For the DPP, former party treasurer Hsu Ming-te, who was accused of vote buying in the party elections to choose candidates to become non-constituency legislators, claimed he pulled out of the DPP to run as an independent because he had been oppressed by his own party. The KMT also came under fire from expelled candidate Chen Je-nan as he made the most of his "oppressed image."
以民進黨而言，前中央黨部財務長徐明德因為被指參加黨內不分區代表時賄選，而以「黨內迫害」為由退黨參選；國民黨也有被開除黨籍的陳哲男頻頻砲打母黨，凸顯自己的「被迫害形象」。