With the Taipei mayoral race entering its final stretch, the seat-count calculations behind KMT–TPP cooperation and the DPP's offensive are heating up at the same time — pressure for the incumbent KMT city government, and an opening for the challengers.

• DPP candidate Puma Shen has focused his campaign on the argument that policies from former mayor Ko Wen-je's term, such as traffic improvements and food safety tracking, have been discontinued under Chiang Wan-an.
• Chiang responded that city governance is a relay race, stressing that Taipei's Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize was the cumulative work of successive mayors and their teams, including Ko Wen-je's team.
• The KMT's Taipei chapter has decided that Chiang will not appear at individual campaign events for TPP candidates, taking part only in joint rallies; some TPP councillors are reported to feel this amounts to being thrown a handout.
• Chiang has called for maximising the combined KMT–TPP seat count and for "brothers climbing the mountain together," but dodged questions about the details of vote allocation.

Outlook: With the nine-in-one elections approaching, the KMT and TPP have yet to reach agreement on how to divide councillor votes, and Shen is expected to keep invoking Ko Wen-je's record to squeeze Chiang from both sides.