OUTRIDERS: About 8.4 percent of respondents said they would support third-party or independent candidates, which might affect councilors’ votes, a DPP hopeful said
Taipei Times
Date: Apr 02, 2018
By: Lee I-chia / Staff reporter
More than 40 percent of the public believes that the Democratic Progressive Party’s
Taiwan NextGen Foundation chairman Wang Zhin-sheng yesterday at a news conference in Taipei presents the results of an opinion poll on the performance of mayors and councilors. Photo: Liu Hsin-de, Taipei Times
(DPP) candidates will win in November’s mayoral and county commissioner elections, a poll published yesterday by the Taiwan NextGen Foundation showed.
According to the survey, 45.3 percent believe that the DPP’s candidates will win in the Nov. 24 nine-in-one elections, while 49.1 percent think that the party will win the majority of seats across the nation.
The poll showed that overall, 65.1 percent of respondents are satisfied with the administrative performance of the mayor or commissioner in their city or county of residence, while 24.8 percent are dissatisfied.
The highest average satisfaction rate of 67.1 percent was in cities or counties that have a DPP member as an administrative head, followed by 63 percent in areas with a Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) head and 60.4 percent in areas with an independent head.
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