2026 Local Public Officials Election, Republic of China (Taiwan)

2026 Local Elections

On November 28, 2026, Taiwan votes for nine local offices on the same day

  • Voting hours

    Sat, Nov 28, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

  • What to bring

    Your National ID card (a personal seal is optional)

  • Where to vote

    The polling station for your household registration address

Candidates for mayor and county magistrate

22 races, 81 candidates. Every candidate is shown in the same format, with no polls and no indication of who is ahead. Until the ballot-number draw, candidates in each race are listed by registration date.

CEC-approved list · ballot numbers added after the Oct 23 draw · data as of

Sources: CEC approval notice; “Incumbent” labels follow Central News Agency (CNA) reporting

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Special municipality mayors 6 races

Registration roster

County magistrates and city mayors 16 races

Registration roster

How to vote

The questions people ask most before voting day, each answered with an official source.

When is voting day?

Saturday, November 28, 2026, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. National Referendum Case No. 22 is voted on the same day during the same hours.

Official source: CEC election announcement

Who can vote in the local elections?

Citizens aged 20 or older who have lived in the electoral district continuously for at least four months, with both counted up to the day before voting day. Anyone who moved their household registration into the district after the election announcement of August 20 cannot vote in this election.

Official source: Civil Servants Election and Recall Act

What do I need to bring?

Your National ID card. When you collect your ballots you sign, stamp a seal, or press a fingerprint on the voter roll, and any one of the three is enough, so a personal seal is optional. Without your ID card you cannot collect ballots. If your card was lost and the new one has not been issued yet, bring the temporary certificate with your photo from the household registration office.

Official source: Civil Servants Election and Recall Act, CEC rules against duplicate voting and ballot fraud

Where do I vote?

At the polling station for your household registration address. Taiwan has no general absentee voting, so you need to go back to where your household is registered. Polling stations are announced by each city and county election commission, linked from the CEC polling station notice.

Official source: CEC polling station notice, Civil Servants Election and Recall Act

What are the rules inside the polling station?

Phones must be switched off before you bring them in, photography is not allowed, and you may not show your marked ballot to anyone; violations can be penalized. With several elections on the same day, cast all your ballots in one visit, because once you leave the polling station you cannot go back in to vote.

Official source: Civil Servants Election and Recall Act

Where can I find the election bulletin and platform presentations?

The election bulletin reaches every household no later than two days before voting day and is also published on the CEC bulletin website. Official platform presentations run November 13 to 27 for special municipality mayors and November 18 to 27 for county and city mayors.

Official source: CEC election and referendum bulletin site, CEC election work schedule

When are the votes counted?

As soon as voting closes at 4 p.m., each polling station becomes a counting station on the spot. Ballots are read aloud and counted in public, and the results are posted at the station entrance.

Official source: Civil Servants Election and Recall Act

Same-day referendum

National Referendum Case No. 22 is on the same day

National Referendum Case No. 22 is voted on the same day and during the same hours as the local elections: November 28, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Ballot question (official Chinese text from the CEC)

「你是否支持政府使用『核電』振興經濟，以廢除『非核家園』的能源政策？」

Unofficial translation by Taiwan.md

Do you support the government using “nuclear power” to revitalize the economy, so as to abolish the “nuclear-free homeland” energy policy?

Proposed by
The Legislative Yuan. The CEC formally established the case on August 28, 2026.
Voting age
Age 18 for the referendum and age 20 for the local elections. The two age thresholds are different.
Passing threshold
Valid yes votes must outnumber no votes, and valid yes votes must reach one quarter of all eligible voters.
Public presentations
The CEC holds five opinion presentations or debates, the first on November 12.

This card covers the voting procedure only and does not present either side’s arguments. For official materials, see the CEC notice and the referendum bulletin site.

Official sources: CEC referendum notice, Referendum bulletin site

Election timeline

Statutory schedule adopted by the CEC at its 622nd commission meeting on October 31, 2025

  1. 2025/10/31 CEC adopts the election calendar (622nd commission meeting) （Done）
  2. 2026/08/20 Official election announcement （Done）
  3. 2026/08/31–09/04 Candidate registration （Done）
  4. By 2026/10/16 Candidate list review （Done）
  5. 2026/10/23 Ballot number draw Up next
  6. 2026/11/12 · 11/17 Candidate lists published (municipal mayors first)
  7. 2026/11/28 Voting day
  8. 2026/12/04 Winners officially announced
See the full election timeline

Schedule per the CEC’s 622nd commission meeting. Voting hours and final seat counts follow the official announcement of 2026-08-20.

Nine offices vote on the same day

“Nine-in-one” means nine categories of local office are elected on the same day: from special municipality and county mayors down to village chiefs, and from councilors and representatives to Indigenous district offices.

In total 11,051 officials elected CEC press release

  • Special municipality mayors

    6

    Mayors of the six special municipalities, four-year terms

  • Special municipality councilors

    381

    Council representatives in the six municipalities; seats vary by city

  • County and city magistrates / mayors

    16

    Executives of non-special-municipality counties and cities

  • County and city councilors

    538

    Representatives in county and city councils

  • Township, town, and city chiefs

    198

    Heads of grassroots self-governing units

  • Township, town, and city representatives

    2,076

    Grassroots elected representatives

  • Mountain Indigenous district chiefs

    6

    Autonomous Indigenous district executives established in 2014

  • Mountain Indigenous district representatives

    50

    Representatives of autonomous Indigenous districts

  • Village and borough chiefs

    7,780

    Taiwan’s most local elected offices

Seats for special municipality mayors, county and city mayors, and both types of councilors follow the CEC election announcement of 2026-08-20; the other five categories follow the CEC press release of 2026-09-07. Across all nine categories, 11,051 officials will be elected.

Pages in this guide

Four sides of the same election, each on its own page.

Further reading and civic tools

About this guide

Taiwan.md's role in this election

We do not report campaign news, publish polls, or endorse candidates.

We place this election back inside three decades of democratic infrastructure: how the nine offices work, how political donations become transparent, why Taiwan has 7,780 village and borough chiefs, how the Central Election Commission is structured, and how recalls and referendums operate.

Voting is the last-mile action of democracy. The institutions, civic oversight tools, and information infrastructure underneath it are what keep democracy standing.

This section keeps documenting how that infrastructure grows, who maintains it, and where it can break.

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