2009 Taiwanese local elections
Introduction 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'' (). 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.
Election summaries === Magistrate and mayor elections ===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. 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. 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. 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. 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%.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. While in Changhua County and Nantou County, the KMT incumbent Magistrates both gained just over 50% of the votes, to secure their second terms. In Yunlin County, the DPP incumbent Magistrate gained nearly twice the number of votes as her opposition KMT candidate to secure her second term.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. The KMT incumbent Mayor of Chiayi City won her second term by an unexpectedly narrow margin of 8000 votes. 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 ===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%.=== Township Chiefs ===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%.
Results  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  25px 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  25px Taiwan Solidarity Union －  －  －  27,286  0.62%  3  －  －  －  25px 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  25px Green Party －  －  －  843  0.02%  0  －  －  －  Taiwan Nationalist Party －  －  －  208  0.00%  0  －  －  －  25px 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 === Taiwanese county magistrates and city mayoral elections, 2009 County/City  Winning Candidate  Party  Votes  Percentage Changhua County Cho Po-yuan 25px Kuomintang348,34154.89% Chiayi City Huang Min-hui 25px Kuomintang69,96252.20% Chiayi County Helen Chang  Democratic Progressive Party177,33355.92% Hsinchu City Hsu Ming-tsai 25px Kuomintang92,66755.63% Hsinchu County Chiu Ching-chun 25px Kuomintang97,15138.49% Hualien County Fu Kun-chi  25px Independent85,53256.37% Keelung City Chang Tong-rong 25px Kuomintang86,00155.11% Kinmen County Li Wo-shi 25px Kuomintang14,26937.28% Lienchiang County Yang Sui-sheng 25px Kuomintang3,13557.19% Miaoli County Liu Cheng-hung 25px Kuomintang181,25663.79% Nantou County Lee Chao-ching 25px Kuomintang136,95150.87% Penghu County Wang Chien-fa 25px Kuomintang22,66449.37% Pingtung County Tsao Chi-hung   Democratic Progressive Party270,40259.33% Taitung County Justin Huang 25px Kuomintang56,35452.59% Taoyuan County John Wu 25px Kuomintang396,23752.22% Yilan County Lin Tsung-hsien   Democratic Progressive Party133,39454.26% Yunlin County Su Chih-fen   Democratic Progressive Party229,95865.37%=== Councillor elections === Taiwanese county and city councilmen elections, 2009 County/City  No. of seats won by each party 23px KMT  DPP 23px TSU 23px PFP Labor 25px Green 25px TNP 25px 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 － － － － － 3Keelung 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 === Taiwanese township chiefs elections, 2009 County  No. of posts won by each party 23px KMT   DPP NSP CRP 25px 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 * Elections in Taiwan
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References
External links *  The Elections for Public Offices in Taiwan, Elections Research Center, National Chengchi University.