 | ||||
Taichung | 65 | 32 | 25 | 1 | 7 | ||||
Tainan | 57 | 16 | 25 | 1 | 1 | 14 | |||
Kaohsiung | 66 | 33 | 25 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||
County and Non-Municipal | |||||||||
Keelung | 31 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 6 | |||
Yilan County | 34 | 13 | 8 | 1 | 12 | ||||
Hsinchu | 34 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 10 | ||||
Hsinchu County | 36 | 19 | 2 | 1 | 14 | ||||
Miaoli County | 38 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 18 | ||||
Changhua County | 54 | 28 | 12 | 1 | 13 | ||||
Nantou County | 37 | 17 | 8 | 12 | |||||
Yunlin County | 43 | 7 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 22 | |||
Chiayi | 23 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 13 | |||
Chiayi County | 37 | 9 | 17 | 11 | |||||
Hualien County | 33 | 18 | 3 | 12 | |||||
Taitung County | 30 | 21 | 1 | 1 | 7 | ||||
Pingtung County | 55 | 17 | 15 | 1 | 22 | ||||
Penghu County | 19 | 4 | 3 | 12 | |||||
Offshore | Kinmen County | 19 | 9 | 10 | |||||
Lienchiang County | 9 | 7 | 2 | ||||||
Total | 912 | 394 | 238 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 16 | 249 |
Township/city mayor elections
editNominations
editProvince | County | Members | Kuomintang | Democratic Progressive Party | Free Taiwan Party | Others | Independent | |
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Special municipality (Mountain indigenous District) | ||||||||
Taiwan Province | Yilan County | 12 | 11 | 10 | 11 | |||
Hsinchu County | 13 | 14 | 1 | 22 | ||||
Miaoli County | 18 | 13 | 2 | 29 | ||||
Changhua County | 26 | 19 | 19 | 44 | ||||
Nantou County | 13 | 13 | 6 | 19 | ||||
Yunlin County | 20 | 5 | 18 | 32 | ||||
Chiayi County | 18 | 2 | 14 | 19 | ||||
Pingtung County | 33 | 12 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 56 | ||
Taitung County | 16 | 13 | 3 | 27 | ||||
Hualien County | 13 | 17 | 2 | 13 | ||||
Penghu County | 6 | 3 | 2 | 7 | ||||
Fujian Province | Kinmen County | 6 | 8 | 1 | 10 | |||
Lienchiang County | 4 | 5 | ||||||
New Taipei City(Wulai District) | 1 | 4 | ||||||
Taoyuan(Fuxing District) | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||
Taichung(Heping District) | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||
Kaohsiung(Maolin District, Taoyuan District, Namasia District) |
3 | 2 | 7 | |||||
Total | 204 | 139 | 97 | 1 | 2 | 304 | ||
Note:
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Results
editProvince | County | Members | Kuomintang | Democratic Progressive Party | Others | Independent | ||
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Special municipality (Mountain indigenous District) | ||||||||
Taiwan Province | Yilan County | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | |||
Hsinchu County | 13 | 10 | 0 | 3 | ||||
Miaoli County | 18 | 10 | 8 | |||||
Changhua County | 26 | 9 | 7 | 10 | ||||
Nantou County | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | ||||
Yunlin County | 20 | 1 | 9 | 10 | ||||
Chiayi County | 18 | 0 | 7 | 11 | ||||
Pingtung County | 33 | 8 | 7 | 18 | ||||
Taitung County | 16 | 9 | 1 | 6 | ||||
Hualien County | 13 | 12 | 1 | |||||
Penghu County | 6 | 2 | 4 | |||||
Fujian Province | Kinmen County | 6 | 3 | 3 | ||||
Lienchiang County | 4 | 4 | ||||||
New Taipei City(Wulai District) | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Taoyuan(Fuxing District) | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Taichung(Heping District) | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Kaohsiung(Maolin District, Taoyuan District, Namasia District) |
3 | 2 | 1 | |||||
Total | 204 | 83 | 40 | 2 | 79 | |||
Note:
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Township/city council elections
editNominations
editProvince | County | Members | Kuomintang | Democratic Progressive Party | Labor Party | Trees Party | People's First Party | New Power Party | Others | Independent |
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Special municipality (Mountain indigenous District) | ||||||||||
Taiwan Province | Yilan County | 131 | 49 | 37 | 2 | 143 | ||||
Hsinchu County | 142 | 68 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 187 | |||
Miaoli County | 193 | 17 | 6 | 295 | ||||||
Changhua County | 317 | 47 | 85 | 385 | ||||||
Nantou County | 163 | 43 | 5 | 208 | ||||||
Yunlin County | 228 | 15 | 45 | 293 | ||||||
Chiayi County | 193 | 19 | 6 | 247 | ||||||
Pingtung County | 334 | 55 | 53 | 2 | 420 | |||||
Taitung County | 136 | 59 | 6 | 2 | 169 | |||||
Hualien County | 142 | 92 | 8 | 1 | 143 | |||||
Penghu County | 51 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 75 | |||||
Fujian Province | Kinmen County | 47 | 20 | 4 | 41 | |||||
Lienchiang County | 22 | 20 | 13 | |||||||
New Taipei City(Wulai District) | 7 | 13 | ||||||||
Taoyuan(Fuxing District) | 11 | 4 | 21 | |||||||
Taichung(Heping District) | 11 | 6 | 12 | |||||||
Kaohsiung(Maolin District, Taoyuan District, Namasia District) |
21 | 5 | 37 | |||||||
Total | 2,149 | 523 | 259 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 2,702 | |
註:
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Results
editProvince | County | Members | Kuomintang | Democratic Progressive Party | Others | Independent | ||||
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Special municipality (Mountain indigenous District) | ||||||||||
Taiwan Province | Yilan County | 131 | 37 | 26 | 68 | |||||
Hsinchu County | 142 | 51 | 1 | 1 | 89 | |||||
Miaoli County | 193 | 11 | 2 | 180 | ||||||
Changhua County | 317 | 38 | 39 | 240 | ||||||
Nantou County | 163 | 34 | 2 | 127 | ||||||
Yunlin County | 228 | 13 | 28 | 187 | ||||||
Chiayi County | 193 | 11 | 6 | 176 | ||||||
Pingtung County | 334 | 43 | 39 | 252 | ||||||
Taitung County | 136 | 42 | 3 | 91 | ||||||
Hualien County | 142 | 65 | 4 | 1 | 73 | |||||
Penghu County | 51 | 3 | 1 | 47 | ||||||
Fujian Province | Kinmen County | 47 | 17 | 2 | 28 | |||||
Lienchiang County | 21 | 13 | 8 | |||||||
New Taipei City(Wulai District) | 7 | 7 | ||||||||
Taoyuan(Fuxing District) | 11 | 4 | 7 | |||||||
Taichung(Heping District) | 11 | 5 | 6 | |||||||
Kaohsiung(Maolin District, Taoyuan District, Namasia District) |
21 | 3 | 18 | |||||||
Total | 2,149 | 390 | 151 | 4 | 1,604 | |||||
註:
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Village chief elections
editNominations
editSpecial municipality | Members | Kuomintang | Democratic Progressive Party | People First Party | TSU | Chinese Unification Promotion Party | People's Democratic Party | New Power Party | Green Party Taiwan | Others | Independent | |
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Province | County | |||||||||||
Taipei | 456 | 282 | 63 | 3 | 13 | 576 | ||||||
New Taipei | 1,032 | 300 | 41 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 1,491 | ||||
Taoyuan | 504 | 132 | 3 | 7 | 844 | |||||||
Taichung | 625 | 139 | 79 | 4 | 1,023 | |||||||
Tainan | 649 | 64 | 115 | 1,217 | ||||||||
Kaohsiung | 891 | 173 | 218 | 1 | 1 | 1,320 | ||||||
Taiwan Province | Keelung City | 157 | 33 | 4 | 1 | 258 | ||||||
Yilan County | 233 | 38 | 8 | 1 | 401 | |||||||
Hsinchu County | 192 | 77 | 1 | 318 | ||||||||
Hsinchu City | 122 | 20 | 1 | 209 | ||||||||
Miaoli County | 275 | 11 | 1 | 509 | ||||||||
Changhua County | 589 | 38 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 1,067 | ||||||
Nantou County | 262 | 55 | 4 | 469 | ||||||||
Yunlin County | 391 | 11 | 1 | 739 | ||||||||
Chiayi County | 357 | 8 | 1 | 631 | ||||||||
Chiayi City | 84 | 20 | 2 | 128 | ||||||||
Pingtung County | 463 | 54 | 6 | 1 | 815 | |||||||
Taitung County | 147 | 70 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 251 | |||||
Hualien County | 176 | 138 | 2 | 248 | ||||||||
Penghu County | 96 | 17 | 2 | 173 | ||||||||
Fujian Province | Kinmen County | 37 | 17 | 1 | 68 | |||||||
Lienchiang County | 22 | 23 | 10 | |||||||||
Total | 7,760 | 1,720 | 563 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 40 | 12,768 |
Results
editSpecial municipality | Members | Kuomintang | Democratic Progressive Party | Chinese Unification Promotion Party | People First Party | New Power Party | People's Democratic Front | Others | Independent | |
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Province | County | |||||||||
Taipei | 456 | 216 | 35 | 1 | 204 | |||||
New Taipei | 1029 | 234 | 27 | 1 | 1 | 766 | ||||
Taoyuan | 504 | 90 | 2 | 2 | 410 | |||||
Taichung | 624 | 107 | 18 | 499 | ||||||
Tainan | 649 | 42 | 53 | 554 | ||||||
Kaohsiung | 887 | 123 | 130 | 634 | ||||||
Taiwan Province | Keelung City | 157 | 21 | 2 | 134 | |||||
Yilan County | 233 | 23 | 5 | 205 | ||||||
Hsinchu County | 192 | 42 | 150 | |||||||
Hsinchu City | 121 | 14 | 107 | |||||||
Miaoli County | 274 | 4 | 1 | 269 | ||||||
Changhua County | 589 | 28 | 6 | 555 | ||||||
Nantou County | 262 | 36 | 1 | 225 | ||||||
Yunlin County | 390 | 5 | 385 | |||||||
Chiayi County | 356 | 6 | 350 | |||||||
Chiayi City | 84 | 16 | 1 | 67 | ||||||
Pingtung County | 461 | 32 | 3 | 426 | ||||||
Taitung County | 147 | 42 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 102 | ||||
Hualien County | 175 | 103 | 1 | 71 | ||||||
Penghu County | 95 | 10 | 85 | |||||||
Fujian Province | Kinmen County | 37 | 6 | 31 | ||||||
Lienchiang County | 22 | 20 | 2 | |||||||
Total | 7,760 | 1,120 | 285 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6,231 |
Aftermath
editPresident Tsai Ing-wen announced her resignation as chairperson for the Democratic Progressive Party; Premier William Lai also unilaterally announced his resignation on Facebook [1]; his resignation was approved in 2019. The DPP secretary general Hung Yao-fu and Secretary-General to the President Chen Chu also announced their resignations. Following the elections, the Taiwanese foreign minister claimed that China had meddled in the elections.[7]
Defector and self-proclaimed former spy William Wang claimed that the government of China had successfully supported candidates in the 2018 Taiwanese local elections.[8]
See also
editNotes
edit- ^ Figures in this infobox are for magistrate/mayor elections unless otherwise noted. Special municipalities are counted with counties/cities despite being counted separately in official statistics
- 912 councillors
- 204 township/city mayors and indigenous district chief administrators
- 2,149 township/city council representatives
- 7,760 village chiefs
- ^ Special municipalities; turnout for counties and cities was 68.87%.
- ^ Special municipalities; vote count for counties and cities was 1,919,531.
- ^ Special municipalities; percentage for counties and cities was 48.80%.
- ^ Special municipalities; vote count for counties and cities was 1,497,455.
- ^ Special municipalities; percentage for counties and cities was 38.07%.
- ^ Bold figures indicate majority
- ^ Tied with PFP
References
edit- ^ "中選會選舉資料庫網站". cec.gov.tw (in Chinese). Retrieved 16 January 2020.
- ^ Liu, Lee-jung; Lin, Ko (16 January 2018). "Local elections to be held in November". Central News Agency. Retrieved 17 January 2018.
- ^ Yang, Sophia (16 January 2018). "Taiwan to host nine-in-one elections on Nov. 24". Taiwan News. Retrieved 17 January 2018.
- ^ "Taiwan Local Elections of 2014 - Central Election Commission". cec.gov.tw. Archived from the original on 2014-11-19. Retrieved 2019-01-23.
- ^ Chen, Yu-fu; Hetherington, William (27 August 2018). "Election registrations open today". Taipei Times. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
- ^ 中選會資料庫網站,中央選舉委員會 (in Traditional Chinese). Central Election Commission.
- ^ Brown, Adrian. "China accused of political meddling after Taiwan local elections". www.aljazeera.com. Al Jazeera. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
- ^ "Chinese spy confirms China's involvement in Taiwan 2020 election". Taiwan News. 23 November 2019. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
Wang said that Beijing successfully backed several pro-China politicians, who won seats in the 2018 local elections.