Taiwan votes on November 28, 2026 in its biggest local election, a contest widely read as the first real test of the three main parties before the 2028 presidential race.

• Voters pick nine kinds of local officials on the same day, from big-city mayors down to village chiefs, with most people getting three to five ballots.
• Anyone 20 or older who has been registered at an address in the district for four months can vote, and they must vote where they are registered, not where they live.
• More than half the map is up for grabs: 13 of 22 city and county leaders are term-limited, forcing a wave of new faces.
• The KMT is defending its 2022 sweep and leaning on incumbents, the DPP is fighting to hold the big cities, and the small TPP is picking a few key battles and teaming up with the KMT.
• New Taipei is the marquee fight, where the KMT's Li Si-chuan leads the DPP's Su Chiao-hui by only a couple of points after the blue-white deal pushed TPP chair Huang Kuo-chang aside.

Outlook: Candidate registration has just closed, so the campaign now moves into ballot-number draws and public debates, with New Taipei, Yilan and Hsinchu the seats most likely to decide who claims momentum going into 2028.