Taiwan general election, 2020

Taiwan General Election, 2020

 
Party Democratic Progressive Kuomintang
Alliance Pan-Green Coalition Pan-Blue Coalition
Incumbent President

Tsai Ing-wen
Democratic Progressive

General elections will be held in Taiwan in 2020 to elect the President and the Legislative Yuan. The incumbent president Tsai Ing-wen is eligible for re-election.

Electoral system

Presidential candidates and vice-presidential running mates are elected on the same ticket, using first-past-the-post voting. This will be the seventh direct election of the president and vice president, the posts having previously been indirectly elected by the National Assembly until 1996.

The 113 members of the Legislative Yuan are elected by a supplementary member system, with 73 from geographical constituencies (General) via first-past-the-post, 6 from two 3-member aboriginal constituencies via single non-transferable vote, and 34 from closed list proportional representation (PR) via a national party vote.

Presidential election

Democratic Progressive Party

Potential candidates

The incumbent president Tsai Ing-wen is eligible to run for a second term.

Name Born Current or previous positions Ref

Tsai Ing-wen		 August 31, 1956
(age 62)
Taipei, Taiwan		 Current President of the Republic of China

Chairperson of the Democratic Progressive Party

 [1]

Kuomintang

Potential candidates

Name Born Current or previous positions Ref

Eric Chu		 June 7, 1961
(age 57)
Bade, Taoyuan, Taiwan		 Mayor of New Taipei City

2016 Taiwan General Election Presidential Candidate

Wu Den-yih		 January 30, 1948
(age 70)
Caotun, Nantou, Taiwan		 Chairman of the Kuomintang

Former Vice President of the Republic of China

 [2]

Terry Gou		 October 8, 1950
(age 68)
Banqiao, New Taipei, Taiwan		 Founder and Chairman of Foxconn [3]

Chiang Wan-an 		December 26, 1978
(age 39)
Taipei, Taiwan		 Member of the Legislative Yuan since 2016.

Opinion polls

President

Date Pollster Sample size Tsai Ing-Wen Terry Gou Eric Chu
17 May 2017Taiwan Style Foundation1,27137.630.115.3

Party identification

Date Source
DPP
KMT
PFP
NPP
NP
Green
SD
TSU
MKT
Trees
Other
Undecided		 Lead
19 Dec 2017 Taiwan's Election and Democracy Study 22.4% 25.6% 1.3% 5.9% 0.4% 0.7% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.2% 0.2% 43.2% 3.2%
30 Jan 2018 Taiwan Real Survey 18.1% 19.1% 2.1% 6.2% 0.9% 0.7% - 0.0% 0.1% - - 52.8% 1.0%
26 Mar 2018 Taiwan's Election and Democracy Study 21.9% 24.7% 1.7% 4.8% 0.4% 0.4% 0.2% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.2% 45.6% 2.6%
24 Jul 2018 Taiwan Real Survey 14.6% 23.1% 2.9% 6.0% 0.5% 0.8% - 0.3% 0.1% - - 51.7% 8.5%
13 Aug 2018 Taiwan Real Survey 16.4% 21.3% 2.4% 6.8% 0.8% 1.2% - 0.7% 0.1% - - 50.4% 4.9%
1 Sep 2018 Taiwan Real Survey 16.5% 21.8% 1.3% 4.7% 0.6% 1.1% - 1.1% 0.7% - - 52.2% 5.3%
14 Sep 2018 Taiwan Real Survey 19.2% 30.8% 1.7% 5.3% 0.9% 1.0% - 0.5% 0.3% - - 40.2% 11.6%

References

  1. ↑ Tsai Front Runner for 2020 Presidential Race: Survey Focus Taiwan, 17 May 2017
  2. ↑ Wu Den-yih wins KMT chair election Taipei Times, 21 May 2017
  3. ↑ Will Foxconn's Terry Gou run against Tsai in the 2020 election? Straits Times, 2 May 2017
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