2020 Taiwanese legislative election

2020 Taiwanese legislative election
	11 January 2020[1]
	11 January 2020[1]
All 113 seats in the Legislative Yuan; 57 seats needed for a majority
Registered	19,221,861[lower-alpha 1]
Turnout	74.93%[lower-alpha 2] 7.59 pp
	Elected member party by constituency
	Party-list leading party and vote count by township/city and district
President before election; Su Jia-chyuan; DPP	Elected President ; Yu Shyi-kun; DPP

The 2020 Taiwanese legislative election was held on 11 January 2020 for all 113 seats to the Legislative Yuan concurrently with the 15th presidential election in Taiwan.[2] The term of the Legislative Yuan began on 1 February 2020.

The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) lost seven seats but retained a majority of 61 seats in the Legislative Yuan. The Kuomintang gained three seats, winning 38. The New Power Party won three seats, down from five in the last election. The Taiwan People's Party and Taiwan Statebuilding Party entered the Legislative Yuan with five seats and one seat, respectively, with five independent candidates winning their seats and the People First Party losing all of their seats.

Electoral system

Members were elected by parallel voting. 73 members were elected by first-past-the-post, 6 reserved for indigenous candidates by single non-transferable vote, and 34 by party-list proportional representation.

Constituency changes

In 2019, after negotiations between the Presidents of the Executive and Legislative Yuans, changes to the electoral divisions include:[3]

Kaoshiung and Pingtung each lost a seat.
Tainan and Hsinchu County each gained a seat.
The boundary between Taichung II and Taichung VII was adjusted.

Contesting parties and candidates

Party		General seats	Aboriginal seats	Party list	Total
	Democratic Progressive Party	67	2	33	102
	Kuomintang	71	5	31	107
	Taiwan People's Party	17	－	28	45
	New Power Party	5	－	11	16
	Taiwan Statebuilding Party	10	－	6	16
	People First Party	10	－	22	32
	Green Party	10	1	6	17
	New Party	－	－	10	10
	Taiwan Action Party Alliance	11	－	5	16
	Stabilizing Force Party	9	2	10	21
	Taiwan Solidarity Union	－	－	7	7
	Congress Party Alliance	13	－	6	19
	Chinese Unification Promotion Party	10	－	7	17
	Interfaith Union	12	－	8	20
	Formosa Alliance	10	2	6	18
	Labor Party	10	－	2	12
	United Action Alliance	10	2	8	20
	Taiwan Renewal Party	11	1	6	18
	Sovereign State for Formosa & Pescadores Party	9	1	4	14
	Taiwan Labor Party	3	－	－	3
	Independent	86	5	－	91
	Others	26	0	0	26
Total		410	21	216	647

Opinion polling

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
Party		Leader	Seats	±	%		Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%
	Democratic Progressive Party	Cho Jung-tai	61	7	53.98%	61 / 113	48	6,383,783	45.11%	13	4,811,241	33.98%
	Kuomintang	Wu Den-yih	38	3	33.63%	38 / 113	25	5,761,995	40.72%	13	4,723,504	33.36%
	Taiwan People's Party	Ko Wen-je	5	New	4.42%	5 / 113	0	264,478	1.87%	5	1,588,806	11.22%
	New Power Party	Hsu Yung-ming	3	2	2.65%	3 / 113	0	141,952	1.00%	3	1,098,100	7.75%
	Taiwan Statebuilding Party	Chen Yi-chi	1	New	0.88%	1 / 113	1	141,503	1.00%	0	447,286	3.16%

Results by constituency

Constituency			Elected member	Constituency			Elected member
New Taipei City	I	Kuomintang gain from DPP	Hung Mong-kai	Taipei City	I	DPP hold	Rosalia Wu
	II	DPP hold	Lin Shu-fen		II	DPP hold	Ho Chih-wei
	III	DPP hold	Yu Tian		III	Kuomintang hold	Chiang Wan-an
	IV	DPP hold	Wu Ping-jui		IV	DPP gain from Kuomintang	Kao Chia-yu
	V	DPP hold	Su Chiao-hui		V	Independent gain from New Power[lower-alpha 7]	Freddy Lim[lower-alpha 7]
	VI	DPP hold	Chang Hung-lu		VI	Kuomintang hold	Lin Yi-hua
	VII	DPP hold	Lo Chih-cheng		VII	Kuomintang hold	Fai Hrong-tai
	VIII	DPP hold	Chiang Yung-chang		VIII	Kuomintang hold	Lai Shyh-bao
	IX	Kuomintang hold	Lin Te-fu		–	–	–
	X	DPP hold	Wu Chi-ming		–	–	–
	XI	Kuomintang hold	Lo Ming-tsai		–	–	–
	XII	DPP gain from New Power	Lai Pin-yu		–	–	–
Taoyuan City	I	DPP hold	Cheng Yun-peng	Taichung City	I	DPP hold	Tsai Chi-chang
	II	DPP hold	Huang Shier-chieh		II	Statebuilding gain from Kuomintang	Chen Po-wei
	III	Kuomintang hold	Lu Ming-che		III	Kuomintang gain from New Power	Yang Chiung-ying
	IV	Kuomintang gain from DPP	Wan Mei-ling		IV	DPP hold	Chang Liao Wan-chien
	V	Kuomintang hold	Lu Yu-ling		V	DPP gain from Kuomintang	Zhuang Ching-cheng
	VI	Independent hold	Chao Cheng-yu		VI	DPP hold	Huang Kuo-shu
	–	–	–		VII	DPP hold	Ho Hsin-chun
	–	–	–		VIII	Kuomintang hold	Johnny Chiang
Tainan City	I	DPP hold	Lai Huei-yuen	Kaohsiung City[lower-alpha 8]	I	DPP hold	Chiu Yi-ying
	II	DPP hold	Kuo Kuo-wen		II	DPP hold	Chiu Chih-wei
	III	DPP hold	Chen Ting-fei		III	DPP hold	Liu Shyh-fang
	IV	DPP gain new seat	Lin I-chin		IV	DPP hold	Lin Tai-hua
	V	DPP hold	Lin Jun-xian		V	DPP hold	Lee Kun-tse
	VI	DPP hold	Wang Ting-yu		VI	DPP hold	Chao Tien-lin
	–	–	–		VII	DPP hold	Hsu Chih-chieh
	–	–	–		VIII	DPP hold	Lai Jui-lung
Yilan County		DPP hold	Chen Ou-po	Hsinchu County	I	Kuomintang hold	Lin Wei-chou
Yilan County		DPP hold	Chen Ou-po	Hsinchu County	II	Kuomintang gain new seat	Lin Si-ming
Miaoli County	I	Kuomintang hold	Chen Chao-ming	Changhua County	I	DPP gain from Kuomintang	Chen Hsiu-bao
	II	Kuomintang hold	Hsu Chih-jung		II	DPP hold	Huang Hsiu-fang
	–	–	–		III	Kuomintang gain from DPP	Hsieh Yi-fong
	–	–	–		IV	DPP hold	Chen Su-yueh
Nantou County	I	Kuomintang hold	Ma Wen-chun	Yunlin County	I	DPP hold	Su Chin-feng
Nantou County	II	Kuomintang hold	Hsu Shu-hua	Yunlin County	II	DPP hold	Liu Chien-kuo
Chiayi County	I	DPP hold	Tsai Yi-yu	Pingtung County[lower-alpha 8]	I	DPP hold	Chung Chia-pin
Chiayi County	II	DPP hold	Chen Ming-wen	Pingtung County[lower-alpha 8]	II	Independent gain from DPP[lower-alpha 9]	Su Chen-ching[lower-alpha 9]
Taitung County		DPP hold	Liu Chao-how	Hualien County		Independent gain from DPP	Fu Kun-chi
Penghu County		DPP hold	Yang Yao	Keelung City		DPP hold	Cai Shi-ying
Hsinchu City		Kuomintang gain from DPP	Chemg Cheng-chien	Chiayi City		DPP hold	Wang Mei-hui
Kinmen County		Kuomintang hold	Chen Yu-chen	Lienchiang County		Kuomintang hold	Cheng Hsueh-sheng
Lowland Aborigine		Kuomintang hold	Sra Kacaw	Highland Aborigine		Independent hold[lower-alpha 10]	Kao Chin Su-mei[lower-alpha 10]
		Kuomintang hold	Liao Kuo-tung			DPP gain from Kuomintang	Saidai Tarovecahe
		DPP hold	Chen Ying			Kuomintang hold	Kung Wen-chi

Results by party-list

2020 Taiwanese legislative party list results
S/N		Votes	Raw %	Swing (pp)	Re-allocated %	Seats	Elected members
14	Democratic Progressive Party	4,811,241	33.98	10.08	39.37	13 5	Wu Yu-chin, Hung Sun-han, Fan Yun, Low Meei-ling, Chiu Tai-yuan, Chou Chun-mi, Yu Shyi-kun, Ker Chien-ming, Kuan Bi-ling, Chuang Jui-hsiung, Shen Fa-hui, Lin Chu-yin, Tang Hui-jen
9	Kuomintang	4,723,504	33.36	6.45	38.65	13 2	Tseng Ming-chung, Yeh Yu-lan, Stacey Lee, Wu Sz-huai, Cheng Li-wen, Lin Wen-jui, Liao Wan-ju, Wong Chung-chun, Wu I-ding, Chen I-hsin, Chang Yu-mei, Lee De-wei, Wen Yu-hsia
15	Taiwan People's Party	1,588,806	11.22	New	13.00	5 5	Lai Hsiang-lin, Jang Chyi-lu, Kao Hung-an, Chiu Chen-yuan, Tsai Pi-ru
6	New Power Party	1,098,100	7.75	1.64	8.98	3 1	Chen Jiau-hua, Chiu Hsien-chih, Claire Wang
3	People First Party	518,921	3.66	2.86	–	0 3	–
5	Taiwan Statebuilding Party	447,286	3.16	New	–	0	–
12	Green Party	341,465	2.41	0.12	–	0	–
7	New Party	147,373	1.04	3.14	–	0	–
10	Taiwan Action Party Alliance	143,617	1.01	New	–	0	–
4	Stabilizing Force Party	94,563	0.67	New	–	0	–
19	Taiwan Solidarity Union	50,435	0.36	New	–	0	–
18	Congress Party Alliance	40,331	0.28	New	–	0	–
2	Chinese Unification Promotion Party	32,966	0.23	New	–	0	–
13	Interfaith Union	31,117	0.22	New	–	0	–
8	Formosa Alliance	29,324	0.21	New	–	0	–
11	Labour Party	19,941	0.14	New	–	0	–
1	United Action Alliance	17,515	0.12	New	–	0	–
16	Taiwan Renewal Party	11,952	0.08	New	–	0	–
17	Sovereign State for Formosa & Pescadores Party	11,681	0.08	New	–	0	–
Blank and invalid votes		296,155			–		–
Total		14,456,293	100.00		100.00
Registered voters/turnout		19,312,105	74.86

Result of aboriginal constituencies

Result in aboriginal constituencies[4][5][6][7]
Parties		Lowlands			Highlands			Total	+/-
Parties		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Total	+/-
	Kuomintang	78,153	64.12	2	50,093	34.61	1	3	-1
	Democratic Progressive Party	25,843	21.20	1	25,772	17.81	1	2	+1
	Green Party				1,163	0.80	0	0	0
	Stabilizing Force Party	1,273	1.04	0	1,241	0.86	0	0	0
	Formosa Alliance	2,958	2.42	0	577	0.40	0	0	0
	United Action Alliance	1,029	0.84	0				0	0
	Taiwan Renewal Party	5,020	4.12	0				0	0
	Sovereign State for Formosa & Pescadores Party				366	0.25	0	0	0
	Independents	7,604	6.24	0	65,512	45.27	1	1	+1

Valid votes		121,880	97.89		144,724	98.07
Blank and invalid		2,624	2.11		2,848	1.93
Total		124,504	100	3	147,572	100	3	6	0
Abstentions		75,329	37.70		67,543	31.40
Registered voters / participation		199,833	62.30		215,115	68.60

Full results

← Summary of the 11 January 2020 Legislative Yuan election results →
Parties		Constituency				Reserved seats	PR Block				Total seats

Parties		Votes	%	±pp	Seats	Reserved seats	Votes	%	±pp	Seats	Seats	±	%	±pp
	Democratic Progressive Party	6,332,168	45.60	1.01	46	2	4,811,241	33.98	10.08	13	61	7	53.98	6.20
	Kuomintang	5,633,749	40.57	1.68	22	3	4,723,504	33.36	6.45	13	38	3	33.63	2.66
	Taiwan People's Party	264,478	1.90	New	0	0	1,588,806	11.22	New	5	5	5	4.42	New
	New Power Party	141,952	1.02	1.87	0	0	1,098,100	7.75	1.64	3	3	2	2.65	1.77
	People First Party	60,614	0.44	0.88	0	0	518,921	3.66	2.86	0	0	3	0.00	2.65
	Taiwan Statebuilding Party	141,503	1.02	New	1	0	447,286	3.16	New	0	1	1	0.88	New
	Green Party	38,224	0.28	New	0	0	341,465	2.41	0.12	0	0		0.00	0.00
	New Party	–	–	–	0	0	147,373	1.04	3.14	0	0		0.00	0.00
	Taiwan Action Party Alliance	20,134	0.15	New	0	0	143,617	1.01	New	0	0		0.00	New
	Stabilizing Force Party	26,182	0.19	New	0	0	94,563	0.67	New	0	0		0.00	New
	Taiwan Solidarity Union	–	–	–	0	0	50,435	0.36	New	0	0		0.00	New
	Congress Party Alliance	81,508	0.59	New	0	0	40,331	0.28	New	0	0		0.00	New
	Chinese Unification Promotion Party	8,790	0.06	New	0	0	32,966	0.23	New	0	0		0.00	New
	Interfaith Union	7,702	0.06	New	0	0	31,117	0.22	New	0	0		0.00	New
	Formosa Alliance	9,207	0.07	New	0	0	29,324	0.21	New	0	0		0.00	New
	Labor Party	13,694	0.10	New	0	0	19,941	0.14	New	0	0		0.00	New
	United Action Alliance	14,817	0.11	New	0	0	17,515	0.12	New	0	0		0.00	New
	Taiwan Renewal Party	36,871	0.27	New	0	0	11,952	0.08	New	0	0		0.00	New
	Sovereign State for Formosa & Pescadores Party	5,697	0.04	New	0	0	11,681	0.08	New	0	0		0.00	New
	Others parties	34,791	0.25		0	0	-	-	-	0	0
	Independent	1,013,347	7.30		4	1	-	-	-	0	5	1	4.42	3.54
Blank and invalid votes		244,571	–	–	–	–	296,155	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Total		14,129,999	100.00		73	6	14,456,293	100.00		34	113
Registered voters/turnout		18,806,913	75.13				19,312,105	74.86
Central Election Commission

Notes

District and aboriginal electorate; party-list electorate size was 19,312,105
District and aboriginal electorate; party-list voter turnout was 74.86%
Proportional seats
Not yet established
District and aboriginal
District and aboriginal
former New Power Party member, re-elected in 2020
Number of seats reduced by one; all seats previously held by DPP
Elected member Su Chen-ching is a member of DPP but ran as an independent
Kao Chin Su-mei ran as an Independent in the election, but she is affiliated to the NPSU

References

"中選會資料庫網站". cec.gov.tw (in Chinese). Retrieved 29 January 2020.
Wang, Cheng-chung; Ko, Lin (19 March 2019). "Presidential, legislative elections to be held Jan. 11, 2020". Central News Agency. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
蘇嘉全、賴清德協商立委選區定案　僅屏東再微調 Mirror Media, 7 January 2019 (in Chinese)
"The 15th Presidential and Vice Presidential Election and The 10th Legislator Election". www.cec.gov.tw. Retrieved 12 January 2020..
"The 15th Presidential and Vice Presidential Election and The 10th Legislator Election". www.cec.gov.tw. Retrieved 12 January 2020..
"The 15th Presidential and Vice Presidential Election and The 10th Legislator Election". www.cec.gov.tw. Retrieved 12 January 2020..
"The 15th Presidential and Vice Presidential Election and The 10th Legislator Election". www.cec.gov.tw. Retrieved 12 January 2020..

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[2] District and aboriginal electorate; party-list electorate size was 19,312,105

[3] District and aboriginal electorate; party-list voter turnout was 74.86%

[party-list-4] Proportional seats

[last-5] Not yet established

[6] District and aboriginal

[7] District and aboriginal

[Freddy-10] rmer New Power Party member, re-elected in 2020

[constituency-11] Number of seats reduced by one; all seats previously held by DPP

[Su-12] Elected member Su Chen-ching is a member of DPP but ran as an independent

[fn1-13] Kao Chin Su-mei ran as an Independent in the election, but she is affiliated to the NPSU

[1] "中選會資料庫網站". cec.gov.tw (in Chinese). Retrieved 29 January 2020.

[8] Wang, Cheng-chung; Ko, Lin (19 March 2019). "Presidential, legislative elections to be held Jan. 11, 2020". Central News Agency. Retrieved 19 March 2019.

[9] 蘇嘉全、賴清德協商立委選區定案　僅屏東再微調 Mirror Media, 7 January 2019 (in Chinese)

[14] "The 15th Presidential and Vice Presidential Election and The 10th Legislator Election". www.cec.gov.tw. Retrieved 12 January 2020..

[15] "The 15th Presidential and Vice Presidential Election and The 10th Legislator Election". www.cec.gov.tw. Retrieved 12 January 2020..

[16] "The 15th Presidential and Vice Presidential Election and The 10th Legislator Election". www.cec.gov.tw. Retrieved 12 January 2020..

[17] "The 15th Presidential and Vice Presidential Election and The 10th Legislator Election". www.cec.gov.tw. Retrieved 12 January 2020..

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