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2 Taiwan Development Perspectives 2009<br />
I. Presidential Election of 2008<br />
Voters turned out in droves on March 22, 2008 to<br />
elect their president and vice president for the next four<br />
years. Ma Ying-Jeou, standard bearer of the Kuomintang,<br />
was elected president. He and his running mate,<br />
Vincent Siew, received 7,659,014 votes or 58.45 percent<br />
of the votes cast to handily defeat their Democratic<br />
Progressive Party rivals Frank Hsieh and Su<br />
Tseng-chang. It was a crowning success. The Kuomintang<br />
won the important local elections in 2006 and a<br />
landslide in the legislative elections in January 2008.<br />
The Kuomintang is in full control of the government.<br />
When Chen Shui-bian of the Democratic Progressive<br />
Party was elected president in 2000, people in<br />
Taiwan expected him to introduce a government free of<br />
corruption and graft and usher in a new era of prosperity.<br />
They were let down. The administration in the eight<br />
years that followed made little improvement in the life<br />
of the people. Worse still, President Chen and his family<br />
were embroiled in corruption and graft. Moreover,<br />
he resorted to brinksmanship to confront China and his<br />
de-Sinicization campaign further polarized Taiwan,<br />
destroying its communal harmony all but beyond repairs,<br />
in his all-out effort to get reelected in 2004. All<br />
this paved the way for the easy Kuomintang victory.<br />
(See the tables below for the results of the presidential<br />
election of 2008.)<br />
Table 1 Votes Received by KMT and DPP by Counties and Cities in 2008 Presidential Election<br />
District<br />
Name<br />
Number<br />
of votes<br />
received<br />
Rate District Name<br />
Number<br />
of votes<br />
received<br />
Taipei County Ma Ying-Jeou 1359419 61.06% Taipei County Hsieh Chang-ting 866915 38.94%<br />
Yilan County Ma Ying-Jeou 130951 51.42% Yilan County Hsieh Chang-ting 123700 48.58%<br />
Taoyuan County<br />
Ma Ying-Jeou 693602 64.64% Taoyuan County Hsieh Chang-ting 379416 35.36%<br />
Hsinchu County Ma Ying-Jeou 208445 74.02% Hsinchu County Hsieh Chang-ting 73178 25.98%<br />
Miaoli County Ma Ying-Jeou 227069 70.99% Miaoli County Hsieh Chang-ting 92795 29.01%<br />
Taichung<br />
County<br />
Ma Ying-Jeou 505698 58.84% Taichung County Hsieh Chang-ting 353706 41.16%<br />
Changhua<br />
County<br />
Ma Ying-Jeou 419700 57.59% Changhua County Hsieh Chang-ting 309134 42.41%<br />
Nantou County Ma Ying-Jeou 179630 62.03% Nantou County Hsieh Chang-ting 109955 37.97%<br />
Yunlin County Ma Ying-Jeou 187705 48.47% Yunlin County Hsieh Chang-ting 199558 51.53%<br />
Chiayi County Ma Ying-Jeou 139603 45.56% Chiayi County Hsieh Chang-ting 166833 54.44%<br />
Tainan County Ma Ying-Jeou 276751 43.85% Tainan County Hsieh Chang-ting 354409 56.15%<br />
Kaohsiung<br />
County<br />
Ma Ying-Jeou 353333 48.59% Kaohsiung County Hsieh Chang-ting 373900 51.41%<br />
Pingtung<br />
County<br />
Ma Ying-Jeou 247305 49.75% Pingtung County Hsieh Chang-ting 249795 50.25%<br />
Taitung County Ma Ying-Jeou 81668 73.32% Taitung County Hsieh Chang-ting 29714 26.68%<br />
Hualien County Ma Ying-Jeou 137604 77.48% Hualien County Hsieh Chang-ting 40003 22.52%<br />
Penghu County Ma Ying-Jeou 25037 57.93% Penghu County Hsieh Chang-ting 18181 42.07%<br />
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