Taiwan's Yunlin county magistrate race is set with four names on the ballot, and the fight is being framed as ordinary residents versus one powerful local family.

• Registration for the 2026 local elections closed with four people signed up to run Yunlin county.
• DPP candidate Liu Chien-kuo walked to the election office with hundreds of supporters and pitched "resident politics, not family politics."
• His rivals are KMT candidate Chang Chia-chun, lawyer Wu Ping-hui, and dentist Lin Chia-yu, who is trying for the fourth time.
• Liu is running on a jobs, healthcare, transport, and farm-income platform, and says twelve years of work from local council to parliament have prepared him.

Outlook: Expect the campaign to turn on whether voters see the KMT side as entrenched family power, with the vote part of Taiwan's nationwide local elections.