2020 Taiwanese legislative election

2020 Taiwanese legislative election
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All 113 seats in the Legislative Yuan; 57 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	74.93% ( 7.59pp)
	Election cartogram
President before election; Su Jia-chyuan; DPP	Elected President ; Yu Shyi-kun; DPP

Legislative elections were held in Taiwan on 11 January 2020 for all 113 seats to the Legislative Yuan concurrently with the 15th presidential election.^[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



Party		Party-list			Constituency/Aboriginal			Total seats	+/–
Party		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Total seats	+/–
	Democratic Progressive Party	4,811,241	33.98	13	6,383,783	45.11	48	61	–7
	Kuomintang	4,723,504	33.36	13	5,761,995	40.71	25	38	+3
	Taiwan People's Party	1,588,806	11.22	5	264,478	1.87	0	5	New
	New Power Party	1,098,100	7.75	3	141,952	1.00	0	3	–2
	People First Party	518,921	3.66	0	60,614	0.43	0	0	–3
	Taiwan Statebuilding Party	447,286	3.16	0	141,503	1.00	1	1	New
	Green Party Taiwan	341,465	2.41	0	39,387	0.28	0	0	0
	New Party	147,373	1.04	0				0	0
	Taiwan Action Party Alliance	143,617	1.01	0	20,134	0.14	0	0	New
	Stabilizing Force Party	94,563	0.67	0	28,696	0.20	0	0	New
	Taiwan Solidarity Union	50,435	0.36	0				0	0
	Congress Party Alliance	40,331	0.28	0	81,508	0.58	0	0	New
	Chinese Unification Promotion Party	32,966	0.23	0	8,790	0.06	0	0	0
	Interfaith Union	31,117	0.22	0	7,702	0.05	0	0	0
	Formosa Alliance	29,324	0.21	0	12,742	0.09	0	0	New
	Labor Party	19,941	0.14	0	13,694	0.10	0	0	0
	United Action Alliance	17,515	0.12	0	15,846	0.11	0	0	New
	Taiwan Renewal Party	11,952	0.08	0	41,891	0.30	0	0	New
	Sovereign State for Formosa & Pescadores Party	11,681	0.08	0	6,063	0.04	0	0	New
	Taiwan Animal Protection Party				7,660	0.05	0	0	New
	Chinese Women's Party				3,507	0.02	0	0	New
	Judicial Justice Party				3,336	0.02	0	0	New
	Labour Party				2,451	0.02	0	0	New
	Taiwan Revolutionary Party				2,088	0.01	0	0	New
	Taiwan Labor Party				2,041	0.01	0	0	0
	Cheng Hua Chao Sheng Dang				1,999	0.01	0	0	New
	People's Democratic Party				1,870	0.01	0	0	New
	Taiwan Motive Force Party				1,356	0.01	0	0	New
	Chinese Culture Revival Party				1,296	0.01	0	0	New
	Taiwan Independence Party				939	0.01	0	0	0
	Kinmen Kao-Liang Party				899	0.01	0	0	New
	Positive Party				623	0.00	0	0	New
	Tianzhou Peaceful Unity Family Party				574	0.00	0	0	New
	Chinese Peace Unification Party				570	0.00	0	0	New
	Taiwan Public Interest Party				534	0.00	0	0	New
	Round Party				488	0.00	0	0	New
	Chinese New Inhabitant Party				428	0.00	0	0	New
	Min Sheng Gong Yi				417	0.00	0	0	New
	Taiwan Manipulative Therapist Union Labour Party				366	0.00	0	0	New
	Deaf Nation Party				352	0.00	0	0	New
	Cheng Hua United Party				306	0.00	0	0	New
	Free Speech Coalition				290	0.00	0	0	New
	Hsing Chung Ting Meng Hui				155	0.00	0	0	New
	Chung Hua Ai Kuo Tung Hsin Dang				134	0.00	0	0	New
	Chinese Production Party				112	0.00	0	0	0
	Independents				1,086,463	7.68	5	5	+4
Total		14,160,138	100.00	34	14,152,032	100.00	79	113	0

Valid votes		14,160,138	97.95		14,152,032	98.26
Invalid/blank votes		296,155	2.05		250,043	1.74
Total votes		14,456,293	100.00		14,402,075	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		19,312,105	74.86		19,221,861	74.93
Source: CEC, Election Study Center

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 hold^[b]	Freddy Lim^[b]
	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 in redrawn constituency	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 in redrawn constituency	Ho Hsin-chun
	–	–	–		VIII	Kuomintang hold	Johnny Chiang
Tainan City	I	DPP hold in redrawn constituency	Lai Huei-yuen	Kaohsiung City^[c]	I	DPP hold	Chiu Yi-ying
	II	DPP hold in redrawn constituency	Kuo Kuo-wen		II	DPP hold	Chiu Chih-wei
	III	DPP hold in redrawn constituency	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 in redrawn constituency	Lin Jun-xian		V	DPP hold in redrawn constituency	Lee Kun-tse
	VI	DPP hold in redrawn constituency	Wang Ting-yu		VI	DPP hold in redrawn constituency	Chao Tien-lin
	–	–	–		VII	DPP hold	Hsu Chih-chieh
	–	–	–		VIII	DPP hold in redrawn constituency	Lai Jui-lung
Yilan County		DPP hold	Chen Ou-po	Hsinchu County	I	Kuomintang hold in redrawn constituency	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^[c]	I	DPP hold in redrawn constituency	Chung Chia-pin
Chiayi County	II	DPP hold	Chen Ming-wen	Pingtung County^[c]	II	Independent hold^[d]	Su Chen-ching^[d]
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	Cheng 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^[e]	Kao Chin Su-mei^[e]
		Kuomintang hold	Liao Kuo-tung			DPP gain from Kuomintang	Saidai Tarovecahe
		DPP hold	Chen Ying			Kuomintang hold	Kung Wen-chi

Aboriginal constituencies


Party		Lowlands			Highlands			Total seats	+/–
Party		Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Total seats	+/–
	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
	Taiwan Renewal Party	5,020	4.12	0				0	New
	Formosa Alliance	2,958	2.43	0	577	0.40	0	0	New
	Stabilizing Force Party	1,273	1.04	0	1,241	0.86	0	0	New
	Green Party Taiwan				1,163	0.80	0	0	0
	United Action Alliance	1,029	0.84	0				0	New
	Sovereign State for Formosa & Pescadores Party				366	0.25	0	0	New
	Independents	7,604	6.24	0	65,512	45.27	1	1	+1
Total		121,880	100.00	3	144,724	100.00	3	6	0

Valid votes		121,880	97.89		144,724	98.07
Invalid/blank votes		2,624	2.11		2,848	1.93
Total votes		124,504	100.00		147,572	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		199,833	62.30		215,115	68.60
Source: CEC^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]

Notes

^ District and aboriginal electorate; party-list voter turnout was 74.86%
^ ^a ^b Previously elected in 2020 as a member of New Power Party
^ ^a ^b Number of seats reduced by one; all seats previously held by DPP
^ ^a ^b Elected member Su Chen-ching is a member of DPP but ran as an independent
^ ^a ^b Kao Chin Su-mei ran as an Independent in the election, but she is affiliated to the NPSU^{[citation needed]}

References

^ "中選會資料庫網站". cec.gov.tw (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 30 May 2020. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
^ Wang, Cheng-chung; Ko, Lin (19 March 2019). "Presidential, legislative elections to be held Jan. 11, 2020". Central News Agency. Archived from the original on 21 March 2019. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
^ 蘇嘉全、賴清德協商立委選區定案　僅屏東再微調 Archived 9 January 2019 at the Wayback Machine Mirror Media, 7 January 2019 (in Chinese)
^ "The 15th Presidential and Vice Presidential Election and The 10th Legislator Election". www.cec.gov.tw. Archived from the original on 12 January 2020. Retrieved 12 January 2020..
^ "The 15th Presidential and Vice Presidential Election and The 10th Legislator Election". www.cec.gov.tw. Archived from the original on 12 January 2020. Retrieved 12 January 2020..
^ "The 15th Presidential and Vice Presidential Election and The 10th Legislator Election". www.cec.gov.tw. Archived from the original on 12 January 2020. Retrieved 12 January 2020..
^ "The 15th Presidential and Vice Presidential Election and The 10th Legislator Election". www.cec.gov.tw. Archived from the original on 12 January 2020. Retrieved 12 January 2020..

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

[Freddy-5] Previously elected in 2020 as a member of New Power Party

[constituency-6] Number of seats reduced by one; all seats previously held by DPP

[Su-7] Elected member Su Chen-ching is a member of DPP but ran as an independent

[fn1-8] Kao Chin Su-mei ran as an Independent in the election, but she is affiliated to the NPSU^{[citation needed]}

[1] "中選會資料庫網站". cec.gov.tw (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 30 May 2020. Retrieved 29 January 2020.

[3] Wang, Cheng-chung; Ko, Lin (19 March 2019). "Presidential, legislative elections to be held Jan. 11, 2020". Central News Agency. Archived from the original on 21 March 2019. Retrieved 19 March 2019.

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

[9] "The 15th Presidential and Vice Presidential Election and The 10th Legislator Election". www.cec.gov.tw. Archived from the original on 12 January 2020. Retrieved 12 January 2020..

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

[11] "The 15th Presidential and Vice Presidential Election and The 10th Legislator Election". www.cec.gov.tw. Archived from the original on 12 January 2020. Retrieved 12 January 2020..

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

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