Taiwan legislative election, 2012

Taiwan legislative election, 2012

14 January 2012
All 113 seats to the Legislative Yuan 57 seats are needed for a majority
First party Second party   Leader Ma Ying-jeou Tsai Ing-wen Party Kuomintang Democratic Progressive Alliance Pan-Blue Pan-Green Leader since 17 October 2009 20 May 2008 Last election 81 seats, 53.5% 27 seats, 38.2% Seats before 72 33 Seats won 64 40 Seat change 8 7 Popular vote 5,863,379 4,556,526 Percentage 44.5% 34.6%   Third party Fourth party   Leader Huang Kun-huei James Soong Chu-yu Party TSU People First Alliance Pan-Green Pan-Blue Leader since 26 January 2007 31 March 2000 Last election 0 seats, 0% 1 seat, 0.9% Seats before 0 1 Seats won 3 3 Seat change 3 2 Popular vote 1,178,896 722,089 Percentage 8.96% 5.49%
Results[1]
President of the Legislative Yuan before election Wang Jin-pyng Kuomintang Elected President of the Legislative Yuan Wang Jin-pyng Kuomintang

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The 8th Legislative elections was held on 14 January 2012 in Taiwan. Voting took place in all legislative constituencies and elected 113 members of the Legislative Yuan. For the first time legislative elections were held simultaneously with the presidential election. Elected parliamentarians formed the fifteenth Legislative Yuan session since 1946, when the current constitution came into effect.

Subsidies

According to the "Civil Servants Election And Recall Act", subsidies are payable to the political parties who sponsor candidates for Legislative Yuan elections. Article 43 has the following specifications:^[2]

Every year the state shall apportion subsidies for campaign to the political parties, and the standard of apportionment shall be determined based on the latest election of members of the Legislative Yuan. If a ratio of vote attained by the political party achieves not less than 5% in the national integrated election and the overseas election of central civil servants, the subsidy for campaign funds shall be granted to the political party by a rate of NT$50 per vote every year.

The Central Election Commission shall work out the amount of the subsidy every fiscal year, and notify the party to prepare the receipt and receive the subsidy from the Central Election Commission within 1 month, till the tenure of the current session of the members of the Legislative Yuan expires.

Election results

Elected party composition of the 8th Legislative Yuan

Voting took place on 14 January 2012 between 08:00 and 16:00 local Taipei time at 14,806 polling stations nationwide.^[3]

 Summary of the 14 January 2012 Legislative Yuan election results

Parties (alliances)		constituency + Aboriginal		Party block		Votes	%	Total seats
		Seats	±	Seats	±			Before	After	±
	Kuomintang	48	13	16	4	5,863,379	44.55	81	64	17
	People First Party	1	0	2	2	722,089	5.49	1	3	2
	Non-Partisan Solidarity Union	2	1	0	0	148,105	1.12	3	2	1
	New Party	0	0	0	0	195,960	1.49	0	0	0
	Pan-Blue coalition	51	14	18	2	7,503,517	51.48	85	69	16
	Democratic Progressive Party	27	14	13	1	4,556,526	34.62	27	40	13
	Taiwan Solidarity Union	0	0	3	3	1,178,896	8.96	0	3	3
	Pan-Green coalition	27	14	16	2	5,735,422	43.56	27	43	16
	Independents	1	0	0	0	2,528	0.02	1	1	0
Total		79	0	34	0	13,241,467	100%	113	113	0
Source: Central Election Commission

By-elections

See also

• Ninth Legislative Yuan

References