2005–06 Taiwanese local elections

none 2005–06 Taiwanese local elections Taiwan parliamentary no 2001–02 Taiwanese local elections 2002 2005 12 03 2006 12 30 y2005-12-03: magistrates of counties and mayors of cities, councillors in county/city councils, and mayors of township/cities 2006-06-10: representatives in township/city councils and villages chiefs (all except in Taipei City) 2006-12-09: mayors and councillors of special municipalities 2006-12-30: village chiefs in Taipei City中選會選舉資料庫網站 https://db.cec.gov.tw cec.gov.tw 16 January 2020 zh 2009 Taiwanese local elections 2009 25 magistrates/mayors and others 997 councillors 319 township/city mayors 3,654 township/city council representatives 7,824 village chiefsFigures 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 16,793,623 66.13% 1.17 pp percentage points Ma Ying-jeou election infobox 2.jpg Ma Ying-jeou Kuomintang 27 July 2005 10 seats, 39.75% 15 5 5,594,163 51.18% 11.43 pp percentage points Su Tseng-chang election infobox.jpg Su Tseng-chang Democratic Progressive Party 21 July 2002 10 seats, 44.40% 7 3 4,629,576 42.35% 2.05 pp percentage points James Soong election infobox.jpg James Soong People First Party (Taiwan) 31 March 2000 2 seats, 1.88% 1 1 98,964 0.91% 0.97 pp percentage points Yok Mu-ming election infobox.jpg Yok Mu-ming New Party (Taiwan) 1 June 2003 1 seat, 7.93% 1 17,358 0.16% 7.77 pp percentage points Councillors 450 225 37 6 Township/city mayors 173 35 3 0 Taiwan local elections map 2005–06.svg 200px Elected magistrate/mayor party by seat Local elections were held in Taiwan on 3 December 2005 to elect magistrates of counties and mayors of cities, councillors in county/city councils and mayors of townships and cities, known as the three-in-one elections (三合一選舉), on 10 June 2006 to elect representatives in township/city councils and village chiefs (all except in Taipei City), on 9 December 2006 to elect mayors and councillors of special municipalities, and on 30 December 2006 to elect village chiefs in Taipei City.中央選舉委員會:::歷次選舉摘要::: https://web.cec.gov.tw/central/cms/elec_hist 中央選舉委員會 23 January 2020 zh-Hant-TW The largest opposition party Kuomintang (KMT) replaced the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) as the largest party at the local level. Kuomintang, together with other smaller parties in opposition, won control of 16 of the 23 counties and province-administered cities, most of the city and county councils, as well as most of the townships, towns and county-administered cities. The party chairman of DPP Su Tseng-chang resigned following his promise on the eve of the elections. Premier Frank Hsieh has also submitted his resignation to President Chen Shui-bian, but Chen has stated that he does not plan to accept Hsieh's resignation. Hsieh finally resigned in 2006 and Su replaced him. Chairman Ma Ying-jeou pledged to resign if the KMT failed to win at least 11 of the magistrate and mayor positions and the results were considered a sign of confidence of Ma's leadership reinforced his position in the bid for the presidency in the 2008 presidential election. Background The election was seen as a litmus test for the governing Democratic Progressive Party and the incumbent President Chen Shui-bian in the wake of damaging scandals affecting their image. It was also a test for the popularity of the leading opposition party Kuomintang, which Taipei mayor Ma Ying-jeou assumed the chairmanship of in August 2005. In the months preceding the election the DPP was plagued by a rising unemployment rate and a series of scandals involving the Kaohsiung Mass Rapid Transit system, stock speculations by two deputy presidential secretaries-general,Voting for Change https://taiwantoday.tw/print.php?unit=4&post=4207 Bruce Jacobs 14 September 2018 Taiwan Today 1 March 2006 live https://web.archive.org/web/20200903095305/https://taiwantoday.tw/print.php?unit=4&post=4207 Sep 3, 2020 Workers reach milestone on metro project https://taiwantoday.tw/print.php?unit=10,23,45,10&post=14242 14 September 2018 Taiwan Today 4 August 2006 live https://web.archive.org/web/20180914132455/https://taiwantoday.tw/print.php?unit=10,23,45,10&post=14242 14 September 2018 and "stock market vultures" profiting from insider information. DPP candidates in Taipei County and Ilan County were implicated in vote buying scandals. Publicized scandals concerning several KMT candidates failed to cause similar damage, in part because the DPP had built a reputation on its desire for reform, had the most to lose by the taint of corruption. February 2007 DPP planned to discontinue the current 18% pension interest rate for civil servants also backfired on the party. The pension reform plan had been put forward by the Chen administration as a way to stop a drain on the national treasury caused by paying a favored interest rate to long-term KMT officials who had worked relatively short stints in actual public government. Prominent beneficiaries of the high interest rate included KMT honor chairman Lien Chan and current Taichung mayor Jason Hu. The announcement of the reform plan cost the DPP a huge loss of support among civil service employees without the party winning offsetting increases in support from other segments of society. County/city elections On 3 December 2005, 76 candidates competed for the positions as mayors or magistrates of the 23 provincial cities and counties, 1,690 competed for membership in the city or county councils, and 1786 for the 319 leadership for townships and county-administered cities. Of the 23 county and city government positions, the Kuomintang won 14 posts, and its Pan-Blue Coalition allies the People First Party and the New Party each won one post. In contrast, the Democratic Progressive Party won only six posts. One post was won by an independent. Overall, the KMT garnered 50.96% of the vote, up from 35.06% in 2001. The DPP won 41.95% of the vote, down from 45.27% in 2001. The PFP and the Taiwan Solidarity Union each won about 1.1% of the votes, but the TSU did not win any posts. The New Party won 0.2% of votes. Independents won 4.65%. In the 319 township governments at stake, the KMT won 173 posts and the PFP won three, while the DPP won 35 and independents took the remaining 108. Heavily contested races included the Taipei County and Yilan County magistrate elections. In Taipei, DPP candidate Luo Wen-jia lost by a surprisingly large margin of 190,000 votes over KMT candidate Legislator Chou Hsi-wei, who had previously been with the PFP but left the PFP in favor of the KMT in order to receive the KMT nomination. In Yilan, KMT candidate Lu Kuo-hua won by only 8,000 votes over DPP candidate Chen Ding-nan, gaining control of the traditionally pro-DPP stronghold for the first time in 24 years. Both Luo and Chen had been plagued by allegations of vote buying. In Chiayi City, which had long been controlled by the independent Hsu clan, the KMT candidate won in a tight race against a DPP-backed former secretary of clan matriarch Hsu Shih-hsien, after current clan leader Chang Po-ya withdrew her endorsement for the DPP over perceived insults by a DPP legislator against the Hsu clan. KMT also took Keelung City, Taoyuan County, Hualien County, Penghu County, Nantou County, Changhua County, Taichung County, Taichung City, Miaoli County, Hsinchu County, and Hsinchu City. DPP won six constituencies, all in its traditional southern stronghold: Tainan County, Tainan City, Kaohsiung County, Pingtung County, Yunlin County, and Chiayi County. However, the Tainan County and Pingtung County victories were far closer than originally expected. PFP and the New Party retained control in Lienchang County and Kinmen County respectively, both outlying islands to the coast of mainland Fujian that have been strongly pro-unification and anti-independence. In Taitung County, independent Wu Chun-li, a former KMT member, won against two other independents. However, he was disqualified one day after inauguration on 20 December 2005 due to a corruption conviction that led him to be purged from the KMT. Lai Shun-hsien took over the position as acting Magistrate of Taitung County starting 21 December 2005 until 17 April 2006 when his successor Kuang Li-chen was elected to the magistrate office. Voter turnout was around 66%. Magistrate/mayor elections Taiwanese county magistrates and city mayoral elections, 2005 County/ City Winning candidate Party Changhua County Cho Po-yuan Kuomintang Chiayi City Huang Min-hui Kuomintang Chiayi County Chen Ming-wen Democratic Progressive Party Hsinchu City Lin Junq-tzer Kuomintang Hsinchu County Cheng Yung-chin Kuomintang Hualien County Hsieh Shen-shan 25px Kuomintang Kaohsiung County Yang Chiu-hsing Democratic Progressive Party Keelung City Hsu Tsai-li Kuomintang Kinmen County Lee Chu-feng New Party Lienchiang County Chen Hsueh-sheng People First Party Miaoli County Liu Cheng-hung Kuomintang Nantou County Lee Chao-ching Kuomintang Penghu County Wang Chien-fa Kuomintang Pingtung County Tsao Chi-hung Democratic Progressive Party Taichung City Jason Hu Kuomintang Taichung County Huang Chung-sheng Kuomintang Tainan City Hsu Tain-tsair Democratic Progressive Party Tainan County Su Huan-chih Democratic Progressive Party Taipei County Chou Hsi-wei Kuomintang Taitung County Wu Chun-li Independent Taoyuan County Eric Chu Kuomintang Yilan County Lu Kuo-hua Kuomintang Yunlin County Su Chih-fen Democratic Progressive Party Municipal elections Municipal elections were held on 9 December 2006. Taipei Mayoral Elections thumb|Hau Lung-pin, nominated by the KMT, elected as the Mayor of the Taipei City. NoCandidatePartyVotes%1Li Ao 7,7950.61%2Clara Chou Despite Chou's expulsion from the Taiwan Solidarity Union on November 9, 2006, the party could not withdraw their recommendation for Chou under Taiwan's Public Officials Election and Recall Law. She would still contest the elections as a TSU candidate.TSU expels Taipei mayoral candidate http://www.chinapost.com.tw/news/2006/11/10/94814/TSU-expels.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20150116183048/http://www.chinapost.com.tw/news/2006/11/10/94814/TSU-expels.htm dead January 16, 2015 16 January 2015 China Post 10 November 20063,3720.26%3Frank Hsieh 30px525,86940.89%4James Soong James Soong was Chairman of the People's First Party at the time of the elections, but entered the elections as an independent.Shih Hsiu-chuan Elections 2006: People First Party chairman announces an end to his career http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2006/12/10/2003339840 16 January 2015 Taipei Times 10 December 200630px53,2814.14%5Hau Lung-pin30px692,08553.81%6Ke Tsi-hai3,6870.29% Hau Lung-pin of the opposition party Kuomintang was elected Mayor of Taipei City, defeating the main opponent, Frank Hsieh of the governing Democratic Progressive Party. Taipei City Councillors Elections PartySeatsVotes%30pxKuomintang24555,48043.65% 30px Democratic Progressive Party18391,67430.77%30pxChinese New Party474,7525.87%30pxPeople First Party288,8526.98%30pxTaiwan Solidarity Union265,1975.12%30pxGreen Party -5,3810.42%30pxNon-Partisan Solidarity Union -1970.02%Chinese People's Party -4160.03%Independent or others290,9087.14%Total521,272,857100% Kaohsiung City Mayoral Elections thumb|Chen Chu, nominated by the DPP, elected as the Mayor of the Kaohsiung City. NoCandidatePartyVotes%1Huang Jun-ying30px378,30349.27%2Lin Chi-sheng 林志昇1,7460.23%3Lo Chih-ming6,5990.86%4Lin Ching-yuan 林景元1,8030.23%5Chen Chu 30px379,41749.41% Chen Chu of DPP was elected mayor of Kaohsiung, defeating the Kuomintang's Huang Jun-ying. Huang contested the result, claiming that there had been voting irregularities and Chen had violated election law by holding press conferences and rallies well after the lawful time limit, and attacked him during this time period with unconfirmed information. Huang also filed the twin "Annulment of Election Result" and "Annulment of Election" lawsuits with Kaohsiung District Court on the same day Chen was proclaimed Mayor-Elected. Subsequently, the court ordered a complete recount of the votes, starting on 12 March 2007 and completed six days later on 18 March. The result of the recount would be used as evidences in the lawsuits. On 15 June, the Kaohsiung District Court reached the decision to annulled the results of the Kaohsiung City Mayor Election, while dismissing the "Annulment of Election" lawsuit. Chen had since filed the appeal to the decision of "Annulment of Election Result",dead http://asia.news.yahoo.com/070615/afp/070615151323asiapacificnews.html https://web.archive.org/web/20070914080615/http://asia.news.yahoo.com/070615/afp/070615151323asiapacificnews.html 2007-09-14 Taiwan court annuls Kaohsiung mayor's election victory 16 June 2007 AFP Yahoo! News while Huang also filed the appeal to the decision of "Annulment of Election" lawsuit. On 16 November 2007, the High Court overturned the earlier decision and validated Chen's election victory, which was a final decision that could not be further appealed.http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?we_cat=3&art_id=57051&sid=16345355&con_type=1&d_str=20071117&fc=10 DPP mayor stays on top as court overturns ruling 2007-11-17 2007-11-17 The Standard dead https://web.archive.org/web/20071121055854/http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?we_cat=3&art_id=57051&sid=16345355&con_type=1&d_str=20071117&fc=10 2007-11-21 Kaohsiung City Councillors Elections PartySeatsVotes%30pxKuomintang17272,78535.95% 30px Democratic Progressive Party15231,41730.49%30pxChinese New Party -2330.03%30pxPeople First Party451,4756.78%30pxTaiwan Solidarity Union143,5645.74%Taiwan Jianguo Union (台灣建國聯盟) -6,9150.91%Taiwan Defense Alliance -2,3970.32%Independent or others7150,12519.78%Total44758,911100% Aftermath Su Tseng-chang resigned as DPP chairman soon after election results were announced. Su had pledged to step down if the DPP lost either Taipei County or failed to win 10 of the 23 mayor/magistrate positions. Vice President Annette Lu was appointed acting DPP leader. Presidential Office Secretary-General Yu Shyi-kun was elected in a three-way race against legislator Chai Trong-rong and Wong Chin-chu with 54.4% of the vote. Premier Frank Hsieh, DPP election organizer and former mayor of Kaohsiung (the city at the center of the MRT scandal) twice tendered a verbal resignation immediately following the election, but his resignation was not accepted by President Chen until January 17, 2006 after the DPP chairmanship election had concluded. The former DPP Chairman Su Tseng-chang was appointed to replace Hsieh as premier. Hsieh and his cabinet resigned en masse on January 24 to make way for Su and his new cabinet. President Chen had offered the position of Presidential Office Secretary-General (vacated by Yu) to the departing premier, but Hsieh refused and left office criticizing President Chen for his tough line stance on dealing with the PRC.2006-01-23 Taiwan's Chen warned over China https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4638276.stm BBC News en-GB live https://web.archive.org/web/20210309163305/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4638276.stm Mar 9, 2021 Newly elected KMT chairman Ma Ying-jeou saw his political fortunes bolstered by his party's election success. He had already successfully distanced himself from his predecessor, Lien Chan. Ma had declined to accompany Lien on his visit to mainland China earlier in the year and, as chairman, has appointed fresh faces to a number of party posts. He has now linked his name with the cause of clean government, a prominent KMT 2005 campaign pledge. The election is thus widely read as an expression of voter confidence in Ma's ability to achieve reform within his own party as well as in government. Ma has emerged as an early favorite in the 2008 presidential race. The PFP's failure to win outside Matsu County has put additional pressure on PFP chairman James Soong to discuss merging the PFP with the KMT. The PFP lost its control of Taitung County to an independent. It also faced a defection in Taipei County where Chou Hsi-wei left the PFP to gain the KMT nomination. In light of a controversial campaign tactic by DPP legislator Lin Chin-hsin (林進興), a physician, to publicize purported health records of KMT candidate Jason Hu (who won reelection as Taichung mayor), Lin and the other 11 physicians who participated in Lin's press conference have been disciplined by the Taichung City Department of Health. Lin's license was suspended for one year, while one of the physicians who organized the press conference as well, Kao Chia-chun (高嘉君) was suspended for one month. The other physicians received reprimands and mandatory ethics reeducation requirements. Lin, claiming both that the punishment was too severe and that since he practices in Kaohsiung, the Taichung authorities have no jurisdiction, has said that he will appeal the punishment. See also Elections in Taiwan Notes References Central Election Commission: 2005 Multi-Election - full results The China Post December 4, 2005 KMT wins in a landslide http://www.chinapost.com.tw/detail.asp?ID=73023&GRP=A dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120716232338/http://www.chinapost.com.tw/detail.asp?ID=73023&GRP=A Jul 16, 2012 December 4, 2005 Ma wins his last-minute gamble http://www.chinapost.com.tw/detail.asp?ID=73024&GRP=A dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120716232343/http://www.chinapost.com.tw/detail.asp?ID=73024&GRP=A Jul 16, 2012 December 4, 2005 DPP: Defeat a major setback http://www.chinapost.com.tw/detail.asp?ID=73025&GRP=A dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120716232403/http://www.chinapost.com.tw/detail.asp?ID=73025&GRP=A Jul 16, 2012 Taipei Times KMT crushes DPP in landslide victory KMT makes history in Chiayi City Taiwan (Republic of China) local 2005 Category:December 2005 in Taiwan Category:December 2006 in Taiwan