2016 Taiwanese general election

2016 election in Taiwan Taiwan 16 January 2016 2012 Taiwanese general election (disambiguation) 2012 2020 Taiwanese general election 2020 Presidential election yes presidential 2012 Taiwanese presidential election 2012 2020 Taiwanese presidential election 2020 66.27% (8.11pp percentage points) 130x130px 蔡英文官方元首肖像照 (cropped).png Tsai Ing-wen Democratic Progressive Party Chen Chien-jen 6,894,744 56.12% Eric Chu Chopped 2017.png Eric Chu Kuomintang Wang Ju-hsuan 3,813,365 31.04% James Soong election infobox.jpg James Soong People First Party (Taiwan) Hsu Hsin-ying 1,576,861 12.84% President Ma Ying-jeou Kuomintang Tsai Ing-wen Democratic Progressive Party yes Legislative election All 113 seats in the Legislative Yuan 57 2012 2020 66.25% ( 8.08 pp, party-list)66.34% ( 8.13 pp, constituency) Democratic Progressive Party Tsai Ing-wen 44.06 68 40 Kuomintang Eric Chu 26.91 35 64 People First Party (Taiwan) James Soong 6.52 3 3 New Power Party Huang Kuo-chang 6.11 5 new Non-Partisan Solidarity Union Lin Pin-kuan 0.64 1 2 Independent – – 1 1 President of the Legislative Yuan Wang Jin-pyng Kuomintang Su Jia-chyuan Democratic Progressive Party General elections were held in Taiwan, officially the Republic of China, on Saturday, 16 January 2016 to elect the 14th President and Vice President of the Republic of China, and all 113 members of the ninth Legislative Yuan:Presidential, legislative elections set for Jan. 16, 2016 http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aipl/201503170010.aspx focustaiwan.tw The Central News Agency 19 March 2015 Presidential election 2016 Taiwanese presidential election The president and vice president electionhttp://vote2016.cec.gov.tw/en/IDX/indexP1.html 14th Presidential and Vice Presidential Election Central Election Commission 2019-02-01 2017-06-24 https://web.archive.org/web/20170624051510/http://vote2016.cec.gov.tw/en/IDX/indexP1.html dead was held in Taiwan on 16 January 2016. Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidate Tsai Ing-wen with her independent running mate Chen Chien-jen won over Eric Chu of the Kuomintang (KMT) and James Soong of the People First Party (PFP). Tsai became the first female president in Taiwan, as well as the Chinese-speaking world.Tsai Faces Three Major Challenges https://english.cw.com.tw/article/article.action?id=135 2016-01-22 CommonWealth Magazine A second-time presidential candidate, Tsai secured the DPP's nomination uncontested as early as February 2015, while KMT candidate Hung Hsiu-chu, who won the party's nomination in July 2015, was trailing behind Tsai by double digits.Taiwan’s KMT Moves to Replace Its Presidential Candidate Shannon Tiezzi October 8, 2015 The Diplomat https://thediplomat.com/2015/10/taiwans-kmt-moves-to-replace-its-presidential-candidate/ https://web.archive.org/web/20151008134507/https://thediplomat.com/2015/10/taiwans-kmt-moves-to-replace-its-presidential-candidate/ October 8, 2015 live Alarmed by Hung's perceived pro-Beijing stance, the KMT held an extraordinary party congress to nullify Hung's candidacy in a controversial move, and replaced her by the party chairman Eric Chu, less than a hundred days before the general election.Dumped and replaced: Eric Chu to lead ticket after Taiwan's ruling Nationalist Party kicks out unpopular Hung Hsiu-chu https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/1868955/dumped-and-replaced-eric-chu-lead-ticket-after-taiwans 17 October 2015 South China Morning Post However, Chu did not fare much better than Hung in the polls, and it was almost certain that Tsai was going to win weeks before the election. Veteran politician James Soong also announced his presidential campaign for the fourth time, making the election a three-way contest. Some 12 million voters, 66% of the total registered voters, cast their votes, the lowest turnout since the office was first directly elected in 1996.Tai Ya-chen Chen Chun-hua Huang Frances Turnout in presidential race lowest in history http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aipl/201601170015.aspx 17 January 2016 Central News Agency 17 January 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160119154047/http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aipl/201601170015.aspx 19 January 2016 Alt URL Tsai won 6.89 million votes, leading Chu who received 3.81 million votes by 3.08 million votes, becoming the second highest winning margin behind first direct presidential election in 1996.ELECTIONS: Chu concedes, resigns as KMT chair http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2016/01/17/2003637407 Taipei Times 2016-01-17 She also won with 56.1%, the second-largest vote share claimed by a presidential candidate since Ma Ying-jeou in the 2008 election. It was the second time the DPP won the presidency since Chen Shui-bian won in 2000. The DPP also won the Legislative Yuan election on the same day, which secured a DPP majority in the legislature. Legislative election 2016 Taiwanese legislative election The Legislative Yuan election was held on 16 January 2016 for all 113 seats to the Legislative Yuan in Taiwan. 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 the legislature, returned to the opposition. 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 conceding defeat to relatively unknown city councillor Tsai Shih-ying from the DPP, becoming one of its biggest loses in the election. The year-old New Power Party (NPP) founded by young activists which emerged from the 2014 Sunflower Movement also fared well to win five seats by defeating some of the KMT veterans.Historic change as KMT loses long-held Parliament majority https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/historic-change-as-kmt-loses-long-held-parliament-majority The Straits Times 2016-01-17 References general election Category:January 2016 in Taiwan