Hsu Yang-ming, deputy secretary-general of the DPP, says that traditional local powers-that-be-groups built around organized crime, collusion between officials and businessmen, and local factions-are now more like powers-that-were. Across the entire country from north to south, these local political forces, which have always had a pivotal role in legislative elections, are being weakened, and they appear much less capable of mobilizing voters in the traditional manner.
民進黨副秘書長許陽明就自豪地說，一向暗藏黑金的地方政治勢力，在此次選舉中全面式微。全省從南到北，不管什麼黑派、白派、黃派、林派，以往在區域立委選舉中舉足輕重的地方大老紛紛淡出政壇，傳統選戰的組織動員也威力大減。