Evident costs: According to provisional media statistics, the budgets for relatively well-heeled candidates averaged around NT $ 10 million. With a conservative estimate of there being 200 such candidates, the total spent by them amounted to at least NT $ 2 billion.
根據媒體的粗略估計，有財力的候選人，競選經費如果平均為一千萬台幣，再保守地以兩百人計算，候選人在選戰期間最少就可花掉廿億元以上。