The Democratic Progressive Party's (DPP's) legislative whip said Monday that the opposition party lost votes because of the election eve shooting of a popular Kuomintang figure. 'The shooting scared away about 10 percent of the swing voters (from the DPP) , ' said DPP legislative caucus head Pan Men-an, in response to a media report that the incident influenced about 5 percent of voters. Lien Sheng-wen, the eldest son of former Vice President Lien Chan, was shot in the face while stumping for a KMT Taipei County councilor candidate at a rally Friday night, sustaining fractured cheek bones and two open wounds. Pan also said that based on an internal analysis by the DPP the shooting had the biggest influence on voters in the mayoral elections in Taipei City, Xinbei City (to be upgraded from Taipei County) and greater Taichung City. According to pre-election polls by Global Views Monthly and other media, the DPP's situation appeared strong, Pan said, but 'a bullet twisted the election results.' In its final poll released only after polling stations closed on Saturday (because election laws prevent any polls from being made public in the final 10 days before Election Day) , Global Views had the KMT trailing in one of the three cities where Pan said the shooting had an influence. The KMT's Eric Liluan Chu was shown losing to the DPP's Tsai Ing-wen by 2.2 percentage points, but he won the election with 52.61 percent of the ballots cast, compared to Tsai's 47.39 percent. In Taipei, the poll had KMT Mayor Hau Lung-bin defeating challenger Su Tseng- chang by 2.1 percentage points, but Hau ended up winning by an 11.8-point margin. In Taichung, on the other hand, there was almost no shift pre- and post- election. Taichung City Mayor Jason Hu of the KMT had a narrow 1.2 percentage point lead in the publication's polls, and he won by a 2.2-point margin over the DPP's Su Jia-chyuan. KMT Secretary-General King Pu-tsung, who orchestrated the party's campaign, said there was no scientific evidence to prove that the shooting incident prompted swing voters to favor the KMT in the polls or to what extent it influenced election results,' King insisted, however, that his party had not 'played up' the shooting incident for election gains, as some members of the DPP charged. The junior Lien, who is also a member of the KMT Central Committee, is now recovering after undergoing emergency surgery at National Taiwan University Hospital Friday night. 