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2016 Taiwanese legislative election

2016 Taiwanese legislative election

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Legislative elections were held in Taiwan on 16 January 2016 to elect all 113 members in the Legislative Yuan, alongside presidential elections. The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) led by Tsai Ing-wen, who also won the presidential election on the same day, secured a majority for the first time in history by winning 68 seats. The ruling Kuomintang (KMT) lost both the presidency and its legislative majority and returned to the opposition.

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The DPP managed to unseat the KMT in its traditional blue strongholds across Taiwan, turning districts in Taipei, Taichung and Hualien green, while KMT Vice Chairman Hau Lung-bin conceded defeat to relatively unknown city councilor Tsai Shih-ying from the DPP, becoming one of the most notable upsets in the election. The year-old New Power Party (NPP), founded by young activists in the wake of the 2014 Sunflower Movement, entered the Legislative Yuan, winning five seats from KMT veterans.[2]

Electoral system

Members were elected by parallel voting.

Contesting parties and candidates

The two major parties, the Kuomintang and the Democratic Progressive Party, used different strategies when nominating candidates for the Legislative Yuan elections. The Kuomintang nominated a candidate in all but one of the constituency seats.[3] The sole exception was Taipei 2, where they instead supported the New Party candidate. The DPP, on the other hand, developed a cooperation strategy with several minor parties. The DPP agreed to support candidates from these parties in exchange for agreements not to stand in tight races where they might sap DPP votes. These included the New Power Party, the Taiwan Solidarity Union, and the Green-Social Democratic Coalition, as well as several independents.[4][5] This strategy did not work in Hsinchu, where the NPP and DPP backed separate candidates.[6] A total of 43 female candidates won election to the Legislative Yuan, the most ever to take office.[7]

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Opinion polls

Nationwide polling for the Taiwan legislator-at-large election (party vote) of 2016.

Single and multi member districts

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Proportional representation

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Results

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By constituency

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Source: Central Election Commission

Results by party-list

Aftermath

Kuomintang Vice Chairman Hau Lung-bin announced he was stepping down after his surprising defeat in the Keelung City Constituency by relatively unknown city councillor Tsai Shih-ying from the DPP, following the Party Chairman Eric Chu resigned from the leadership after his defeat in the presidential election.[13]

By-elections

A total of five legislative seats are scheduled to be contested in by-elections, as both the Kuomintang and Democratic Progressive Party drew candidates for local office from sitting legislators during the 2018 local elections. The first two by-elections are scheduled for 26 January 2019.[14][15]

See also

Notes

  1. District and aboriginal electorate; party-list electorate size was 18,786,940
  2. District and aboriginal electorate; party-list voter turnout was 66.25%
  3. Party-list election
  4. Did not stand in the party-list election in 2012

References

  1. "中選會資料庫網站". cec.gov.tw (in Chinese). Retrieved 29 January 2020.
  2. Chow, Jermyn (17 January 2016). "Historic change as KMT loses long-held Parliament majority". The Straits Times. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
  3. 第 09 屆 立法委員選舉(區域) 候選人得票數 (in Chinese), Central Election Commission
  4. Loa, Iok-sin (10 December 2015). "DPP approves list of candidates outside the party to support". Taipei Times.
  5. Loa, Iok-sin (8 January 2016). "Chen Chien-jen stumps for candidates in Taipei". Taipei Times. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  6. Gerber, Abraham (26 November 2015). "NPP candidate registers for Hsinchu seat race". Taipei Times. Retrieved 16 May 2016.
  7. Wen, Kuei-hsiang; Huang, Frances (30 January 2016). "Taiwan's new legislature to have more female lawmakers, become younger". Central News Agency. Archived from the original on 31 January 2016. Retrieved 30 January 2016. Alt URL
  8. "黨章 – 中華統一促進黨". china999.org. Archived from the original on 29 September 2018. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
  9. 林瑋豐 (17 August 2015). "綠黨社民黨聯盟成立 「淘汰國民黨,制衡民進黨」". 風傳媒. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
  10. "新黨公布不分區立委:葉毓蘭第一、邱毅第二" (in Chinese). Liberty Times Net. 26 November 2015. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  11. Li, Shu-hua; Ko, Lin (30 November 2018). "Two legislative by-elections to be held on Jan. 26, 2019: CEC". Central News Agency. Retrieved 1 December 2018.
  12. "Legislative by-elections set for Jan. 26". Taipei Times. 2 December 2018. Retrieved 2 December 2018.

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