2001–02 Taiwanese local elections

2001–02 Taiwanese local elections

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25 magistrates/mayors and others[b]
Registered	15,875,304
Turnout	67.30% 1.52 pp
First party Second party   Leader Lien Chan Frank Hsieh Party Kuomintang DPP Leader since 20 March 2000 20 April 2000 Last election 9 seats, 43.95% 13 seats, 44.14% Seats won 10 10 Seat change 1 3 Popular vote 4,184,865 4,674,904 Percentage 39.75% 44.40% Swing 4.21 pp 0.26 pp Councillors 412 178 Township/city mayors 195 28   Third party Fourth party   Leader James Soong Hau Lung-pin Party People First New Leader since 31 March 2000 March 2000 Last election Did not stand[c] 0 seats, 1.60% Seats won 2 1 Seat change 2 1 Popular vote 197,707 834,956 Percentage 1.88% 7.93% Swing New party 6.33 pp Councillors 64 8 Township/city mayors 4 0
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Local elections were held in Taiwan on 1 December 2001 to elect magistrates of counties and mayors of cities, on 26 January 2002 to elect councillors in county/city councils and mayors of townships and cities, on 8 June 2002 to elect representatives in township/city councils and village chiefs (all except in Taipei City), and on 7 December 2002 to elect mayors and councillors of special municipalities.^[2]

The election was administered directly under the central government of Taiwan. Mayor candidates for the Kuomintang were elected in Taipei, while candidates for the Democratic Progressive Party were elected in Kaohsiung.

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

Results

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%

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

Results

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%

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