This could be seen as a heat for the upcoming elections for city and county executives across Taiwan at the end of 1997. After their defeat, the Kuomintang (KMT) and New Party (NP) assessed the results to come up with a new approach to the year-end elections.
此戰可說是年底縣市長選舉的熱身賽，敗戰的國民黨與新黨選後隨即展開全面檢討，做為年底選舉的殷鑑。