Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Lin Wei-chou (林為洲) on Saturday narrowly won the party’s primary to run for mayor in Hsinchu County’s Jhubei City (竹北市) in November’s local elections.
Lin won 52 percent of the vote, edging out his only opponent, Jhubei City Council Chairman Lin Chi-hsien (林啟賢), who garnered 48 percent of the vote.
The primary was carried out via two surveys conducted by the United Daily News and Shih Hsin University from Wednesday to Friday, with each survey collecting about 1,000 responses, the party said.
Following his victory, Lin Wei-chou took to social media to thank the city’s residents for their
Hsinchu, May 21 (CNA) Kuomintang (KMT) Legislator Lin Wei-chou (林為洲) narrowly won the main opposition party's primary Saturday for mayor of Zhubei City, a township-level city in Hsinchu County.