
The 2026 nine-in-one election campaign is intensifying. KMT legislators have invested in auxiliary elections in various counties and cities, demonstrating blue-white cooperation and local integration, and making every effort to lay the foundation for winning the 2026 election and the 2028 general election.
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Taiwan’s local civil servant elections (nine-in-one elections) will be held in 2026, and various political parties are actively carrying out layout and auxiliary elections.
The 2026 nine-in-one election campaign is intensifying. KMT legislators have joined the ranks of auxiliary elections in various counties and cities, hoping to lay the foundation for victory in the 2026 local elections and fight all the way to the 2028 general election to achieve the goal of party rotation and return to power. KMT Chairman Zheng Liwen also called for full support for the election and support for the comrades of the KMT. She hopes that the KMT will work together to win the 2026 election.
For the Lanying county and city that is seeking re-election, Kuomintang legislator You Hao, who is also the chairman of the Nantou County Party Committee, emphasized that Nantou County Magistrate Xu Shuhua has been in office for four years and has made contributions to Nantou that are obvious to all the villagers. Only by allowing Xu Shuhua to be re-elected and to be elected together with party candidates from 13 townships in Nantou can the greatest benefits be brought to Nantou.
Kuomintang Legislator Lin Peixiang also serves as the Keelung City Party Committee Chairman. He fully assisted in the election campaign, integrated local organizations, and worked with the People's Party Keelung City Party Committee Chairman, Deputy Mayor Qiu Peilin and others to create the determination of Blue and White to work together and unite to win the election.
Miaoli County Magistrate Zhong Dongjin established the Miaoli County Campaign Headquarters today, inviting legislator Chen Chaoming to serve as chairman and legislator Qiu Zhenjun as director-general. Qiu Zhenjun emphasized that in Miaoli, Lanbai is one family. The goal is the same in 2026, to concentrate votes and defeat the Democratic Progressive Party. In addition to the blue camp's solidarity and support, Lai Xiangling, chairperson of the Miaoli County Party Committee of the People's Party, also emphasized the unanimous support of the blue and white camps and allowed Zhong Dongjin to continue to lead Miaoli.
For Lanying County and City, KMT Legislator Huang Jianbin has taken on the important task of Taitung County Speaker Wu Xiuhua’s election as Director-General. Huang Jianbin said that Director-General is not a title, but a heavy responsibility. He, Rao Qingling, Wu Xiuhua and all team partners will work together, step by step, to build a better future for Taitung.
Kuomintang League Chief Fu Kunqi and his wife Hualien County Magistrate Xu Zhenwei worked hard to assist in the selection of Kuomintang candidate for Hualien County Magistrate and Ji'an Township Mayor You Shuzhen. Fu and Xu accompanied You Shuzhen to register for the election many times and conducted joint campaign activities. They demonstrated strong organizational and local mobilization capabilities, and were regarded by the outside world as the strongest support for the "Fu family's successor."
Kuomintang legislator Wang Yumin resigned from the post of chairman of the Chiayi County Party Headquarters of the Kuomintang and joined the campaign team of Taichung mayoral candidate Jiang Qichen as deputy chairman. Wang Yumin said that after Jiang Qichen's appointment, the party headquarters found a local party committee chairman who could take over after thinking about it. Local legislators are helping. This time the opposition alliance has support from factions, and arrangements have been made by the central and local party headquarters, so there will be no problem.
Constituencies such as Taipei and Taoyuan where the blue camp has an advantage do not dare to take it lightly. Taking Taoyuan as an example, 6-seat party legislators serve as "district supervisors" to comprehensively connect and integrate central, local and grassroots combat capabilities. Zhang Shanzheng sticks to his municipal duties and gives back to the citizens with his achievements; the election affairs are divided into divisions of labor by the campaign team, so that municipal administration and election affairs complement each other. Through separate advancement and joint attacks, Taoyuan Municipal Government will continue to make progress.
In addition, compared with Taipei mayoral candidate and Democratic Progressive Party legislator Shen Boyang, who went to Japan to establish a Japanese support association, Kuomintang legislators Xu Qiaoxin, Hong Mengkai, Luo Zhiqiang, Liao Weixiang, Ge Rujun, Luo Tingwei and Huang Jianhao also recently went to San Francisco to visit overseas Chinese.
The visiting delegation pointed out that this trip shoulders the three core tasks of "communication with the United States, congressional diplomacy, and overseas election support" and held a number of large-scale overseas Chinese community campaigning and solicitation activities on both sides of the East and West.
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The Kuomintang will make every effort to integrate local and blue and white forces in the 2026 nine-in-one election
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