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ROBUST SUPPORT: Data from the Tainan City Election Commission showed that residents cast about 160,000 to 180,000 more ‘no’ than ‘yes’ votes on each referendumBy Hung Jui-chin, Wang Shu-hsiu and William Hetherington / Staff reporters, with staff writer
Sixty-three percent of the votes cast by Tainan residents in the four referendums on Saturday were “no” votes the highest rate of any county or municipality.
Prior to the vote, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) had urged people to vote “no” on all four referendum questions, while the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) urged people to vote “yes” on all four.
On Saturday, 41.08 percent of Tainan residents voted, according to data compiled by the Tainan City Election Commission, and they cast about 160,000 to 180,000 more “no” votes than “yes” votes on each referendum question.
In Tainan, 415,776 people voted “no” (64.13