This year's registration for of the "nine-in-one" election in Taiwan has ended. On November 26, 19,825 candidates will compete for 11,023 positions. Don’t look at it, in general, about 1.8 candidates compete for one position, but the situation is different in each place.
Someone is elected equally. There are two situations here, one is called no opponent, and the other is called guaranteed. It is easy to understand if there is no opponent. For example, Alishan Township, the seventh constituency of Chiayi County, Baisha Township, the third constituency of Penghu, and Wangan Township, the fifth constituency of Wang'an Township, the number of members elected in these places is the same as the number of registrations. You have to choose one, one person to register, two people to register, and then it must be him (her).
There is also a situation where you are elected equally, called "guaranteed". According to Taiwan's regulations, at least one woman must be elected when each constituency elects a member of parliament. Although there are many people who have signed up for the fifth constituency of Hsinchu City, Liao Ziqi is the only female candidate. Therefore, according to the provisions of "women's guarantee quota", no matter how she chooses, she will be elected in accordance with the so-called "women's guarantee quota".
Of course, "You can be elected even if you lie flat" is a very special phenomenon. Most places have fierce competition, and the most intense one is the mayor of Taipei. In addition to Jiang Wan'an, Huang Shanshan and Chen Shizhong who are often heard of, there are 9 candidates running for the election, with a total of 12 people competing for the throne of Taipei mayor. One of them is called Zhang Jiahao, and I will pay attention to him because the political party he belongs to is called the Taiwan Animal Protection Party. This party is a husband-and-wife shop, the wife is the party chairman, and the husband is the party vice chairman. This year, his wife Hua Peijun was elected as a member of Taipei City Council, and her husband Zhang Jiahao was elected as mayor of Taipei City.
You need to have political opinions when choosing a mayor. As candidates for the animal protection party, their political opinions are that animals should be like humans and have public hospitals. They also advocate that if someone maliciously abandons animals, they will be fined NT$1 million .
Every time Taiwan has many interesting things to do when it comes to election registration. Because most candidates rarely have media exposure, if they have some special routines and moves when they run for election registration, the media will pay attention to them. For example, Xu Dongqu, the candidate for the mayor of Baoshan Township, Hsinchu County this year, found eight girls wearing red cheongsams to register with her, and the media will report on the beauty corps and cheongsam corps.
In addition to using red clothes, you also like to use red for the money you pay. For Taiwan election registration, you need to pay a "guarantee". If you want to choose the mayor of six major cities, the deposit is NT$1.5 million, the city councillor of six major cities, the deposit is NT$200,000, the deposit for other county and city mayors is NT$200,000, and the deposit for county and city councillors is NT$120,000.
This deposit cannot be paid, and the requirement is cash or check. So some candidates will bring cash. This brings up a new question. For so much money, will you choose large-value cash for easy money? No, someone will choose the minimum denomination value of cash instead. Why? Still color. Taiwan’s New Taiwan dollars are often used, with face value of 100, 500 and 1000.
1,000 New Taiwan Dollar is blue, NT$100 is red. Many candidates think red is more auspicious, so they will bring NT$100. You think it will take a lot of time to just spot these cash.
Regarding this deposit, a netizen asked before, why do you have to pay a deposit for the election? This is mainly because of the threshold set by the fear of too many people running for election. You think that Taiwan can run for county and city mayors if it is over 30 years old. If there is no deposit, it is important to participate. A bunch of people go to register. Then there may be not a few mayor candidates, more than a dozen, and there may be thousands. As a result, the ballots must be printed and long. When voters go to vote, it may be difficult to find the candidates they like.
In order to avoid such a situation, there is a margin system. If the number of votes received is lower than the total number of votes divided by ten percent of the number of places to be selected, the margin will not be refunded. The data for this year has not been obtained yet. Let’s take 2018 as an example. If you choose the mayor of Taipei, if the number of votes is less than 216,000, the deposit will not be obtained.Therefore, Zhang Jiahao, the Animal Protection Party who is running for the mayor of Taipei, is likely to be unable to get his deposit this year.
