Former Vice-Premier Chen Chi-mai has been elected Mayor of Kaohsiung. Chen, who represented the Democratic Progressive Party, won in a landslide victory on Saturday, garnering 70% of the vote with 671,804 votes.
Chen beat out Li Mei-jhen of the KMT, who received 248,478 votes, or 25.9% of the total ballots cast. The third contender for the spot was the Taiwan People’s Party’s Wu Yi-jhen, who took the remaining 4.1% with 38,960 votes.
Chen will serve out the remaining two years of the current mayoral term. Chen lost to the KMT’s Han Kuo-yu during the 2018 mayoral election. However, Han was recalled in early June. Since then, an acting mayor has been overseeing Kaohsiung’s day-to-day operations.