Elections in the Republic of China

Elections of the Republic of China (ROC) gives information on election and election results in the Republic of China (Chinese: 中華民國; pinyin: Zhōnghuá Mínguó) with effective control over Taiwan Area since 1949. The Republic of China elects on national level a head of state - the president - and a legislature. The president is elected for a four year term by the people. Prior to 2007, the Legislative Yuan (Lifa Yuan 立法院) had 225 members, 168 members elected for a three year term in multi-seat constituencies, 8 members representing the aboriginals, 41 members elected by proportional representation and 8 members representing the overseas Chinese elected by proportional representation. Amid 70% public support, the Legislative Yuan voted 217-1 on August 23, 2004 for a package of amendments to:

• halve the number of seats from 225 to 113
• switch to a single-member district parallel voting electoral system
• increase the terms of members from 3 to 4 years, to synchronize the legislative and presidential elections. (It is unclear whether this will be implemented for the next presidential and legislative elections with small parties opposing the move, because it would reduce their chances of getting better results)

The new electoral system will include 73 plurality seats (one for each electoral district), 6 seats for aboriginals, with the remaining 34 seats to be filled from party lists. Every county has a minimum of 1 electoral district, thereby guaranteed at least one seat in the legislature, while party lists for the proportionally represented seats must be half women. Members for this 34 party lists seats shall be elected from the lists of political parties in proportion to the number of votes won by each party that obtains at least 5 percent of the total vote on the Free Area of the Republic of China (中華民國自由地區).

The ROC has a multi-party system, but there are only a few major parties organized into two factions: the Pan-Blue Coalition and the Pan-Green Coalition.

Contents 1 Latest elections 1.1 2008 Presidential election 1.2 2008 Legislative election 1.3 2005 National Assembly election 1.4 2004 Legislative election 1.5 2004 Presidential election 2 Past elections 3 Party elections 4 See also 5 External links

Latest elections

2008 Presidential election

e • d Summary of the 22 March 2008 Republic of China presidential election results

Party		Candidate		Votes	Percentage
		President	Vice president
	Kuomintang	Ma Ying-jeou	Vincent Siew	7,659,014	58.45%
	Democratic Progressive Party	Frank Hsieh	Su Tseng-chang	5,444,949	41.55%
Total				13,103,963	100.00%

2008 Legislative election

 Summary of the Republic of China Legislative Yuan elections, 2008^[1]

Parties		Constituency and Aboriginal				Party list			Total seats
		Votes	%	+/−[2]	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Outgoing	%	Incoming	%	+/−[2]
	Kuomintang registration	5,291,512	53.5	+20.7	61	5,010,801	51.2	20	90	40.0	81	71.7	+31.7
	Kuomintang				54			17	85		71
	People First Party co-nomination[3]				5			3	-		8
	New Party endorsement[4]				2			-	5		2
	Non-Partisan Solidarity Union[5]	239,317	2.4	-1.2	3	68,527	0.7	0	8	3.6	3	2.7	-0.9
	People First Party[3]	28,254	0.3	-13.3	1	-	-	-	20	8.9	1	0.9	-8.0
	New Party[4]	-	-	(-0.1)	-	386,660	4.0	0	-	-	0	0	-
	Pan-Blue coalition[6]	5,559,083	56.2	+5.7	65	5,465,988	55.9	20	118	52.4	85	75.2	+22.8
	Democratic Progressive Party	3,775,352	38.2	+2.5	13	3,610,106	36.9	14	90	40.0	27	23.9	-16.1
	Taiwan Solidarity Union	93,840	0.9	-6.9	0	344,887	3.5	0	7	3.1	0	0	-3.1
	Taiwan Constitution Association	3,926	<0.1		0	30,315	0.3	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Pan-Green coalition	3,863,118	39.1	-4.4	13	3,954,993	40.7	14	97	43.1	27	23.9	-19.2
	Home Party	6,355	<0.1		0	77,870	0.8	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Green Party Taiwan	14,767	0.1		0	58,473	0.6	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Taiwan Farmers' Party	8,681	<0.1		0	57,144	0.6	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Civil Party	6,562	<0.1		0	48,192	0.5	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Third Society Party	10,057	0.1		0	45,594	0.5	0	1	0.4	0	0	-0.4
	Hakka Party	8,860	<0.1		0	42,004	0.4	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Independents[6]	393,346	4.0	-1.9	1	-	-	-	1	0.4	1	0.9	+0.5
	Vacant	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8	3.6	-	-	-
	Total[7]	10,050,619	-	-	-	10,076,239	-	-	225	100	113	100	-

2005 National Assembly election

e • d Summary of the 14 May 2005 Republic of China National Assembly election results

Parties	Votes	Percentage (%)		Seats
Parties in favor of the amendments				249
Democratic Progressive Party	1,647,791	42.52		127
Kuomintang	1,508,384	38.92		117
___ Chinese People's Party	41,940	1.08		3
___ Peasant Party	15,516	0.40		1
___ Civil Party	8,609	0.22		1
Parties not in favor of the amendments				51
Taiwan Solidarity Union	273,147	7.05		21
People First Party	236,716	6.11		18
___ 150 persons union led by Jhang Ya Jhong	65,081	1.68		5
New Party	34,253	0.88		3
Non-Partisan Solidarity Union	25,162	0.65		2
Taiwan Independence Party	11,500	0.30		1
___ 20 persons union led by Wang Ting Sing	7,499	0.19		1
Total (turnout )				300

2004 Legislative election

e • d Summary of the 11 December 2004 Republic of China Legislative Yuan election results

Coalitions and parties	Votes	%	Seats	Change
Pan-Blue Coalition			114	-1
Kuomintang 中國國民黨 (Zhongguo Guomin Dang,KMT)	3,190,081	34.90	79	+11
People First Party 親民黨 (Qinmin Dang)	1,350,613	14.78	34	–12
New Party 新黨 (Xin Dang)	12,137	0.13	1
Pan-Green Coalition			101	+1
Democratic Progressive Party 民主進步黨 (Minzhu Jinbu Dang)	3,471,429	37.98	89	+2
Taiwan Solidarity Union 台灣團結聯盟 (Taiwan Tuanjie Lianmeng)	756,712	8.28	12	–1
Others			10
Non-Partisan Solidarity Union	353,164	3.86	6	–5
Independent			4
Total (turnout )	9,140,067	100%	225
5% vote threshold needed for proportional seat assignment

2004 Presidential election

e • d Summary of the 20 March 2004 Republic of China presidential election results

Candidates and nominating parties	Votes	%		Votes before recount
Chen Shui-bian and Annette Lu Democratic Progressive Party (Pan-Green Coalition)	6,446,900	50.11		6,471,970
Lien Chan and James C.Y. Soong Kuomintang / People First Party (Pan-Blue Coalition)	6,423,906	49.89		6,442,452
Total (turnout 80.28 %)	12,914,422	100.0
Invalid votes	337,297
Votes cast	13,251,719

Past elections

Elections and referendums in the Republic of China Presidential elections 1996 · 2000 · 2004 · 2008 · 2012 Legislative elections 1928 · 1930 · 1932 · 1934 · 1948 · 1969 · 1972 · 1975 · 1980 · 1983 · 1986 · 1989 · 1992 · 1995 · 1998 · 2001 · 2004 · 2008 · 2012 National Assembly elections 1912 · 1918 · 1921 · 1947 · 1969 · 1972 · 1980 · 1986 · 1991 · 1996 · 2005 Municipal and provincial elections 1994 · 1998 · 2002 · 2006  · 2010 Local elections 1993 · 1997 · 2001 · 2005  · 2009 Referendums 2004 · 2008 (Jan) · 2008 (Mar)

NB: Does not include the 1948 election held in the Republic of China before the fall of mainland China to the communist government of the People's Republic of China. The terms of those elected from mainland seats lasted until December 31, 1991.

Party elections

• Kuomintang chairmanship election, 2005
• Democratic Progressive Party chairmanship election, 2006

See also

• History of the Republic of China
• Politics of the Republic of China
• Administrative divisions of the Republic of China
• Electoral calendar
• Electoral system
• Kuomintang

External links

• Adam Carr's Election Archive
• ROC Central Election Commission
• Constitution of the Republic of China (english)
• List of the seven revisions of the Republic of China COnstitution (english)

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