Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/12/18
By: Liu Lee-jung and Ko Lin 

Taipei, Dec. 18 (CNA) Legislative by-elections for seats to be vacated by lawmakers who won the recent local government head elections in Tainan, Changhua and Kinmen will be held March 16, the Central Election Commission (CEC) announced Tuesday.

One election will be held for the seat representing Tainan’s second electoral district, which will be left vacant by Huang Wei-che (黃偉哲), who was elected as the city’s new mayor during the Nov. 24 local government elections.

The other election will fill the seat representing Changhua’s first electoral district after Wang Hui-mei (王惠美) became the county’s magistrate-elect.

The same will also apply to Kinmen, where a seat will be left vacant by Yang Cheng-wu (楊鎮浯) after he won the outlying county’s magistrate race.    [FULL  STORY]