County Yunlin KMT KMT KMT KMT DPP DPP DPP County Chiayi NP NP NP NP KMT KMT DPP City Chiayi KMT KMT KMT DPP DPP DPP DPP County Pingtung DPP KMT DPP DPP DPP DPP DPP County Hualian KMT KMT KMT KMT KMT NP NP County Taitung KMT KMT KMT PFP NP KMT KMT County Penghu KMT DPP KMT KMT KMP KMT DPP County Kinmon KMT KMT KMT CNP CNP KMT NP Mazu KMT KMT KMT PFP PFP KMT KMT Source:Central Election Commission,Taiwan From Table 1,it can be seen that the KMT and the DPP usually obtained more than 85%of votes during mayoral and magisterial elections,except for the year of 1994,when the CNP candidate for Taipei's mayoralty received 30%of the votes(21%if we calculate on the total votes for Taipei and Kaohsiung mayoral elections)and the year of 2001 when the KMT-supported CNP candidate for Taipei County's magisterial seat gained significant votes.Among 167 mayoralties and magistracies elected over the past quarter of a century the two main parties received 149 positions(89.2%),and other small parties and nonparty candidates obtained 18 only (10.8%).As for the two main parties,the KMT obtained much more position than the DPP(87 versus 62).The KMT's clear majority came mainly from city mayoral and county magisterial elections in the early years.As for the metropolitan mayoral elections,the two parties divided the mayoralties evenly from the very beginning-each obtained four seats between 1994 and 2006.During the 2010 mayoral elections,the KMT managed to maintain three seats out of five while the DPP maintained two.The votes the KMT got that year(44.5%)should not be taken at its face value,as the votes of independent candidate for Kaohsiung mayoralty Yang Chiu-hsing (Yang Qiuxing)came mainly from the KMT supporters but were not taken into account in the official figures.Without the factor of independent Yang,the KMT and the DPP might have then obtained similar vote shares. The KMT's advantage over the DPP in city mayoral and county magisterial elections began to change in 1997,when the DPP received a little more votes but much more executive positions than the KMT.2 The KMT again enjoyed supremacy in the 2005 and 2009 local elections,but ended up with a great defeat in 2014.During the 2014 elections, the KMT obtained only one metropolitan mayoralty (New Taipei)and five county 2 Dafydd Fell,Government and Politics in Taiwan (London&New York:Roudledge,2012),p.60.4 County Yunlin County KMT KMT / KMT / KMT / DPP / DPP / DPP Chiayi City NP NP / NP / NP / KMT / KMT / DPP Chiayi County KMT KMT / KMT / DPP / DPP / DPP / DPP Pingtung County DPP KMT / DPP / DPP / DPP / DPP / DPP Hualian County KMT KMT / KMT / KMT / KMT / NP / NP Taitung County KMT KMT / KMT / PFP / NP / KMT / KMT Penghu County KMT DPP / KMT / KMT / KMP / KMT / DPP Kinmon KMT KMT / KMT / CNP / CNP / KMT / NP Mazu KMT KMT / KMT / PFP / PFP / KMT / KMT Source: Central Election Commission, Taiwan. From Table 1, it can be seen that the KMT and the DPP usually obtained more than 85% of votes during mayoral and magisterial elections, except for the year of 1994, when the CNP candidate for Taipei’s mayoralty received 30% of the votes (21% if we calculate on the total votes for Taipei and Kaohsiung mayoral elections) and the year of 2001 when the KMT-supported CNP candidate for Taipei County’s magisterial seat gained significant votes. Among 167 mayoralties and magistracies elected over the past quarter of a century the two main parties received 149 positions (89.2%), and other small parties and nonparty candidates obtained 18 only (10.8%). As for the two main parties, the KMT obtained much more position than the DPP (87 versus 62). The KMT’s clear majority came mainly from city mayoral and county magisterial elections in the early years. As for the metropolitan mayoral elections, the two parties divided the mayoralties evenly from the very beginning—each obtained four seats between 1994 and 2006. During the 2010 mayoral elections, the KMT managed to maintain three seats out of five while the DPP maintained two. The votes the KMT got that year (44.5%) should not be taken at its face value, as the votes of independent candidate for Kaohsiung mayoralty Yang Chiu-hsing (Yang Qiuxing) came mainly from the KMT supporters but were not taken into account in the official figures. Without the factor of independent Yang, the KMT and the DPP might have then obtained similar vote shares. The KMT’s advantage over the DPP in city mayoral and county magisterial elections began to change in 1997, when the DPP received a little more votes but much more executive positions than the KMT.2 The KMT again enjoyed supremacy in the 2005 and 2009 local elections, but ended up with a great defeat in 2014. During the 2014 elections, the KMT obtained only one metropolitan mayoralty (New Taipei) and five county 2 Dafydd Fell, Government and Politics in Taiwan (London & New York: Roudledge, 2012), p.60