Following on the fall in the DPP's fortunes in the three-in-one elections at the end of 2005, and the First Lady's being implicated in the scandal over expenditures from the special state affairs fund for discretionary use by the president, at least the DPP was able to hold on to one of Taiwan's two major cities in this election.
民進黨在經歷 2005 年底三合一大選失利、第一夫人身陷國務機要費風暴後，似乎已藉著此次開出平盤的選戰扳回一城。