Abstract
On 2 December 1989, voters on Taiwan cast ballots to elect national legislators(lifaweiyuan), provincial and city representatives(sheng/shiyiyuari)and county executives(xianzhang). Though the Nationalist Party (KMT) received 59 per cent of the overall vote, the election was widely viewed as a surprising success for the fledgling opposition party, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), since the KMT had polled over 70 per cent of the vote in all previous elections. James Soong, Secretary-General of the KMT, announced after an emergency meeting of the shocked KMT leadership, “We calmly accept an upset.”
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