There are 99 days left for Taiwan’s end-of-year “nine-in-one” election. The election department of the Democratic Progressive Party authorities yesterday (18th) released an announcement for the 2022 local public office elections. The total number of voters will reach more than 19,305,000. “First-time voters” There are 768,726 people. Taiwan's "Network Thermometer" released its latest election forecast yesterday. If the votes were cast yesterday, the Kuomintang would win 17 of Taiwan's 22 counties and cities, and the Democratic Progressive Party would win 5. However, the election results in Taipei, Taoyuan, Hsinchu City, etc. are still It's a stalemate, and things may change at any time.
Li Jinyong, the "chairman" of the election department of the Democratic Progressive Party authority, said that the year-end election is scheduled to vote from 8 am to 4 pm on Saturday, November 26. After the announcement on the 18th, the election period will officially enter. The registration period for candidates is from August 29 to September 2. In addition to November 26, a total of 11,023 county and city public officials will be elected across Taiwan. A total of 17,648 voting offices will be set up for this election, an increase of 1,762 from 15,886 in 2018, and more than 300,000 election workers will be mobilized.
According to the forecast of the newly launched "2022 Election Thermometer" by Taiwan's "Network Thermometer", if the votes were cast yesterday, the Kuomintang would win 17 of Taiwan's 22 counties and cities, and the Democratic Progressive Party would win 5 counties and cities. Among the "six cities", the Kuomintang will win Taipei, New Taipei , Taoyuan and Taichung City, while the DPP will win Tainan and Kaohsiung City.
However, the "Election Thermometer" also analyzed that although the KMT won Taipei City, the candidate Jiang Wanan was only ahead of the DPP candidate Chen Shizhong by 2.9%; in Taoyuan, the KMT candidate Zhang Shanzheng was only ahead of the DPP. Candidate Zheng Yunpeng 3.5%.
Outside the "six capitals", Hsinchu City KMT candidate Lin Gengren is slightly ahead of People's Party candidate Gao Hong'an by 0.5%; Yunlin County Mayor Zhang Lishan is only ahead of DPP opponent Liu Jianguo by 1. 4%; in Keelung City, Democratic Progressive Party candidate Cai Yongsheng leads KMT candidate Xie Guoliang by 1.3%, and Penghu County Mayor Lai Fengwei only leads DPP candidate Chen Guangfuhtml by 40.2%. In the undecided day. Miaoli County Magistrate was won by Speaker Zhong Dongjin, but Zhong was not nominated and ran for election on his own. He has not yet left the Kuomintang membership, and subsequent developments remain to be seen.
In response to this, some Taiwanese netizens believed, “It’s not that the KMT is too good, it’s because the DPP is really rotten to the core and there’s no way to save it”, “It’s great, I hope everything is blue, green is too scary”, “I Southerners! I despise the Democratic Progressive Party." "Now I have to support the Kuomintang. The political parties must be rotated so that they won't mess around." "That's great. The Democratic Progressive Party has been in power for too long and is very arrogant." But some netizens said, "To paraphrase the candidates, it will be true when the votes are issued, and previous predictions are meaningless." (Lin Jingxian/Editor)
Source: Straits Herald
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