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Saturday 28 November 2026

Taiwan local elections

The Central Election Commission’s 622nd meeting set this Saturday. The report does not print opening or closing hours.

Last updated: 27 October 2026. Report an error

Editorial preview

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

What is at stake on Saturday 28 November 2026 is the local public-office elections. The Central Election Commission’s report to the Legislative Yuan is dated 16 July 2026. It says the 622nd meeting on 31 October 2025 fixed that Saturday. The report’s own name for the event is the ROC year 115 local elections. Readers should treat the printed Saturday as the polling day. This page does not calculate a different one, and it does not describe a presidential race. These are elections for local public office.

The franchise, in the Civil Servants Election and Recall Act, starts at age 20 for a citizen of the Republic of China. Residence of four consecutive months in the electoral district is also required. Moving in after the election notice leaves a person without suffrage for this election. The ordinary place of voting is the polling station of the registered domicile. The Act allows a worker at a station in the same municipality or county to vote at work or at the domicile station. A national identification card is shown before a ballot is issued. Arrival has to fall inside the hours specified for voting. A late arrival is not admitted. A person already inside may finish voting. When several elections share one station, the voter enters once.

Dates in the report, and not dates guessed around them, are these. Notice of the election: 20 August 2026. Notice of candidate registration: 27 August 2026. Applications: 31 August to 4 September 2026. Settlement of the list and notice of the draw: by 16 October 2026. The draw itself: 23 October 2026. The electoral roll completed: 8 November 2026. Mayoral candidates in the special municipalities noticed: 12 November 2026, with presentations from 13 to 27 November. Councillors, county and city mayors, and county and city councillors noticed: 17 November 2026, with presentations from 18 to 27 November. Elector numbers announced by 24 November 2026. Polling and the count: 28 November 2026. Notice of the people elected: 4 December 2026.

Station planning in that report is an expectation, not a final inventory. Commissions had reported by 30 April 2026 an expected 18,227 polling stations. The report compares that figure with 17,649 stations at the ROC year 111 local elections and constitutional referendum, a difference of 578, and with 17,832 stations at the ROC year 114 national referendum, a difference of 395. Hours are a separate gap. Neither an opening hour nor a closing hour is printed. This page therefore shows no count before 00:00 on 29 November 2026, Taiwan time, which is the next calendar day rather than a closing bell the Commission wrote down.

No candidate names were on the pages read on 27 October 2026. The draw on 23 October has already passed, and the public notices of names are the November dates above. Until those notices are the linked text, this page prints no ballot order. The previous polling day, taken from the title of a Commission notice, is Saturday 26 November 2022. No vote total from that day is repeated. From 18 November 2026, Article 53 bars any party or person from reporting, disseminating, commenting on, or quoting the survey material named in that article, and the bar runs until the polls close. The ten-day count uses the Act’s method of starting on the day before election day. This site prints no survey figure and no projection in any week of the campaign.

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What is being elected

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 polling for the local public-office elections on Saturday 28 November 2026. The report calls that election the ROC year 115 local elections. This page uses the date the report prints.

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Who votes, and how

The Civil Servants Election and Recall Act gives suffrage to a citizen of the Republic of China who has reached the age of 20, and requires 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. A voter votes 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. When several elections share a station, entry is once.

The report does not print an opening hour or a closing hour. This page does not supply one. No count is shown before 00:00 on 29 November 2026, Taiwan time. That instant is the start of the next calendar day. It is not a closing time the Commission printed.

The 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 figure 18,227 is marked as expected. It is not a final list of stations.

Candidates

The pages read on 27 October 2026 did not include a name list. The report sets registration applications from 31 August through 4 September 2026 and the ballot-number draw on 23 October 2026. The public notice of special-municipality mayoral candidates is 12 November 2026. The public notice of special-municipality councillors, county and city mayors, and county and city councillors is 17 November 2026. Names will be copied here when those notices are the text being linked. No ballot order is printed before that.

The previous election

The title of the Commission’s notice of the ROC year 111 local elections prints Saturday 26 November 2022 as the polling day of those elections and the constitutional-amendment referendum. This page does not copy a vote count from that election.

Survey material

Article 53 of the Civil Servants Election and Recall 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. Article 5 of the Act counts a date before election day by starting on the day before election day and counting backwards, so the ten days begin on 18 November 2026. This site publishes no survey figure and no projection.

The next section shows a countdown, and no count, until 00:00 on 29 November 2026, Taiwan time. A count is read only from a file on this site. That file lists nothing before that instant. If the file cannot be read, the section keeps the link to the Central Election Commission.

Election night

How to vote, key dates and official sources

Each date below is printed in the Commission’s report to the Legislative Yuan. A clock time that report did not print is not listed.

Frequently asked questions

When are Taiwan’s local elections?

The Legislative Yuan report says the Commission’s 622nd meeting on 31 October 2025 set polling for Saturday 28 November 2026.

Who can vote?

The Civil Servants Election and Recall Act gives suffrage to a citizen of the Republic of China who has reached the age of 20, and requires 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.

Where do voters cast a ballot?

The Civil Servants Election and Recall Act says a voter votes at the polling station for the registered domicile, unless the Act provides otherwise, and presents a national identification card to receive a ballot. The Legislative Yuan report does not print opening or closing hours, and this page does not supply them.

When will candidate names be published?

The Legislative Yuan report sets the public notice of special-municipality mayoral candidates for 12 November 2026 and the public notice of councillors, county and city mayors, and county and city councillors for 17 November 2026. The pages read on 27 October 2026 did not include a name list.

Does this site publish survey figures?

This site publishes no survey figure and no projection. Article 53 of the Civil Servants Election and Recall Act forbids any party or person, from ten days before election day until the polls close, to report, disseminate, comment on, or quote the survey material in the two paragraphs before that sentence. Counted under the Act’s rule for days before election day, those ten days begin on 18 November 2026.

When will results appear here?

The Legislative Yuan report does not print a closing hour, so this page lists no count before 00:00 on 29 November 2026, Taiwan time. After that instant, any figure in the official-results section is copied only from the Central Election Commission.

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