1997–98 Taiwanese local elections

1997 11 29 y1998 12 5 y Taiwan 1997–98 Taiwanese local elections 1994 1994 Taiwanese local elections 2001–02 Taiwanese local elections 2001–02 Democratic Progressive Party Kuomintang Mayors/Magistrates Lee Teng-hui Lin Yi-hsiung 18 July 1998 27 January 1988 parliamentary 13 9 Change 6 7 All 25 mayors/magistrates of special municipalities, cities, counties Local elections of Taiwan were held in 1997 and 1998 to elect magistrates of counties and mayors of cities on 29 November 1997, and mayors and councillors of special municipalities on 5 December 1998. Opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won in the 1997 election, controlling majority of mayors/magistrates across the country and winning more popular votes than the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) for the first time.1997年縣市長選舉觀察──變遷中的地方政治 http://www.wufi.org.tw/219/ 2023-04-08 台灣獨立建國聯盟 en-US 2014-02-23 https://web.archive.org/web/20140223050659/http://www.wufi.org.tw/219/ dead While the two polls were seen as confidence votes of President Lee Teng-hui, they marked the beginning of the historic peaceful transition of power which would occur in 2000. Counties and cities thumb|Election results for counties and cities The DPP successfully flipped seven counties and cities, Keelung City, Hsinchu City, Taichung City, Taichung County, Tainan City, Taoyuan County, and Pingtung County, but were defeated by the Kuomintang in Penghu County.近5屆縣市長黨籍 http://issue.udn.com/2005vote/sta/vphoto3.htm dead https://web.archive.org/web/20101114020455/http://issue.udn.com/2005vote/sta/vphoto3.htm 2010-11-14 UDN In Nantou County, the Kuomintang was defeated by an independent candidate. Turnout of the election is 65.92%, with 7,784,908 voting out of 11,809,277 registered electorates. +Magistrate of TaipeiPartyCandidateVotes% Democratic Progressive PartySu Tseng-chang571,65840.67% KuomintangHsieh Shen-shan543,51638.67% Independent politicianLin Chih-chia154,59011.00% Independent politicianLiao Hsueh-kuang70,6195.02% New Party (Taiwan)Yang Tai-shun32,9022.34% Independent politicianStella Chou32,3732.30% +Mayor of Keelung CityPartyCandidateVotes% Democratic Progressive PartyLee Chin-yung73,39842.75% KuomintangLiu Wen-hsiung65,17637.97% Independent politicianHsu Tsai-li33,09919.28% +Magistrate of Yilan CountyPartyCandidateVotes% Democratic Progressive PartyLiu Shou-cheng122,11453.83% KuomintangLiao Feng-teh104,74446.17% +Magistrate of Taoyuan CountyPartyCandidateVotes% Democratic Progressive PartyAnnette Lu375,50056.20% KuomintangChen Ken-te286,99342.96%Social Reform PartyHsu Lien-te5,6190.84% +Magistrate of Hsinchu CountyPartyCandidateVotes% Democratic Progressive PartyLin Kuang-hua70,87936.12% KuomintangCheng Yung-chin64,55132.89% Independent politicianChiu Ching-chun59,39330.26% Independent politicianHsu Neng-an1,4240.73% +Mayor of Hsinchu CityPartyCandidateVotes% Democratic Progressive PartyJames Tsai81,32856.11% KuomintangLin Chih-cheng62,01742.79% Independent politicianWang Shao-chuan1,5931.10% +Magistrate of Miaoli CountyPartyCandidateVotes% Independent politicianFu Hsueh-peng153,52854.80% KuomintangHo Chih-hui99,10935.37% New Party (Taiwan)Huang Ta-yeh15,8715.66% Democratic Progressive PartyHsu Chin-jung11,6784.17% +Magistrate of Taichung CountyPartyCandidateVotes% Democratic Progressive PartyLiao Yung-lai223,22237.60% KuomintangKuo Jung-cheng173,66729.26% KuomintangShyu Jong-shyong144,42724.33% Independent politicianLiu Chuan-chung35,5335.99% Independent politicianChen Chin-lung10,8041.82% Taiwan Independence PartyChien Wen-nan5,9501.00% +Mayor of Taichung CityPartyCandidateVotes% Democratic Progressive PartyChang Wen-ying179,46149.57% KuomintangHung Chao-nan149,43841.28% New Party (Taiwan)Sung Ai-ke26,5157.32% Taiwan Independence PartyCheng Pang-chen6,6221.83% +Magistrate of Changhua CountyPartyCandidateVotes% KuomintangJuan Kang-meng290,33549.56% Democratic Progressive PartyWong Chin-chu285,05848.66% Independent politicianChang Jung-chang10,4431.78% +Magistrate of Nantou CountyPartyCandidateVotes% Independent politicianPeng Pai-hsien78,69031.61% Democratic Progressive PartyLin Tsung-nan76,68930.80% KuomintangHsu Hui-yu74,96630.11% New Party (Taiwan)Chen Cheng-sheng18,0667.26% Independent politicianWu Ching-chiang5590.22% +Magistrate of Yunlin CountyPartyCandidateVotes%KuomintangSu Wen-hsiung125,37634.93% Independent politicianChang Jung-wei122,16634.04% Democratic Progressive PartyLiao Ta-lin104,49929.11% Independent politicianOu Ming-shien6,8821.92% +Magistrate of Chiayi CountyPartyCandidateVotes%KuomintangLee Ya-ching136,16153.26% Democratic Progressive PartyHo Chia-jong119,49946.74% +Mayor of Chiayi CityPartyCandidateVotes% Independent politicianChang Po-ya58,54450.23% KuomintangChiang Yi-hsiung49,55142.52% Democratic Progressive PartyTsai Hung-chang6,3505.45% Taiwan Independence PartyTsang Ting-sheng2,1031.80% +Magistrate of Tainan CountyPartyCandidateVotes% Democratic Progressive PartyMark Chen328,64165.73% KuomintangHung Yu-chin171,35734.27% +Mayor of Tainan CityPartyCandidateVotes% Democratic Progressive PartyGeorge Chang116,14535.75% KuomintangLin Nan-sheng68,12420.97% Independent politicianHsu Tain-tsair64,22819.77% KuomintangChen Jung-cheng57,85417.81% Independent politicianLin Shou-hung9,0972.80% New Party (Taiwan)Kao Chia-chun4,7371.46% Independent politicianFang Chin-hai4,6991.45% +Magistrate of Kaohsiung CountyPartyCandidateVotes% Democratic Progressive PartyYu Cheng-hsien271,98951.74% KuomintangHuang Hung-tu234,96044.69% Independent politicianCheng Te-hui10,5752.01% Independent politicianLin Ching-yuan8,2011.56% +Magistrate of Pingtung CountyPartyCandidateVotes% Democratic Progressive PartySu Jia-chyuan227,50655.42% KuomintangTseng Yung-chuan170,15441.45% Independent politicianLee Ching-wen12,8673.13% +Magistrate of Taitung CountyPartyCandidateVotes% KuomintangChen Chien-nien48,36547.64% Independent politicianHsu Ching-yuan47,34046.63% Democratic Progressive PartyHuang Chao-hui5,8185.73% +Magistrate of Hualien CountyPartyCandidateVotes% KuomintangWang Ching-feng72,45656.76% Democratic Progressive PartyYou Ying-lung55,19443.24% +Magistrate of Penghu CountyPartyCandidateVotes% KuomintangLai Feng-wei20,94657.53% Democratic Progressive PartyHsu Pi-long15,19442.47% Special municipalities thumb|Election results for special municipalities Elections for mayors and councillors of special municipalities Taipei and Kaohsiung were held on 5 December 1998. The nail-biting election resulted in both incumbents defeated with a narrow margin, including an unexpected victory for the DPP in Kaohsiung. Taipei link=https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1998_ROC-Taipei.png|thumb|Taipei mayoral election result by districts#6699FF Districts led by Ma Ying-jeou#B1FB17 Districts led by Chen Shui-bian Chen Shui-bian of the DPP seek a second four-year term with a high popularity of 80%, while the KMT nominated Ma Ying-jeou, ex-Minister of Justice who earlier declined to run in the mayoral election. Ma eventually beat Chen by around 0.6% of votes. Analysts believed tactical voting by supporters of New Party contributed to the KMT's win,Let Someone Else Try https://taiwantoday.tw/Politics/Taiwan-Review/4244/Let-Someone-Else-Try 9 December 2025 Taiwan Review 1 February 1999小笠原欣幸 臺灣總統選舉--臺灣認同的成長與爭奪 大家出版 2021 978-986-5562-10-6 152–155 in addition to the discontent with Chen's aggressive policies. 1998 Taipei mayoral election Kuomintang Ma Ying-jeou 766377 Democratic Progressive Party Chen Shui-bian 688072 New Party Wang Chien-shien 44452 12734 1868860 Kuomintang 589907 Democratic Progressive Party 455613 New Party 273195 New Nation Alliance 27282 36051 1864314 22274 Independents Green Party Taiwan Taiwan Independence Party 9633 923 Chinese Woman's Party 23 19 9 0 0 0 0 1 92966 1998 Taipei City Council election +3 +4 -2 -5 Kaohsiung link=https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1998_Kaohsiung_Mayoral_Election.png|thumb|Kaohsiung mayoral election result by districts#6699FF Districts led by Wu Den-yih#B1FB17 Districts led by Frank Hsieh Following the defeat in vice-presidential election, Frank Hsieh of the DPP started considering running in Kaohsiung mayoral election. In 1997, Chen Che-nan, Hsieh's party colleague decided not to run against Hsieh in the party primary for the Kaohsiung poll, reportedly after an intervention by Taipei Mayor Chen who later promoted him as secretary-general of Taipei Government.郭 瓊俐 《打鐵街少年——謝長廷的生命故事》 October 2005 布克文化出版 986-81139-7-0 First Taipei zh-tw On the other hand, incumbent Wu Den-yih from the KMT faced small-scale rebellion from local party branch after former Kaohsiung mayor Wang Yu-yun criticised Wu for being ungrateful. 1998-07-01 王玉雲批吳敦義過河拆橋 https://news.cts.com.tw/cts/general/199807/199807010017220.html live https://web.archive.org/web/20210814055204/https://news.cts.com.tw/cts/general/199807/199807010017220.html 2021-08-14 2021-08-14 CTS News zh-tw In the run-up of the election, an ex-secretary of Wu published a recording tape, claiming Wu had an affairs with a reporter. Despite found to be fake after the election, the incident nevertheless damaged Wu's popularity. During the campaign, Wu attacked Hsieh as being "inhumane" after he agreed to act as a defence attorney for the murderer of Pai Hsiao-yen, hoping to persuade his surrender. The personal attack was said to have further pushed for Hsieh's victory. The Hsieh–Wu contest was described as “a mud-slinging match between two unsightly, naked men.”Gloves off in fight over Taiwan's future https://www.scmp.com/article/264613/gloves-fight-over-taiwans-future 9 December 2025 South China Morning Post 4 December 19981998 Kaohsiung mayoral election Democratic Progressive Party Frank Hsieh 387797 Kuomintang Wu Den-yih 383232 Independent Cheng Te-yao 18699 New Party Wu Chien-kuo 6457 11811 1004872 1998 Kaohsiung City Council election Kuomintang 357163 Democratic Progressive Party 211954 New Party 30363 Taiwan Independence Party 14707 15996 1002480 Independents 176308 25 9 0 1 9 +2 -2 -1 +1 References Category:1997 elections in Asia Category:1998 elections in Asia