2001–02 Taiwanese local elections

For the legislative election held in 2001, see 2001 Taiwan legislative election.

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]

2001–02 Taiwanese local elections

← 1998 1 December 2001 – 7 December 2002 (2001-12-01 – 2002-12-07)[a][1] 2005 →
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 Democratic Progressive 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
Elected magistrate/mayor party by seat

Magistrate/mayor elections in counties/cities

Taiwanese county magistrates and city mayoral elections, 2001
County/City	Winning Candidate	Party
Changhua County	Wong Chin-chu	Democratic Progressive Party
Chiayi City	Chen Li-chen	Independent
Chiayi County	Chen Ming-wen	Democratic Progressive Party
Hsinchu City	Lin Junq-tzer	Kuomintang
Hsinchu County	Cheng Yung-chin	Kuomintang
Hualien County	Chang Fu-hsing	Kuomintang
Kaohsiung County	Yang Chiu-hsing	Democratic Progressive Party
Keelung City	Hsu Tsai-li	Kuomintang
Kinmen County	Lee Chu-feng	New Party
Lienchiang County	Chen Hsueh-sheng	People First Party
Miaoli County	Fu Hsueh-peng	Independent
Nantou County	Lin Tsung-nan	Democratic Progressive Party
Penghu County	Lai Feng-wei	Kuomintang
Pingtung County	Su Jia-chyuan	Democratic Progressive Party
Taichung City	Jason Hu	Kuomintang
Taichung County	Huang Chung-sheng (黃仲生)	Kuomintang
Tainan City	Hsu Tain-tsair	Democratic Progressive Party
Tainan County	Su Huan-chih	Democratic Progressive Party
Taipei County	Su Tseng-chang	Democratic Progressive Party
Taitung County	Hsu Ching-yuan	People First Party
Taoyuan County	Eric Chu	Kuomintang
Yilan County	Liu Shou-ch'eng	Democratic Progressive Party
Yunlin County	Chang Jung-wei (張榮味)	Kuomintang

Mayor elections in special municipalities

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.

Taipei City

Ma Ying-jeou

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%

Kaohsiung City

Frank Hsieh

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%

See also

• Elections in Taiwan

Notes

1. • 2001-12-01: magistrates of counties and mayors of cities
   • 2002-01-26: councillors in county/city councils and mayors of township/cities
   • 2002-06-08: representatives in township/city councils and villages chiefs (all except in Taipei City)
   • 2002-12-07: mayors and councillors of special municipalities
2. • 993 councillors
   • 319 township/city mayors
   • 3,717 township/city council representatives
   • 7,360 village chiefs (all except in Taipei City)

   Figures in this infobox are for magistrate/mayor elections unless otherwise noted. Special municipalities are counted with counties/cities despite being counted separately in official statistics
3. Not yet established