Incumbent KMT Taoyuan mayor leads latest poll by just 4.1%｜Formosa English News

Bilingual text here: https://english.ftvnews.com.tw/news/2026B10W06EA?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=description 雙語文字版: https://english.ftvnews.com.tw/news/2026B10W06EA?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=description Our official website: ➔ https://english.ftvnews.com.tw/ Follow us on Facebook: ➔ https://www.facebook.com/ftvformosanews X (Twitter): ➔ https://x.com/FTV_Taiwan_News Mayor Chang San-cheng is leading the latest poll for the Taoyuan mayoral race. The KMT incumbent had 36.9% of support in the city. That’s just a short 4.1 percentage points ahead of the DPP challenger, Huang Shih-chieh, who has 32.8%. Let’s hear from the two. Huang Shih-chieh Taoyuan City Mayoral Candidate (DPP) I think we should continue doing what we’re doing and push forward in the right direction, so that more voters can get to know us. I think the people of Taoyuan can tell there is a huge gap between Cheng Wen-tsan’s policies, which propelled Taoyuan forward, and the KMT’s Chang San-cheng’s past four years in office. I hope we can get the opportunity to restore Taoyuan to its glory. Chang San-cheng Taoyuan Mayor (KMT) No matter how high or low we rank in the polls, or how much of a margin there is between us. I will make an effort until the very end. The thing is, our administration is not partisan. You can all see that if a DPP councilor makes a good suggestion, we adopt it. So changing the ruling party is not an issue. We can just stay in power and keep going. Changing the ruling party is not necessarily significant. In the poll, 56.4% of respondents said they thought Chang had a better chance at winning the election than Huang. Only 14.8% believed Huang had the better chance. But also, 33.8% of respondents said they were in favor of letting the other party in power to see what they can do. That was 2.8 percentage points ahead of those who favored letting the KMT stay in power. The analyst who conducted the poll, Tai Li-an, says the narrow margin between the two candidates could be in part due to a boost in support for the DPP candidate from Puma Shen’s mayoral campaign in Taipei. For more Taiwan news, tune in: Mon to Fri at 9:30 pm on Channel 152 Tue to Sat at 1 am on Channel 53 #taoyuan #election #votes #張善政 #黃世杰 #台灣新聞 #FormosaEnglishNews #民視新聞 #FTV新聞 #Taiwan