Recently, there has been a message circulating on social media platforms that "the total number of votes for the election of Kaohsiung mayor and city councilors does not match, with a difference of 140,000 votes." After verification, some of the content is wrong.

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[Instant News/Comprehensive Report] Recently, there has been a message circulating on social media that "the total number of votes for Kaohsiung mayor and city councilor elections does not match, with a difference of 140,000 votes".

After verification, the fact-checking platform pointed out that there were some errors in the online content.

The "Fact Check Report" released by "TFC Taiwan Fact Check Center" on the 2nd of this month pointed out that since November 29, there has been a message on the social platform that "the total number of votes for Kaohsiung mayor and city councilor elections does not match, with a difference of 140,000 votes". The online content questioned that as many as 145,000 people in Kaohsiung City only voted for mayor, but did not vote for councilors, did not announce the total number of invalid votes in the city, and Chen Qimai got more votes than all non-blue councilors combined.

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The inspection center reviewed the information on the Central Election Committee website. The total number of effective votes for Kaohsiung mayoral candidates was 1,318,733, and the number of votes for city councilors was 1,309,687. The actual difference between the two is 9,046 votes, which is inconsistent with the 140,000 votes reported online.

In addition, the number of invalid votes for the election of mayors and councilors can be checked on the election accountant vote inquiry website.

Regarding the discrepancy between the total number of votes won by the mayor and city councilors, Li Xibing, deputy director-general of the Kaohsiung City Election Committee, explained that the mayor elects more people than city councilors because the population in the metropolitan area moves more frequently. The mayor’s voting rights will not change, but it may be due to registration Less than 4 months to affect the voting rights of city councilors.

As for the online rumor that Chen Qimai got more votes than the total number of DPP members, Liao Daqi, a professor at the Institute of Political Science at Sun Yat-sen University, believes that Chen Qimai’s high number of votes shows that he has absorbed votes from non-DPP supporters. Progress, Power of the Times, and Taiwan United Alliance, these political parties did not launch mayoral candidates this time, so voters may vote for Chen Qimai as mayor.

Based on the above information, the Fact Checking Center determined that the online news that "the total number of votes for Kaohsiung mayor and city councilor elections does not match, with a difference of 140,000 votes" is partly wrong.