2008 Taiwanese legislative election

none Taiwan legislative 2004 Taiwanese legislative election 2004 2008 01 12 y中選會資料庫網站 https://db.cec.gov.tw/ cec.gov.tw 29 January 2020 zh-Hant-TW 30 May 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200530022402/https://db.cec.gov.tw/ live 7th Legislative Yuan 2012 Taiwanese legislative election 2012 All 113 seats in the Legislative Yuan 57 17,179,656District and aboriginal electorate; party-list electorate size was 17,288,551 58.50% ( 0.85pp)District and aboriginal electorate; party-list voter turnout was 58.28% Wuboxiong election infobox.png Wu Po-hsiung Kuomintang Pan-Blue Coalition 79 seats 81 2 總統陳水扁先生玉照 (國民大會實錄).jpg Chen Shui-bian Democratic Progressive Party Pan-Green Coalition 89 seats 27 62 Constituency vote Party vote 5,291,51253.50% 3,775,35238.17% 5,010,80151.23% 3,610,10636.91% 300px Vote share by constituencies 2008ROCLY-cartogram.svg Election cartogram Wang Jin-pyng Kuomintang Wang Jin-pyng Kuomintang Legislative elections were held in Taiwan on 12 January 2008 to elect the members of the Legislative Yuan. It was the first Legislative Yuan election after the constitutional amendments of 2005, which extended term length from three to four years, reduced seat count from 225 to 113, and introduced the current electoral system. The results gave the Kuomintang (KMT) and the Pan-Blue Coalition a supermajority (86 of the 113 seats) in the legislature, handing a heavy defeat to then-President Chen Shui-bian's Democratic Progressive Party, which won the remaining 27 seats only. The junior partner in the Pan-Green Coalition, the Taiwan Solidarity Union, won no seats. Two transitional justice referendums, both of which failed to pass due to low turnout, were held at the same time. Legislature reform For the first time in the history of Taiwan, most members of the Legislative Yuan were to be elected from single-member districts: 73 of the 113 members were chosen in such districts by the plurality voting system (first-past-the-post). Parallel to the single member constituencies (not compensating for disproportionality in single-member districts), 34 seats were elected in one national district by party-list proportional representation. For these seats, only political parties whose votes exceed a five percent threshold were eligible for the allocation. Six further seats were reserved for Taiwanese aborigines. Therefore, each elector had two ballots under parallel voting. The aboriginal members were elected by single non-transferable vote in two 3-member constituencies for lowland aborigines and highland aborigines respectively. This did not fulfill the promise in the treaty-like document A New Partnership Between the Indigenous Peoples and the Government of Taiwan, where each of the 13 recognized indigenous peoples was to get at least one seat, and the distinction between highland and lowland abolished. The breakdown by administrative unit was:Central Election CommissionAugust 2019 InternetArchiveBot yes Jurisdiction Seats Jurisdiction Seats Jurisdiction Seats Taipei City 8 Taichung City 3 Kaohsiung County 4 Kaohsiung City 5 Changhua County 4 Pingtung County 3 Taipei County 12 Yunlin County 2 Yilan County 1 Keelung City 1 Nantou County 2 Hualien County 1 Taoyuan County 6 Chiayi County 2 Taitung County 1 Hsinchu City 1 Chiayi City 1 Penghu County 1 Hsinchu County 1 Tainan County 3 Kinmen County 1 Miaoli County 2 Tainan City 2 Lienchiang County 1 Taichung County 5 The delimitation of the single-member constituencies within the cities and counties was a major political issue, with bargaining between the government and the legislature. Of the 15 cities and counties to be partitioned (the ten others have only one seat), only seven of the districting schemes proposed by the CEC were approved in a normal way. The eight other schemes were decided by drawing lots: "Taipei and Taichung cities and Miaoli and Changhua counties will adopt the version suggested by the CEC, while Kaohsiung city will follow the consensus of the legislature. Taipei county will follow the proposal offered by the opposition Taiwan Solidarity Union, Taoyuan county will adopt the ruling Democratic Progressive Party's scheme, and Pingtung county will use the scheme agreed upon by the Non-partisan Solidarity Union, People First Party, Kuomintang and Taiwan Solidarity Union."January 31, 2007.CEC Completes Legislative Constituency Redistricting https://web.archive.org/web/20070928061530/http://www.taiwanheadlines.gov.tw/ct.asp?xItem=61046&ctNode=5 2007-09-28 . Taiwan Headlines. Retrieved on 2008-01-12. Impact of the electoral system The elections were the first held under a new electoral system which had been approved by both major parties in constitutional amendments adopted in 2005, but which one political scientist has argued favored the KMT.March 2008 The rules are set up so that every county has at least one seat, which gave a higher representation for smaller counties in which the KMT traditionally has done well. Northern counties tend to be marginally in favor of KMT, whereas southern counties tend to be strongly for DPP, and the single member system limits this advantage. The partially led to the result that the legislative count was highly in favor of the KMT while the difference in the number of votes cast for the KMT and DPP were less dramatic.http://news.chinatimes.com/2007Cti/2007Cti-Focus/2007Cti-Focus-Content/0,4518,9701120371+97011207+0+014827+0,00.html 中時電子報｜最新焦點 2008-01-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20080115091627/http://news.chinatimes.com/2007Cti/2007Cti-Focus/2007Cti-Focus-Content/0,4518,9701120371+97011207+0+014827+0,00.html 2008-01-15 dead It was considered possible that the 2008 Taiwanese presidential election would be held on the same day as this election, but this was eventually not the case, with the presidential happening 10 weeks later, in March. Two referendums were held on the same date. Results File:Taiwan Legislative Yuan 2008.svg Party-list Constituency/Aboriginal KuomintangPFP In a pre-election agreement, the Kuomintang and the People First Party agreed to register most PFP constituency candidates as KMT candidates, and nominate a common KMT party list, in order to prevent splitting of the Pan-Blue vote. The PFP won one aboriginal seat it contested under its own name, five constituency seats contested under the KMT banner, and three seats within the KMT party list.NP Under New Party direction, all New Party legislators in the outgoing legislature had joined the KMT, and New Party members ran as KMT candidates with New Party endorsement in this election. The New Party ran only party list candidates in this election but failed to pass the 5% threshold. 5010801 20 5291512 61 81 Democratic Progressive Party 3610106 14 3775352 13 27 New PartyNP 386660 0 0 Taiwan Solidarity Union 344887 0 93840 0 0 Home Party 77870 0 6355 0 0 Non-Partisan Solidarity Union 68527 0 239317 3 3 Green Party Taiwan 58473 0 14767 0 0 Taiwan Farmers' Party 57144 0 8681 0 0 Civil Party 48192 0 6562 0 0 Third Society Party 45594 0 10057 0 0 Hakka Party 42004 0 8860 0 0 Taiwan Constitution Association 30315 0 3926 0 0 People First PartyPFP 28254 1 1 Democratic Liberal Party 5094 0 0 Great Mercy and Charity Party zh 大道慈悲济世党 3783 0 0 Hongyun Loyalty Party 581 0 0 World Peace Party 489 0 0 IndependentsChen Fu-hai of Kinmen, the lone independent elected in this election, is a former KMT member and endorsed the KMT presidential campaign. Hence the strength of the Pan-Blue coalition is taken as 86. 393346 1 1 295666 159843 17288551 17179656 Election Study CenterOctober 2026, CEC Legislators elected through constituency and aborigine ballots List of candidates in the 2008 Taiwanese legislative election Kuomintang Kuomintang Democratic Progressive Party Democratic Progressive Party Non-Partisan Solidarity Union Non-Partisan Solidarity Union white Independent ConstituencyElected candidate(s)Popular voteTaipei City Constituency 1Ting Shou-chung59.81%Taipei City Constituency 2Justin Chou52.39%Taipei City Constituency 3John Chiang60.25%Taipei City Constituency 4Alex Tsai62.25%Taipei City Constituency 5Lin Yu-fang58.24%Taipei City Constituency 6Diane Lee66.80%Taipei City Constituency 7Alex Fai65.79%Taipei City Constituency 8Lai Shyh-bao71.81%Kaohsiung City Constituency 1Huang Chao-shun58.29%Kaohsiung City Constituency 2Kuan Bi-ling48.84%Kaohsiung City Constituency 3Hou Tsai-feng zh 侯彩鳳49.13%Kaohsiung City Constituency 4Lee Fu-hsing51.32%Kaohsiung City Constituency 5Kuo Wen-chen zh 郭玟成46.01%Taipei County Constituency 1Wu Yu-sheng zh 吳育昇58.38%Taipei County Constituency 2Lin Shu-fen 43.17%Taipei County Constituency 3Yu Tian49.51%Taipei County Constituency 4Lee Hung-chun 25px|People First Party51.73%Taipei County Constituency 5Huang Chih-hsiung52.32%Taipei County Constituency 6Lin Hung-chih56.93%Taipei County Constituency 7Wu Chin-chih 25px|People First Party55.82%Taipei County Constituency 8Chang Ching-chung59.55%Taipei County Constituency 9Lin Te-fu69.61%Taipei County Constituency 10Lu Chia-chen60.10%Taipei County Constituency 11Lo Ming-tsai69.69%Taipei County Constituency 12Lee Ching-hua51.96%Keelung CityHsieh Kuo-liang67.79%Yilan CountyLin Chien-jung zh 林建榮53.12%Taoyuan County Constituency 1Chen Ken-te zh 陳根德61.76%Taoyuan County Constituency 2Liao Cheng-ching zh 廖正井54.57%Taoyuan County Constituency 3John Wu63.22%Taoyuan County Constituency 4Yang Li-huan zh 楊麗環62.42%Taoyuan County Constituency 5Chu Fong-chi63.76%Taoyuan County Constituency 6Sun Ta-chien zh 孫大千65.02%Hsinchu CountyChiu Ching-chun66.52%Hsinchu CityLu Hsueh-chang zh 呂學樟60.61%Miaoli County Constituency 1Lee Yi-ting58.01%Miaoli County Constituency 2Hsu Yao-chang45.62%Taichung County Constituency 1Liu Chuan-chung53.59%Taichung County Constituency 2Yen Ching-piao59.94%Taichung County Constituency 3Chiang Lien-fu zh 江連福54.95%Taichung County Constituency 4Shyu Jong-shyong64.00%Taichung County Constituency 5Yang Chiung-ying57.68%Taichung City Constituency 1Tsai Chin-lung zh 蔡錦隆61.29%Taichung City Constituency 2Lu Shiow-yen57.08%Taichung City Constituency 3Daniel Huang 25px|People First Party54.91%Changhua County Constituency 1Chen Hsiu-ching44.96%Changhua County Constituency 2Lin Tsang-min zh 林滄敏60.02%Changhua County Constituency 3Cheng Ru-fen zh 鄭汝芬45.33%Changhua County Constituency 4Hsiao Ching-tien zh 蕭景田41.26%Nantou County Constituency 1Wu Den-yih67.12%Nantou County Constituency 2Lin Ming-chen57.93%Yunlin County Constituency 1Chiang Chia-chun zh 張嘉郡56.24%Yunlin County Constituency 2Chang Sho-wen49.11%Chiayi County Constituency 1Wong Chung-chun57.47%Chiayi County Constituency 2Helen Chang57.05%Chiayi CityChiang Yi-hsiung zh 江義雄46.70%Tainan County Constituency 1Yeh Yi-jin zh 葉宜津54.57%Tainan County Constituency 2Huang Wei-cher59.16%Tainan County Constituency 3Lee Chun-yee52.66%Tainan City Constituency 1Chen Ting-fei50.27%Tainan City Constituency 2William Lai51.64%Kaohsiung County Constituency 1Chung Shao-ho 25px|People First Party53.55%Kaohsiung County Constituency 2Lin Yi-shih55.27%Kaohsiung County Constituency 3Chen Chi-yu zh 陳啟昱45.13%Kaohsiung County Constituency 4Chiang Ling-chun zh 江玲君50.22%Pingtung County Constituency 1Su Chen-ching zh 蘇震清46.90%Pingtung County Constituency 2Wang Chin-shih zh 王進士56.82%Pingtung County Constituency 3Pan Men-an51.30%Hualien CountyFu Kun-chi 25px|People First Party66.39%Taitung CountyJustin Huang61.09%Penghu CountyLin Pin-kuan50.71%Kinmen CountyChen Fu-hai37.31%Lienchiang CountyTsao Erh-chung49.72%Lowland AborigineLiao Kuo-tung (Kuomintang) Yang Jen-fu (Kuomintang) Lin Cheng-er (林正二) (25px People First Party)Highland AborigineChien Tung-ming (Kuomintang) Kung Wen-chi (孔文吉) (Kuomintang) Kao Chin Su-mei (Non-Partisan Solidarity Union ) Notes: Candidates marked 25px|People First Party are People First Party candidates running under the KMT party banner. Candidates marked are New Party candidates who joined the Kuomintang with New Party endorsement. Most names on the list follow the Tongyong Pinyin romanization used in the Central Election Committee website and may not accurately reflect the candidates' preferred romanization of their name. Legislators elected through proportional representation and overseas Chinese ballots No.PartyElected/CandidatesCandidate List1Civil Party0/4Lei Chiao-yun Chien Han-ching Chen Hua Zu Kong Jen-yi2Taiwan Constitution Association0/3Wu Ying-hsiang zh 吳景祥 Huang Sin Jhu Huang Chien-ming3Taiwan Solidarity Union0/15 Chen Yung-hsing Chen Yu-feng zh 陳玉峯 Lai Shin-yuan Shih Chao-hsien Chien Lin Hui-chun zh 錢林慧君 Chiang Wei-chun Huang Kun-huei Lo Chih-ming Lee Yi-chieh (politician) zh 李宜潔 Lee Yi-chieh Fan Sheng-bao Chang Chin-sheng Fu Hsin-yi Huang Chao-chan zh 黃昭展 Yeh Chin-ling zh 葉津鈴 Annie Lee (politician) zh 李安妮 Annie Lee4Third Society Party0/5Lu Hsiu-chu zh 呂秀菊 Yang Wei-chung zh 楊偉中 Lin Chih-chen Yang Ching-hua zh 楊靜華 Lin Chih-cheng5Democratic Progressive Party14/33 Chen Chieh-ju Tsai Huang-liang Twu Shiing-jer Chiu Yi-ying Ker Chien-ming Huang Sue-ying Wang Sing-nan Hsueh Ling Gao Jyh-peng zh 高志鵬 Chen Ying Yu Jane-daw zh 余政道 Wong Chin-chu Chai Trong-rong Tien Chiu-chin Hung Chi-chang Chang Fu-mei Michael You zh 游盈隆 Hsu Jung-shu Yu Shyi-kun Yang Fang-wan Chou Ching-yu Chen Mao-nan Wu Ming-ming Chang Shiow-jen Fan Sun-lu Wang To-far Chang Ching-hui Chou Kuang-chou Liu Mei-te Shih Yi-fang Li Yi Jing You Ma Liang Chen-hsiang Chen Hui-ling (politician) Chen Hui-ling zh 陳慧玲 (政治人物)6 New Party0/10 Chou Yang-shan Joanna Lei Kao Chia-chun Lin Mei-lun Hsu Tsung-mao Kuo Chia-fen Ke Chien-pu Sun Chi-chen Lee Sheng-feng Yok Mu-ming7Green Party Taiwan0/4 Mary Chen Chang Hui-shan Chang Hung-lin zh 張宏林 Wang Fang-ping8Taiwan Farmers' Party0/8 Chien Hsiao-feng Ke Chun-hsiung Ma Kuo-ching Chen Hsin-hung Fan Chiang Hsiu-chen Chen Chung-kuang Hung Mei-chen Chang Wen-cheng9Non-Partisan Solidarity Union0/2 Christina Liu Chen Chieh-ju10Kuomintang20/34 Wang Jin-pyng Hung Hsiu-chu Tseng Yung-chuan Tina Pan Chiu Yi Cheng Chin-ling zh 鄭金玲 25px|People First Party Chen Chieh (politician) zh 陳杰 (政治人物) Chen Chieh Lee Jih-chu Chang Hsien-yao Nancy Chao zh 趙麗雲 Lee Chia-chin zh 李嘉進 Liao Wan-ju (politician) zh 廖婉汝 Liao Wan-ju Chi Kuo-tung zh 紀國棟 Lo Shu-lei 25px|People First Party Mark Li Kuo Su-chun zh 郭素春 Liu Shen-liang Cheng Li-wen Shuai Hua-min zh 帥化民 Hsu Shao-ping zh 徐少萍 Hsu Shu-po zh 許舒博 Chen Shu-hui Lee Chuan-chiao zh 李全教 Hsu Yu-chen zh 許宇甄 Huang Liang-hua Yang Yu-chen zh 楊玉珍 Lin Cheng-feng zh 林正峰 Hua Chen Yao Chiang-lin Chiu Mei-jui 25px|People First Party Chiang Chi-wun zh 江綺雯 Lu Chun-lin Chiu Jun-jung Hsieh Kun-hung zh 謝坤宏11Home Party0/7Yang Yu-hsin zh 楊玉欣 Yao Li-ming Chen Yao-chang Hu Te-fu zh 胡德夫 (歌手) Huang Hui-chun Tsung Ying-yi Wei Yao-chien12Hakka Party0/3Sung Chu-yu Chung Deng-ting Peng Yun-huang Notes: Candidates marked with a ^ are overseas Chinese candidates. Elected candidates are marked with a next to their name. Candidates with 25px|People First Party are People First Party candidates running on a joint ticket with the Kuomintang謝自宗 http://59.120.145.210/article/news_content.php?catid=1&catsid=2&catdid=0&artid=20071120andy002 吳伯雄接待親民黨張顯耀等不分區立委候選人 (Independence Evening Post) 2007-11-20 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20071211182037/http://59.120.145.210/article/news_content.php?catid=1&catsid=2&catdid=0&artid=20071120andy002 2007-12-11。 Green Party Taiwan candidate Wang Fang Ping is endorsed by the coalition Raging Citizens Act Now! zh 人民火大行動聯盟人民火大行動聯盟 - 不分區立委候選人 王芳萍簡介 : https://web.archive.org/web/20080212080800/http://www.nobnog.org.tw/modules/tinyd1/index.php?id=4 2008-02-12 。 Most names on the list follow the Tongyong Pinyin romanization used in the Central Election Committee website and may not accurately reflect the candidates' preferred romanization of their name. Legislators elected through subsequent by-elections DateConstituencyOutgoing memberIncoming member14 March 2009Miaoli 1Lee Yi-tingKang Shih-ju28 March 2009Taipei City 6Diane LeeChiang Nai-shin26 September 2009Yunlin 2Chang Sho-wenLiu Chien-kuo5 December 2009Nantou 1Wu Den-yihMa Wen-chun9 January 2010Taichung County 3Chiang Lien-fu (江連福)Tony Jian9 January 2010TaitungJustin HuangLie Kuen-cheng (賴坤成)9 January 2010Taoyuan 2Liao Cheng-ching (廖正井)Kuo June-tsung (郭榮宗)27 February 2010Chiayi County 2Helen ChangChen Ming-wen27 February 2010Taoyuan 3John WuHuang Jen-shu (黃仁杼)27 February 2010Hsinchu CountyChiu Ching-chunPerng Shaw-jiin27 February 2010HualienFu Kun-chi 25px|People First Party王廷升5 March 2011Kaohsiung 4 (Kaohsiung County 3 in 2008)Chen Chi-yu zh 陳啟昱Lin Tai-hua (林岱樺)5 March 2011Tainan 4 (Tainan City 2 in 2008)William LaiHsu Tain-tsair Impact With this election the KMT and the Pan-Blue Coalition have more than the two-thirds majority needed to propose a recall election of the President and if NPSU votes are counted with the pan-Blue coalition, more than the three-quarters majority needed to propose constitutional amendments. Reaction from People's Republic of China The government of People's Republic of China, which claims sovereignty over Taiwan, remained largely silent on the election result. State media carried brief updates of results and passed no comment on either the referendum or the Kuomintang victory.新华网专题报道 The government of China appointed 13 representatives for Taiwan to its own National People's Congress on the same day. These delegates are mostly descendants of Taiwanese who emigrated to the Mainland, or Communist supporters who fled Taiwan. Their positions are ceremonial as the PRC do not exercise effective jurisdiction over Taiwan.http://www.chinapost.com.tw/news/2008/01/13/138803/China%2D%27elects.htm China 'elects' 13 of its own representatives for Taiwan - The China Post 2008-01-13 2008-01-15 https://web.archive.org/web/20080115062445/http://www.chinapost.com.tw/news/2008/01/13/138803/China%2D%27elects.htm dead See also Seventh Legislative Yuan Notes References External links Results of the legislative election from the Central Election Commission BBC News (2008-01-12): Kuomintang in huge win BBC News (2008-01-11): Battle lines drawn in Taiwan vote The World Next Week by Oxford Analytica (2008-01-10): Taiwan: year of the thaw? Category:Legislative elections in Taiwan Legislative Taiwan Category:January 2008 in Taiwan Category:January 2008 elections