Lowland Aborigine Constituency

The Lowland Aborigine constituency (Chinese: 平地原住民選舉區; pinyin: Píngdì Yuán Zhùmín Xuǎnjǔ Qū) is a multi-member constituency of the Legislative Yuan. Taiwanese indigenous people have elected representatives to reserved legislative seats since the 1970s.[1] Predecessors to both the Lowland and Highland Aborigine districts were established in 1994.[2] Since 2008 the Lowland Taiwanese indigenous elect three members to the Legislative Yuan.

Lowland Aborigine district
Multi-member Constituency
for the Legislative Yuan
ElectorateTaiwanese Plains Aborigines
Current constituency
Created2008
Member(s)Yang Jen-fu (2008–2012)
Liao Kuo-tung (2008–)
Lin Cheng-er (2008–2016)
Sra Kacaw (2012–)
Chen Ying (2016–)

Legislators
Election Representative Representative Representative
2008 Yang Jen-fu
Kuomintang		 Liao Kuo-tung
Kuomintang		 Lin Cheng-er
People First Party
2012 Sra Kacaw
Kuomintang
2016 Chen Ying
Democratic Progressive Party
2020

Election results

References
  1. Hale, Erin (8 January 2020). "'Always campaign time': Why Taiwan's indigenous people back KMT". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
  2. Gerber, Abraham (10 April 2016). "Campaigners pan empty Aboriginal legislative seats". Taipei Times. Retrieved 10 April 2016.

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