Taiwan

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Last updated: 27 October 2026. Map the General Editorial Team.

This hub describes Taiwan’s local public-office elections on Saturday 28 November 2026. The Central Election Commission’s report to the Legislative Yuan, dated 16 July 2026, says the Commission’s 622nd meeting on 31 October 2025 set that Saturday. The report calls the election the local public-office elections of ROC year 115. This page uses the date the report prints. There are no municipality pages.

Who may vote is set out in the Civil Servants Election and Recall Act. A citizen of the Republic of China who has reached the age of 20 has the right to vote. The voter also needs at least four consecutive months of residence in the electoral district. A person who moves into the district after the election notice has no suffrage for that election. Voting is at the polling station for the registered domicile, unless the Act provides otherwise. A worker at a station in the same municipality or county may vote at the station where they work or at the domicile station. The voter presents a national identification card to receive a ballot. A person must arrive during the hours specified for voting. Someone who arrives late is not admitted. Someone already inside may still vote.

The report’s timetable, read on 27 October 2026, runs as follows. The election notice was 20 August 2026. The candidate-registration notice was 27 August 2026. Registration applications were accepted from 31 August through 4 September 2026. The candidate list was to be settled, and the draw notified, by 16 October 2026. The ballot-number draw was 23 October 2026. The electoral roll is to be completed on 8 November 2026. A public notice of special-municipality mayoral candidates is set for 12 November 2026, with presentations from 13 through 27 November 2026. A public notice of special-municipality councillors, county and city mayors, and county and city councillors is set for 17 November 2026, with presentations from 18 through 27 November 2026. The report sets an elector-number notice by 24 November 2026. Polling and the count are on 28 November 2026. A notice of the people elected is set for 4 December 2026.

The same report says commissions had reported, by 30 April 2026, an expected 18,227 polling stations. It says that is 578 more than the 17,649 stations of the ROC year 111 local elections and constitutional referendum, and 395 more than the 17,832 stations of the ROC year 114 national referendum. The report marks those 18,227 stations as expected. It does not print an opening hour or a closing hour, so this page does not supply one. No count is shown here before 00:00 on 29 November 2026, Taiwan time. That instant is the start of the next calendar day, not a clock time the Commission printed.

The pages read on 27 October 2026 did not include a published name list. Names belong on this site only when a Commission notice is the text being linked. The previous local election’s polling day appears in the title of a Commission notice as Saturday 26 November 2022, ROC year 111. This page does not copy a vote count from that election. Article 53 of the Act says that from ten days before election day until the polls close, no party or person may report, disseminate, comment on, or quote the survey material in the two paragraphs before that sentence. The Act counts a day-before-election-day period by starting on the day before election day and counting backwards. Ten days before 28 November 2026 therefore begins on 18 November 2026. This site publishes no survey figure and no projection at any time.

Sources for this preview

• Central Election Commission, report to the Legislative Yuan, 16 July 2026
• Civil Servants Election and Recall Act, English text
• Civil Servants Election and Recall Act, Article 53
• Central Election Commission