Six candidates are fighting for five seats in Tainan's Greater Beimen district, where a young newcomer is taking on five sitting councillors — a real contest in territory that normally leans green.

• The Greater Beimen seat (Xuejia, Beimen, Jiangjun, Jiali, Xigang, Qigu) has five slots and six runners, with all five incumbents seeking re-election.
• Newcomer Wang Shih-yuan, a seafood group executive and daughter of the Xuejia Ciji Temple chairman, is the wildcard, backed by her father's local network.
• The DPP is defending three seats there, including veterans chasing a sixth and an eighth term; the KMT is running just one candidate, and an independent lawyer draws votes from across party lines.
• In the Zengwen district (Xiaying, Liujia, Madou, Guantian, Danei), four candidates chase three seats after a long-serving councillor handed his base to his daughter.
• Both districts lean toward the DPP, with Jiali and Madou as the biggest vote pools.

Outlook: The races will likely turn on whether family-inherited local networks can beat decades of incumbent groundwork.