林明溱縣長於2014年12月就職第一任迄今比較發現，南投縣政府客觀競爭力在教育與文化、公共安全與消防表現較佳，但是在經濟與就業、環保與環境品質、治安、醫療衛生、生活品質與現代化、社會福利的競爭力較弱，連帶拖累南投縣政府的總體競爭力。所以在客觀競爭力方面，南投縣政府必須努力強化經濟與就業、環保（空汙）、治安、醫療衛生、生活品質與現代化與社會福利等六大施政方向。若以就職第二任的2019年資料分析，南投縣政府在公安消防面向的競爭力位居前段，教育與文化面向則位居中段，其餘各面向都在後段班，連帶縣市競爭力總體表現也屬後段班，南投縣政府的客觀競爭力實屬弱勢，值得縣民警惕。其次是南投縣民主觀滿意度感受，綜合過去五年遠見雜誌所做民意調查發現，南投縣民感到最不滿意的縣政是「經濟與就業」，其次是「警政治安」與「道路與交通」。因此，南投縣政府最需加強的單位是負責招商與經濟的「建設處」、負責就業的「社會及勞動處」、負責治安的「警察局」、以及負責道路與交通的「工務處」。另外根據天下雜誌幸福指數主客觀綜合調查，南投縣政府於2015-2019年間各項幸福指數面向，其中除了文教力面向的表現較佳，稍具競爭力外，環境力的表現最弱，其他面向表現都差不多，都是在中後段班左右，而施政力面向的表現相對也較弱；最後幸福指數總排名面向只有在2018年列為中段班，其餘年度都列為後段班。綜合上述主觀施政滿意度民調結果與客觀競爭力與幸福指數統計資料調查分析，南投縣政府在近程方面最需加強的是警政治安面向、以及經濟及就業面向；南投縣政府在中程方面需強化的是道路與交通、環境力與施政力等三大面向。

Since the commissioner Lin Mingxuan inaugurated his first term in December 2014, it finds that the objective competitiveness of the Nantou County Government is better in education and culture, public safety and firefighting, but is less competitive in economy and employment, environmental protection and environmental quality, public security, health care, quality of life and modernization, and social welfare, then hurt her overall competitiveness. Therefore, the Nantou County Government must strive to strengthen the economy and employment, environmental protection (air pollution), public security, health care, quality of life and modernization and social welfare dimensions. However, according to the recent 6 polls datasets analyses in the Global Vision Magazine, it shows that Nantou County people are most dissatisfied with ＂economic and employment＂, followed by ＂police public security＂ and ＂roads and traffic＂. Therefore, the most important units are the Construction Department, which is responsible for investment and economy, the Social and Labor Department, which is responsible for employment, the Police Department, responsible for public security, and the Public Works Department, which is responsible for roads and traffic. If the Nantou County Government could continue to work on important issues and strengthen the performance marketing, Commissioner Lin should be successfully re-elected. As matter of fact, the Commissioner Lin won 194,172 ballots, which is 66.63% in the local election on November 24, 2018. Since Commissioner Lin inaugurated his second term in December 2018, there have been two existed polls showing relatively stabilizing satisfaction.