ROC President and Legislative elections Jan 11 2020

[Neptunium]

Congratulations!

End up the special election result a landslide victory of Chen Chi-mai, the DPP candidate.

Chen Chi-mai(陳其邁)    DPP(民主進步黨)    671,804 70.03%
Li Mei-jhen(李眉蓁)        KMT(中國國民黨)   248,478 25.90%
Wu Yi-jheng(吳益政)      TPP(台灣民眾黨)      38,960   4.06%  

By this margin this election is the election which DPP perform best since it was formed.

[Neptunium]

Left: 2020 Presidential election in Chungli District, Taoyuan City:
(DPP) Tsai Ing-wen: 51.46% (126,600 votes)
(KMT) Han Kuo-yu: 43.70% (107,499 votes)

Right: 2021 Taoyuan City Council recall vote:
Agree: 25.81% of electorate (84,582 votes) (92.23% of all valid votes)
Disagree: 2.17% of electorate (7,128 votes) (7.77% of all valid votes)
Turnout: 28.14%

After the recall threshold was lowered to 25% in 2016, it is much easier to recall politicians now compared to 10-20 years ago. It was used to be 50%!

Earlier today, the CEC has announced that there will be no by-election or appointment to fill Wang's seat, leaving it vacant until the rest of the term (December 24, 2022).
Source (in Chinese)

THIS MAP IS GREAT!

This shows height correlation between political affiliation and agree voter turn out.

Could you allow me to publish this map on PTT?

[Neptunium]

Left: 2021 Kaohsiung City Council recall vote: (% of all valid votes)
Disagree: 54.20% (65,391 votes)
Agree: 45.80% (55,261 votes)
Turnout: 41.54%
(Note: Grey = tied)

Top Right: 2020 Presidential election in Fongshan District, Kaohsiung City:
(DPP) Tsai Ing-wen: 60.63% (138,172 votes)
(KMT) Han Kuo-yu: 36.17% (82,432 votes)

Bottom Right: 2021 Kaohsiung City Council recall vote: (% of electorate)
Disagree: 22.43% of electorate
Agree: 18.95% of electorate

Neptunium, feel free to post this at PTT. I also included a Chinese legend if you want it.

P.S. Here are the results of the 1981 and 1985 magistrate elections in Yilan County, which saw the victory of Tangwai legend Chen Ding-nan (陳定南).
https://web.cec.gov.tw/ilec/cms/history007

P.P.S. Here are the village/administrative division-level results of the March 1993 magistrate by-election in Penghu County (NOTE: NOT the general election in November). Results can be found at p. 14.
https://ens.phlib.nat.gov.tw/rb/index-1.asp?Parser=99,8,23,,,,19930315,128,,,15

Take them if you are interested!

THANKS YOU VERY MUCH!

[Neptunium]

Well, the Han Kuo-yu fans are at it again. Following the failure of getting Huang Jie recalled, they are now targeting fellow Kaohsiung city councilor Kao Min-lin 高閔琳, who is also a outspoken critic of Han. Before this month, the recall process has entered the second phase, where they have to gather 19,144 signatures to pass (=10% of electorate of Kao's constituency, which includes Yung'an 永安, Gangshan 岡山, Yanchao 燕巢, Mituo 彌陀, Ziguan 梓官 and Ciaotou 橋頭 districts).

Yesterday, the Kaohsiung City Election Commission announced that the recall initiators failed to gather enough valid signatures for the second phase, citing the excessive number of repeat signatures (note: someone who already signed in the first phase are ineligible to sign again in the second phase). In other words, the initiative is now dead!

Source (in Chinese): https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/politics/breakingnews/3453894

Sigh, I wish they would have succeeds to pass second phase, since I like election anyways .