Taiwan ruling party, opposition each win mayoral votes
By Xue Ling,WNS Taipei Correspondent
TAIPEI - Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party and the main opposition Kuomintang each won mayoral election victories on Saturday, the central election commission said. The Kuomintang's (KMT's) Hau Long-bin, a former environmental protection minister, bagged 669,965 votes, or 53.94 percent, in Taipei, to beat his main rival, Frank Hsieh of the DPP, who took 506,310 votes, or 40.76 percent, with more than 99 percent of votes counted.
"Today's is the showdown between clean politics and graft. The clean and righteous KMT defeated the corrupted DPP and this is the victory of all residents in Taipei," Hau told his supporters. In southern Kaohsiung, final results showed the DPP's Chen Chu had won the neck-and-neck race with 379,417 votes, or 49.41 percent, over the 378,297 votes, or 49.27 percent, for the KMT's Huang Chun-ying in her party's traditional stronghold. An estimated 70 percent of the two million-plus eligible voters in Taipei and million-plus in Kaohsiung were expected to cast their ballots to elect mayors and local councils.
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