Taipei City's two constituencies yesterday became the first areas targeted by the DPP in its drive to achieve an even distribution of votes among its candidates in the Dec. 1 elections. The move comes after the party's secretary-general announced last week that it intended to adopt the strategy across the nation.
The DPP's hope is to maximize the chance of all the party's candidates getting elected. It targets all known party supporters in an area and has proven effective for both the DPP and the New Party in past legislative elections. The DPP's northern district general director Lin Cho-shui (
PHOTO: FANG PIN-CHAO, TAIPEI TIMES
The party estimates that a low voter turnout, combined with an unusually large number of candidates, will make for thin margins in the number of votes received per candidate. It believes that seeking a relatively even distribution of votes will help each of its candidates to receive a specific minimum number of votes.
Vote allocation -- the system used by the DPP -- involves requesting known individual supporters to vote for specific individual candidates.
According to a DPP survey, between 30 and 40 percent of the party's supporters are prepared to vote for the candidate for whom the party instructs them to vote. The party calculates that, given this survey result, each nominated candidate in Taipei's northern district is guaranteed 15,000 votes. It also estimates that a candidate would need to secure 34,000 votes to win election to the legislature.
The party said it will ask supporters to vote for different candidates depending on the supporter's national identity card number.
For instance, voters in Taipei City's northern district whose ID card numbers end in "one" or "two" are asked to vote for Lan Shih-tsung (
"Allocating votes will help to push individual candidates past the margin necessary for election," Lin said.
Julian Kuo (
"Whether the strategy proves effective will depend on whether voters have more faith in party politics than they do in individual candidates, and the degree of cooperation among the party's candidates in each individual constituency," Kuo said.
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