1939 Taiwanese local elections were held on 22 November 1939, electing half of the city and township councillors for the second time under Japanese rule. The other half were appointed by the prefectural governors. After the authorities highlighting the solemnity and idealness of an election under the current situation, the cities banned door-to-door election campaign and advocated using less publications to reduce waste. The number of eligible voters on the island increased around 60% to 326,229. Although more seats were opened for election comparing with the last time, there were less candidates. All Japanese mainlanders were elected in Shoka (now

Changhua Changhua (Hokkien POJ: ''Chiong-hòa'' or ''Chiang-hòa''), officially known as Changhua City, is a county-administered city and the county seat of Changhua County in Taiwan Province of the Republic of China. For many centuries the site was h ...

Tainan Tainan (), officially Tainan City, is a Special municipality (Taiwan), special municipality in southern Taiwan facing the Taiwan Strait on its western coast. Tainan is the oldest city on the island and also commonly known as the "Capital City" ...

, Takao (now

Kaohsiung Kaohsiung City (Mandarin Chinese: ; Wade–Giles: ''Kao¹-hsiung²;'' Pinyin: ''Gāoxióng'') is a special municipality located in southern Taiwan. It ranges from the coastal urban center to the rural Yushan Range with an area of . Kaohsi ...

) and Heito (now Pingtung). With 315,580 casting the votes, the turnout was over 90% in all regions, slightly higher than the last election. The 1943 election was cancelled due to

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

, hence the tenure of the elected councillors were extended until the

surrender of Japan The surrender of the Empire of Japan in World War II was announced by Emperor Hirohito on 15 August and formally signed on 2 September 1945, bringing the war's hostilities to a close. By the end of July 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy ...

in 1945.

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