Taiwanese municipal elections, 2002

Taiwanese municipal elections, 2002

7 December 2002

Party Democratic Progressive Kuomintang Popular vote 875,195 (Mayors) 675,818 (Councilmen) 850,357 (Mayors) 629,336 (Councilmen) Percentage 40.62% (Mayors) 31.42% (Councilmen) 39.46% (Mayors) 29.26% (Councilmen)

Results:   Kuomintang   Democratic Progressive Party   Divisions did not take part in this election.

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The Taiwanese municipal elections of 2002, commonly known as the Taiwanese metropolitan elections of 2002 (Chinese: 2002年直轄市公職人員選舉), was held on Saturday, December 7, 2002, to elect the mayors, councilmen and ward chiefs of the special-municipalities — Kaohsiung and Taipei.

The election was administered directly under the central central government of Taiwan. Mayor 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

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
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 Taiwan

Elections and referendums in Taiwan
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Referendums	2004 2008 (Jan) 2008 (Mar)
See also: Elections in the Republic of China (1912–49)