2012 Taiwanese legislative election

The 2012 Taiwanese legislative election was held on 16 January 2012 for all 113 seats in 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. Voting took place on 14 January 2012 between 08:00 and 16:00 local Taipei time at 14,806 polling stations nationwide.[2]

2012 Taiwanese legislative election
14 January 2012 (2012-01-14)[1]
All 113 seats in the Legislative Yuan
57 seats needed for a majority
Registered17,980,578[lower-alpha 1]
Turnout74.47%[lower-alpha 2] 15.97 pp
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
Leader Ma Ying-jeou Tsai Ing-wen Huang Kun-huei
Party Kuomintang DPP TSU
Leader since 17 October 2009 20 May 2008 26 January 2007
Last election 81 seats, 51.23%[lower-alpha 3] 27 seats, 36.91%[lower-alpha 3] 0 seats, 3.53%[lower-alpha 3]
Seats won 64 40 3
Seat change 17 13 3
Popular vote 5,863,379[lower-alpha 3] 4,556,526[lower-alpha 3] 1,178,896[lower-alpha 3]
Percentage 44.55% 34.62% 8.96%
Swing 6.68 pp 2.29 pp 5.43 pp
Constituency seats won[lower-alpha 4] 48 out of 75 27 out of 70 Did not stand
  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Leader James Soong Lin Pin-kuan
Party People First NPSU
Leader since 31 March 2000 15 June 2007
Last election 1 seat 3 seats, 0.70%[lower-alpha 3]
Seats won 3 2
Seat change 2 1
Popular vote 722,089[lower-alpha 3] Did not stand[lower-alpha 3]
Percentage 5.49% N/A
Swing N/A[lower-alpha 5] N/A
Constituency seats won[lower-alpha 6] 1 out of 12 2 out of 3
Elected member party by constituency
Party-list leading party and vote count by township/city and district
President before election

Wang Jin-pyng
Kuomintang

 Elected President

Wang Jin-pyng
Kuomintang

Electoral system

Members were elected by parallel voting.

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:[3]

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.

Results

Summary

A summarised results of the parties that won seats at the election is as follows:

Party Leader Overall District and indigenous seats Party-list seats
Seats ± % Seats Votes % Seats Votes %
Kuomintang Ma Ying-jeou 64 17 56.64%
64 / 113
 48 6,339,301 48.12%
16 5,863,279 44.55%
Democratic Progressive Party Tsai Ing-wen 40 13 35.40%
40 / 113
 27 5,763,186 43.80%
13 4,556,424 34.62%
Taiwan Solidarity Union Huang Kun-huei 3 3 2.65%
3 / 113
 0 Did not stand 0.00%
3 1,178,797 8.96%
People First Party James Soong 3 2 2.65%
3 / 113
 1 175,032 1.33%
2 722,089 5.49%
Non-Partisan Solidarity Union Lin Pin-kuan 2 1 1.77%
2 / 113
 2 168,861 1.28%
0 Did not stand 0.00%

Full results
Elected party composition of the 8th Legislative Yuan
 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 7,651,622 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
Date Constituency Outgoing member Incoming member
26 January 2013 Taichung 2 Yen Ching-piao Yen Kuan-heng
7 February 2015 Changhua 4 Wei Ming-ku Chen Su-yueh (陳素月)
7 February 2015 Miaoli 2 Hsu Yao-chang Hsu Chih-jung (徐志榮)
7 February 2015 Nantou 2 Lin Ming-chen Hsu Shu-hua
7 February 2015 Pingtung 3 Pan Men-an Chuang Jui-hsiung (莊瑞雄)
7 February 2015 Taichung 6 Lin Chia-lung Huang Kuo-shu

See also
  • Ninth Legislative Yuan

Notes
  1. District and aboriginal electorate; party-list electorate size was 18,090,295
  2. District and aboriginal electorate; party-list voter turnout was 74.33%
  3. Party-list election
  4. District and aboriginal
  5. Did not stand in the party-list election in 2008
  6. District and aboriginal

References
  1. "中選會資料庫網站". cec.gov.tw (in Chinese). Retrieved 29 January 2020.
  2. CEC finalizes two-in-one poll preparations Archived 29 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine Taiwan Today. 13 January 2012
  3. Civil Servants Election And Recall Act, Laws and Regulations Database of the Republic of China. Act last amended 25 May 2011.
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