The mayoral and city-councillor elections for Taipei and Kaohsiung, the two special municipalities administered directly under the central government, consisted the 2006 Republic of China (Taiwan) municipal elections on 2006-12-09.
Results for Taipei City
Taipei Mayoral Elections
Hau Lung-pin of the opposition party Kuomintang was elected mayor of Taipei, defeating the main opponent, Frank Hsieh of the governing Democratic Progressive Party.
Taipei City Councillors Elections
Results for Kaohsiung City
Kaohsiung City Mayoral Elections
| No |
Candidate |
Party |
Votes |
% |
| 1 |
Huang Chun-ying 黃俊英 |
 |
378,303 |
49.27% |
| 2 |
Lin Chi-sheng 林志昇 |
|
1,746 |
0.23% |
| 3 |
Lo Chih-ming 羅志明 |
 |
6,599 |
0.86% |
| 4 |
Lin Ching-yuan 林景元 |
|
1,803 |
0.23% |
| 5 |
Chen Chu 陳菊 |
 |
379,417 |
49.41% |
Chen Chu of DPP was elected mayor of Kaohsiung, defeating the major rival, Kuomintang's Huang Chun-ying.
Huang contested the result, claiming that there had been voting irregularities and Chen had violated election law by holding press conferences and rallies well after the lawful time limit, and attacked him during this time period with unconfirmed information. Huang also filed the twin "Annulment of Election Result" and "Annulment of Election" law suits with Kaohsiung District Court on the same day Chen was proclaimed Mayor-Elected. Subsequently, the court ordered a complete recount of the votes, starting on March 12, 2007 and completed six days later on March 18. The result of the recount would be used as evidences in the law suits.
On June 15 the Kaohsiung District Court reached the decision to annulled the results of the Kaohsiung City Mayor Election, while dismissing the "Annulment of Election" law suit. Chen had since filed the appeal to the decision of "Annulment of Election Result"[3], while Huang also filed the appeal to the decision of "Annulment of Election" law suit. On November 16, 2007, the High Court overturned the earlier decision and validated Chen's election victory, which was a final decision that could not be further appealed.[4]
Kaohsiung City Councillors Elections
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