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The elected as executive officers in local governments are very important actors in local administration and local politics. Most previous studies as to them focused on their personal traits to explain who were elected and what kinds of policies they produced, but they did not synthesized various studies and theories systematically as one model, so this made those researches fragmentary and the implications of the results limited descriptively. Based on it, this paper tried to build an integrated model for research on the elected. Our integrated model, in this paper, is composed by three steps and in each steps the elected's personal traits are used as an independent and dependent variable. The model included several moderate variables in each steps, such as the Party governance and partisan's traits, election ratio, the competence of local government etc, to measure and explain the influence of personal traits of the elected on dependent variables. Then this paper analyzed five traits of the elected from the 1st to the 5th local election descriptively and proposed several implications for the model and future research.