Taiwanese municipal elections, 2002

Republic of China (Taiwan) municipal elections, 2002

7 December 2002
2 Municipal Mayors, 96 Municipal Councilmen
First party Second party   Leader Chen Shui-bian Lien Chan Party Democratic Progressive Kuomintang Leader since May 20, 2000 March 20, 2000 Seats won 1 (Municipal Mayors) 31 (Municipal Councilmen) 1 (Municipal Mayors) 32 (Municipal Councilmen) Popular vote 875,195 (Municipal Mayors) 675,818 (Municipal Councilmen) 850,357 (Municipal Mayors) 629,336 (Municipal Councilmen) Percentage 40.62% (Municipal Mayors) 31.42% (Municipal Councilmen) 39.46% (Municipal Mayors) 29.26% (Municipal Councilmen)
The results of the municipal mayoral elections:       Kuomintang       Democratic Progressive Party       Taiwan Province and Fukien Province, which did not take part in this election.

The Republic of China municipal elections of 2002, commonly known as the Taiwan metropolitan elections of 2002 (Chinese: 2002年臺灣北高選舉), was held on Saturday, December 7, 2002, to elect the municipal mayors, municipal councilmen, and ward chiefs of the two current and newly created special-municipalities (Kaohsiung and Taipei) administered directly under the central government of the Republic of China. Mayoral candidates for the Kuomintang were elected in Taipei, while candidates for the Democratic Progressive Party were elected in Kaohsiung.

Taipei

Electoral background

Results of Past Taipei Municipal Mayoral Elections
Year	Winning Candidate	Political Party
1994	Chen Shui-bian	Democratic Progressive Party
1998	Ma Ying-jeou	Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party)

Results

Ma Ying-jeou

Municipal Mayoral Election

Party		#	Candidate	Votes	Percentage
	Kuomintang	2	Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九)	873,102	64.11%
	Democratic Progressive Party	1	Lee Ying-yuan (李應元)	488,811	35.89%
Total				1,374,862	100.00%
Voter turnout				70.61%

Kaohsiung

Electoral background

Results of Past Kaohsiung Municipal Mayoral Elections
Year	Winning Candidate	Political Party
1994	Wu Den-yih	Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party)
1998	Hsieh Chang-ting	Democratic Progressive Party

Results

Frank Hsieh

Municipal Mayoral Election

Party		#	Candidate	Votes	Percentage
	Democratic Progressive Party	5	Hsieh Chang-ting (謝長廷)	386,384	50.04%
	Kuomintang	4	Huang Jun-ying (黃俊英)	361,546	46.82%
	Independent	2	Chang Po-ya (張博雅)	13,479	1.75%
	Independent	1	Shih Ming-te (施明德)	8,750	1.13%
	Independent	3	Huang Tian-sheng (黃天生)	1,998	0.26%
Total				779,911	100.00%
Voter turnout				71.38%

See also

• Elections in the Republic of China