Don’t forget to keep your guesses for the theme contest coming in. I won’t be announcing the winner or correct answer until the end of the month, so there’s still plenty of time to try your luck and plenty of photos to come.

Pictured above are Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九), president of Taiwan (ROC), vice president Vincent Siew (蕭萬長) and KMT chairman Wo Po-hsiung (吳伯雄).

The 2008 election season in Taiwan came to an unsurprising conclusion on March 22nd with a resounding win to the KMT (中國國民黨) candidates Ma Ying jeou (馬英九) and running mate Vincent Siew (蕭萬長), ending eight years of DPP rule. Ma and Siew, whose winning margin was 17%, will take office on May 20th, 2008. There’s more than enough commentary and analysis of the election on various media sites and blogs, so I’ll just show you a few pictures from the post-election party in Taipei.

All photos ©Craig Ferguson Images. Photos taken by Craig Ferguson and Selina Tseng.

Sunday March 16 saw the last weekend rallies for the 2008 Presidential Election take place. In cities all over Taiwan, hundreds of thousands came up to support their preferred party. The DPP’s main rally in Taipei started at Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall under the slogan “A Million Giving High-Fives to Reverse the Tide”. The KMT’s Taipei rally began across the road at the old Songshan Tobacco Factory with the slogan “Taiwan Moves Forward”. Both parties supporters proceeded to march through the streets of Taipei. Here’s a few images from the day, starting with the KMT.

And the DPP.