Taiwan election: Early counting suggests close race in Taiwan, reports say - BBC

I have been in four classrooms here at the Xinyi District Elementary School, where they are tallying votes.

In two of them, the main opposition Kuomintang and its candidate Hou Yu-ih are leading by a substantial margin.

In the other two, the other opposition candidate Ko Wen-je is ahead, by perhaps a less substantial margin.

The ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) does not seem to be winning. It’s not surprising because this is not a DPP district at all.

Of course, it's too early to tell and this is only one polling station.

But this is a KMT stronghold. They should be cleaning up in this district. If this was a two party race they would be well ahead.

It looks to me as if Ko Wen-je is getting a substantial number of votes in this district.

And he is probably taking them largely from the KMT - and that means, as expected, the third party candidate (in this case Ko) could decide the election.

This is what the KMT has been saying to voters - a vote for Ko is a vote that will allow DPP to win, because Ko's support will likely cut into the KMT's strongholds.

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