The age of organized campaigns: Local government elections in Taiwan began in 1950. At that time, the island was still an agricultural society, and most voters were neither well educated nor well informed, so that it was only a few country gentry and figures of popular trust in local communities who were interested in getting involved in local affairs.
台灣地區的地方自治選舉始於民國卅九年，當時台灣尚處農業社會，一般選民的知識水準不高，因此對地方事務有參與意識的都是些鄉紳、或鄰里間素孚眾望的人物。