This year, as the nominating process was just getting underway, Kuomintang party cadres in Taipei organized a "straw ballot" to assess the popularity of the fifty-one possible candidates with party members in the district.
因此今年在展開提名作業之初，台北市黨部便發出通知書，除向黨員報告提名原則外，並請台北市近十萬的黨員表示意見，針對爭取提名的五十一位候選人進行「假投票」；並實施幹部評選，由七千多位黨務幹部為這些候選人評分。提名作業頗受好評