Editing Chen Shui-bian (section)

==Taipei mayoralty, 1994–1998==
Chen was elected as the mayor of [[Taipei]] in 1994, largely as the result of a vote split between the KMT incumbent [[Huang Ta-chou]] and the KMT-spin-off [[New Party (Taiwan)|New Party]] (NP) candidate [[Jaw Shaw-kong]]. Unable to find experienced bureaucrats from his own party, Chen and his inner circle of young law school graduates retained many of the KMT administrators and delegated considerable authority.

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! colspan="7" |1994 Taipei City mayoral election result
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!  style="background:#e9e9e9; width:13em;"| Candidate
!  style="background:#e9e9e9; width:6em;"| Votes
! colspan="2" style="background:#e9e9e9; width:11em;"| Percentage
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|align=left| [[File:Independent candidate icon (TW).svg|25px]] Independent
|align=center| 1
|align=left| [[Ji Rong-zhi]] (紀榮治)
|align=right| 3,941
|align=right| 0.28%
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|align=left| [[File:Np logo.png|25px]] [[New Party (Taiwan)|New Party]]
|align=center| 2
|align=left| [[Jaw Shaw-kong]]
|align=right| 424,905
|align=right| 30.17%
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|align=left|'''[[Democratic Progressive Party]]'''
|align=center| '''3'''
|align=left| '''Chen Shui-bian'''
|align=right| '''615,090'''
|align=right| '''43.67%'''
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|align=left| [[File:Emblem of the Kuomintang.svg|25px]] [[Kuomintang]]
|align=center| 4
|align=left| [[Huang Ta-chou]]
|align=right| 364,618
|align=right| 25.89%
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| colspan="4" style="text-align:right;"|'''Total'''
|align=right|'''1,408,554'''
| style="text-align:right;" colspan="2"|'''100.00%'''
|-  style="background:#eee; text-align:right;"
| colspan="4"| Voter turnout
| colspan="3" style="text-align:right;"|
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During his term, Chen received accolades for his campaigns to drive [[Gambling in Taiwan#Illegal gambling|illegal gambling]] and [[Prostitution in Taiwan|prostitution rackets out of Taipei]]. He levied large fines on polluters and reformed public works contracts. Chen renamed many of the roads in Taipei, most notably the road which runs between KMT headquarters to the Presidential Palace from Chieh-shou Road ({{lang|zh|介壽路}}) to [[Ketagalan Boulevard]] in an effort to acknowledge the [[Taiwanese aboriginal|aboriginal people]] of the Taipei basin. Chen also made highly publicized evictions of longtime KMT squatters on municipal land, and ordered [[Chiang Wei-kuo]]'s estate demolished. Chen was also named one of Asia's rising stars, and Taipei became one of the top 50 cities in Asia according to ''[[Time Asia]]'' magazine.

Despite receiving more votes both in absolute and in percentage terms than his 1994 campaign, Chen lost the mayoral election of 1998 to the KMT's candidate and future president [[Ma Ying-jeou]] in large part because the KMT was able to gain the support of New Party supporters. In his first autobiography, "The Son of Taiwan", Chen wrote that he was not entirely upset about losing the re-election as it gave him opportunity to find out what areas in his political career he could improve. For example, he wrote that mainland Chinese people generally approved of his social and economic improvements in Taipei, but they ultimately voted for Ma because of ethnic tensions.

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! colspan="7" |1998 Taipei City mayoral election result
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!  style="background:#e9e9e9; width:13em;"| Candidate
!  style="background:#e9e9e9; width:6em;"| Votes
! colspan="2" style="background:#e9e9e9; width:11em;"| Percentage
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| style="background:#009a00;"|
|align=left|[[Democratic Progressive Party]]
|align=center| 1
|align=left|Chen Shui-bian
|align=right| 688,072
|align=right| 45.91%
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|align=left| [[File:Emblem of the Kuomintang.svg|25px]] '''[[Kuomintang]]'''
|align=center| '''2'''
|align=left|'''[[Ma Ying-jeou]]'''
|align=right| '''766,377'''
|align=right| '''51.13%'''
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|align=left| [[New Party (Taiwan)|New Party]]
|align=center| 3
|align=left|[[Wang Chien-shien]]
|align=right| 44,452
|align=right| 2.97%
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| colspan="4" style="text-align:right;"|'''Total'''
|align=right|'''1,498,901'''
| style="text-align:right;" colspan="2"|'''100.00%'''
|-  style="background:#eee; text-align:right;"
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He also traveled extensively nationwide and abroad. In South Korea, he met with president [[Kim Dae-jung]], who presented him with an award.<ref>{{cite web |date=30 March 2000 |title=천수이볜의 한국사랑 빛을 볼 것인가 |trans-title=Will Chen Shui-bian's love for Korea come to light? |url=http://legacy.h21.hani.co.kr/h21/data/L000320/05a93k0n.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220830134550/http://legacy.h21.hani.co.kr/h21/data/L000320/05a93k0n.html |archive-date=30 August 2022 |access-date=30 August 2022 |newspaper=The Hankyoreh}}</ref> He also met with Japanese prime minister [[Yoshiro Mori]], who promised that he would celebrate if he won the 2000 presidential elections. Due to political complications, this promise was not fulfilled until late 2003. {{citation needed|date=January 2013}}