[Taiwan Presidential Election] Tsai Ing-wen 57% vs Han Kuo-yu 38%... Gap Widens
[Asia Economy Taipei (Taiwan) = Special Correspondent Park Sun-mi] On the 11th, the voting for Taiwan's 15th presidential election (general election) was smoothly completed, and incumbent Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidate President Tsai Ing-wen is leading by a large margin, making her election highly likely.
As of 5:55 PM local time, President Tsai has received 3,634,900 votes (57.6%), while her competitor, Kuomintang (KMT) Kaohsiung Mayor Han Kuo-yu, has received 2,400,600 votes (38%). The vote difference between the two candidates has widened to over 1 million votes.
Forty minutes after the counting began, the vote difference between the two candidates was only about 400,000 votes, but the gap has been expanding as time passes.
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Voting took place from 8 AM to 4 PM, and the Taiwan Election Commission predicted that the counting would be completed around 10 PM that night, allowing the election results to be announced.
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