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2018 Taipei mayoral election
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Turnout65.95% (Decrease4.51 pp)
 
Candidate Ko Wen-je Ting Shou-chung [zh] Pasuya Yao
Party Independent Kuomintang Democratic Progressive
Popular vote 580,663 577,096 244,342
Percentage 41.1% 40.8% 17.3%
Grey indicates districts won by Ko. Blue indicates those won by Ting.
Mayor before election

Ko Wen-je
Independent

Elected Mayor

Ko Wen-je
Independent

The 2018 Taipei mayoral election was held on 24 November alongside other local elections. Incumbent mayor Ko Wen-je, an independent, was eligible to run for a second term, and he ran against Kuomintang's Ting Shou-chung [zh] and the Democratic Progressive Party's Pasuya Yao. Ko was reelected, defeating Ting by only 3567 votes, and was sworn in on 25 December.

Background

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The Mayor of Taipei is the head of its city government. Since becoming a special municipality in 1994, the mayor has been directly elected by citizens, serves a four-year term, and can be reelected once. As of 2018, 4 mayors have been elected, serving 7 terms total.[1][2]

Primaries

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Registration for candidacies were open from 27 to 31 August. Each candidate had to be 30 years of age, lived in Taipei for at least 4 months, and paid 2 million New Taiwan dollars as deposit. The finalized list of candidates was released on 9 November and had five names.[3][4][5]

Ko Wen-je

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Ko announced his intentions to run for a second term in a interview with NewTalk news on 22 December 2016. He officially registered his candidacy on 30 August.[6]

Kuomintang

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Four Kuomintang members announced intentions to run: former representative Ting Shou-chung [zh], former deputy minister of the Mainland Affairs Council Chang Hsiao-ping [zh], former representative Sun Ta-chien [zh], and Taipei councilor Chang Hsien-yao. Ting won the primaries with a polling average of 47.634%.[7]

Ting's family was from Zhejiang and is a second-generation Waishengren. He has served seven terms as representative since 1990. He ran on restoring elderly pensions cancelled by Ko and expanding the Taipei Metro by completing the Circular line.[8][9][10] On gay rights issues, he supported the 2018 referendum and opposes same-sex marriage.[11]

2018 Kuomintang Taipei Mayoral primaries[12]
Candidate TVBS Apollo Survey [zh] United Daily News Polling average
Ting Shou-chung [zh] 48.395% 46.778% 47.741% 47.634%
Sun Ta-chien [zh] 17.891% 18.845% 17.878% 18.205%
Chang Hsien-yao 17.073% 17.909% 16.723% 17.235%
Chang Hsiao-ping [zh] 16.651% 16.468% 17.658% 16.926%

Democratic Progressive Party

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In the last election, the Democratic Progressive Party had endorsed Ko alongside other pan-green parties. After taking office, Ko criticized several DPP policies, leading to them running their own candidate instead.[3]

Two DPP members announced intentions to run: representative for Taipei's second constituency Pasuya Yao, and former vice president Annette Lu. Su Huan-chih, former Mayor of Tainan, having become dissatisfied with Tsai Ing-wen's policies, left the party and ran as an independent, but later dropped out and ran for reelection instead. On 30 May, the party decided to nominate Yao as their candidate for mayor.[3]

Results

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Ballots took 10 hours and 35 minutes to count, with the process being completed and results announced at 2:36 AM of the next day. Ko received 580,820, a plurality, and was reelected.[13][14] Ting challenged the results and demanded the Taipei district court for a recount, which happened from 3 to 10 December. Vote totals were amended, with Ko going down 157 votes to 580,663, and Ting going down 470 to 577,096. With a margin of only 3567 votes (0.3%), the election was one of the closest in Taiwanese history.[15][16]

CandidatePartyVotes%
Ko Wen-jeIndependent580,66341.07
Ting Shou-chung [zh]Kuomintang577,09640.82
Pasuya YaoDemocratic Progressive244,34217.28
Lee Hsi-kun [zh]Independent6,1580.44
Wu E-yang [zh]Independent5,6110.40
Total1,413,870100.00
Valid votes1,413,87099.06
Invalid/blank votes13,3550.94
Total votes1,427,225100.00
Registered voters/turnout2,164,15565.95

Results by district

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District Ko Wen-je Ting Shou-chung Pasuya Yao Lee Hsi-kun Wu E-yang Total votes
Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes %
Songshan 42,315 39.62 46,353 43.40 17,285 16.18 417 0.39 425 0.39 106,795
Xinyi 47,620 38.94 53,812 44.00 19,849 16.23 509 0.41 500 0.40 122,290
Daan 60,940 38.53 72,311 45.72 23,646 14.95 658 0.41 582 0.36 158,137
Zhongshan 50,582 41.54 46,732 38.38 23,476 19.28 490 0.40 476 0.39 121,756
Zhongzheng 33,748 41.65 33,896 41.83 12,631 15.58 377 0.46 372 0.45 81,024
Datong 31,660 45.29 20,745 29.67 16,895 24.16 339 0.48 266 0.38 69,905
Wanhua 43,379 41.63 38,520 36.97 21,397 20.53 465 0.44 426 0.40 104,187
Wenshan 56,463 38.82 68,549 47.13 18,989 13.05 710 0.48 710 0.48 145,421
Nangang 29,071 43.53 26,271 39.33 10,829 16.21 324 0.48 287 0.42 66,782
Neihu 65,589 43.70 61,546 41.01 21,747 14.49 639 0.42 549 0.36 150,070
Shilin 63,216 41.20 55,938 36.45 33,108 21.57 653 0.42 521 0.33 153,436
Beitou 56,080 41.82 52,423 39.10 24,490 18.26 577 0.43 497 0.37 134,067
Totals 580,663 41.06 577,096 40.81 244,342 17.28 6158 0.43 5611 0.39 1,413,870

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