2009 Taiwanese local elections

none 2009 Taiwanese local elections Taiwan parliamentary no 2005–06 Taiwanese local elections 2006 2009 12 05 y中選會選舉資料庫網站 https://db.cec.gov.tw cec.gov.tw 16 January 2020 zh 2010 Taiwanese local elections 2010 17 magistrates/mayors and others592 councillors 211 township/city mayorsFigures in this infobox are for magistrate/mayor elections unless otherwise noted 7,051,039 63.34% 2.87 pp percentage pointsCompared to the turnout of the 23 magistrate/mayor elections of 2005 Ma Ying-jeou election infobox.jpg Ma Ying-jeou Kuomintang 17 October 2009 11 seats, 49.80% 12 1 2,094,518 47.88% 1.93 pp percentage points Tsai Ing-wen election infobox 2.jpg Tsai Ing-wen Democratic Progressive Party 20 May 2008 3 seats, 38.19% 4 1 1,982,914 45.32% 7.13 pp percentage points Councillors 289 128 Township/city mayors 121 34 Taiwan local elections map 2009–10.svg 200px 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 (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.ELECTIONS: ANALYSIS: KMT’s lackluster performance seen as warning to Ma, Taipei Times, 6 December 2009. 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.KMT loses luster in local elections, Taiwan Today, 7 December 2009. 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.Central Election Commission Election Database. zh 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 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 Taiwanese county magistrates and city mayoral elections, 2009 County/City Winning candidate Party Votes Percentage Changhua County Cho Po-yuan Kuomintang348,34154.89% Chiayi City Huang Min-hui Kuomintang69,96252.20% Chiayi County Helen Chang Democratic Progressive Party177,33355.92% Hsinchu City Hsu Ming-tsai Kuomintang92,66755.63% Hsinchu County Chiu Ching-chun Kuomintang97,15138.49% Hualien County Fu Kun-chi IndependentFu Kun-chi was a member of Kuomintang. He ran as independent after lost the primary elections. He later expelled from the party.85,53256.37% Keelung City Chang Tong-rong Kuomintang86,00155.11% Kinmen County Li Wo-shi Kuomintang14,26937.28% Lienchiang County Yang Sui-sheng Kuomintang3,13557.19% Miaoli County Liu Cheng-hung Kuomintang181,25663.79% Nantou County Lee Chao-ching Kuomintang136,95150.87% Penghu County Wang Chien-fa Kuomintang22,66449.37% Pingtung County Tsao Chi-hung Democratic Progressive Party270,40259.33% Taitung County Justin Huang Kuomintang56,35452.59% Taoyuan County John Wu 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 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 － － － － － 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 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 Elections in Taiwan Notes References External links The Elections for Public Offices in Taiwan, Elections Research Center, National Chengchi University. 2009 Category:2009 elections in Taiwan Category:December 2009 in Taiwan