Taiwan Election Index

Taiwan Election Index:

KMT margin of victory, Taipei, 1998: 5%
KMT margin of victory, Taipei, 2002: 28%
KMT margin of victory, Taipei, 2006: 13%

Percentage vote for DPP in Taipei, 1994: 43
Percentage vote for DPP in Taipei, 1998: 45
Percentage vote for DPP in Taipei, 2002: 37
Percentage vote for DPP in Taipei, 2006: 40

Number of votes KMT Taipei Mayor candidate Ma Ying-jeou received in 2002 election: 873,102
Number of votes KMT Taipei Mayor candidate Hau Lung-bin received in Saturday's election: 692,085

Number of votes KMT Taipei Mayor candidate Hau Lung-bin received in Saturday's election: 692,085
Number of votes DPP Taipei Mayor candidate Frank Hsieh received in Saturday's election:525,869
Number of votes for "independent" mayoral candidate James Soong, Chairman of the PFP: 53,281
Number of City Council seats lost by Soong' s PFP: 6

Number of votes for independent Taipei mayoral candidate Li Ao, who recently gassed the legislature: 7,795
Number of patients escaped from mental institutions in and around Taipei last week: 7,794*

Number of votes for DPP Kaohsiung Mayor candidate Chen Chu: 379,417
Margin of victory of DPP Kaohsiung mayor candidate Chen Chu in Saturday's election:1,114
Number of votes for DPP-allied TSU Kaohsiung mayor candidate Lo Chih-ming in Saturday's election: 6,599

Number of seats gained by DPP on Taipei City Council: 1
Number of seats gained by DPP-allied TSU on Taipei City Council: 2
Number of seats gained by KMT on Taipei City Council: 4
Number of seats lost by KMT-allied PFP on Taipei City Council: 6
Number of seats lost by KMT-allied New Party on Taipei City Council:1
Number of seats gained, DPP and allies: 3
Number of seats gained, KMT and allies: -3

Number of seats gained by DPP on Kaohsiung City Council: 1
Number of seats gained by KMT on Kaohsiung City Council: 5

Number of articles in Foreign Affairs written by Robert Ross based on results of recent election claiming support for independence was fading: 1
Projected number of articles in Foreign Affairs written by Robert Ross based on results of recent election claiming support for independence is growing: 0
Total amount of silliness of basing analysis of independence support on results of single election: 100%

"The success of the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) in last Saturday's three-in-one elections marks the end of ethnic politics in the island and the beginning of a New Taiwanese identity." Year this article was written:1998

[Taiwan] [DPP] [KMT] [Chen Shui-bian] [James Soong] [Taipei] [Kaohsiung] [Chen Chu]

*maddog's joke, not mine!