Legislative Yuan elections

In Taiwan, elections are held every four years to elect the 113 members of the Legislative Yuan, the unicameral legislature of Taiwan. The current electoral system was introduced in 2008. The constitutional amendments of 2005 extended term length from three to four years, reduced seat count from 225 to 113.

Current electoral system

Members are elected by parallel voting:

Single-member constituencies
Main article: Legislative Yuan constituencies

The delimitation of the single-member constituencies within the cities and counties was initially a major political issue in the early years, with bargaining between the government and the legislature. Of the 15 cities and counties to be partitioned (the ten others have only one seat), only seven of the districting schemes proposed by the CEC were approved in a normal way. The eight other schemes were decided by drawing lots: "Taipei and Taichung cities and Miaoli and Changhua counties will adopt the version suggested by the CEC, while Kaohsiung city will follow the consensus of the legislature. Taipei county will follow the proposal offered by the opposition Taiwan Solidarity Union, Taoyuan county will adopt the ruling Democratic Progressive Party's scheme, and Pingtung county will use the scheme agreed upon by the Non-partisan Solidarity Union, People First Party, Kuomintang and Taiwan Solidarity Union."[1]

Under the Article 35 and 37 of the Civil Servants Election and Recall Act, the electoral constituencies are to be revised every ten years based on population of quota by the end of two years and two months before the tenure of current legislators ends, which is obtained by household investigation. The Central Election Commission reviews the boundaries then submit the proposal of altering electoral districts to the Legislative Yuan 20 months before the election for final consent and announcement.

Indigenous districts

Six seats are reserved for indigenous peoples. They are elected by single non-transferable vote in two 3-member constituencies for lowland aborigines and highland aborigines respectively. This system did not fulfil the promise in the treaty-like document A New Partnership Between the Indigenous Peoples and the Government of Taiwan, where each of the 13 recognised indigenous peoples was to get at least one seat, and the distinction between highland and lowland abolished.

Party-list

Seats are allocated using the largest remainder method with the Hare quota which, with 34 seats, is 2.9412%. A party's vote share must exceed a threshold of 5% to win any seats. Votes for parties which do not pass the threshold are first excluded. The vote share for the remaining parties are calculated. A party is allocated one seat for every 2.9412% of votes. The remaining seats are allocated in succession to the party with the largest remainder.

For each party, at least half of the legislators elected under this system must be female. Therefore, with an odd number of seats, females will always outnumber males.

List of Legislative Yuan elections
LY Year First party Status Seat composition Popular vote (Party list vote from 2008) Parties (by seat count)
10 2020 Democratic Progressive Party Majority (61/113)



9 2016 Democratic Progressive Party Majority (68/113)



8 2012 Kuomintang Majority (64/113)




7 2008 Kuomintang Majority (81/113)





6 2004 Democratic Progressive Party Minority (89/225)



5 2001 Democratic Progressive Party Minority (87/225)



4 1998 Kuomintang Majority (123/225)
  •      Kuomintang (123)
  •      Democratic Progressive (70)
  •      Other and Independents (12)
  •      New (11)
  •      Democratic Union (4)
  •      Nationwide Democratic Nonpartisan Union (3)
  •      New Nation Alliance (1)
  •      Taiwan Independence (1)
3 1995 Kuomintang Majority (85/161)





2 1992 Kuomintang Majority (95/161)





LYYearDateSeatsMain articleSame Day?
1supp.1969December 20111969 Taiwan legislative electionwith National Assembly
1st supp.1972December 23511972 Taiwan legislative electionwith National Assembly
2nd supp.1975December 20521975 Taiwan legislative electionno
3rd supp.1980December 6971980 Taiwan legislative electionwith National Assembly
4th supp.1983December 3981983 Taiwan legislative electionno
5th supp.1986December 61001986 Taiwan legislative electionwith National Assembly
6th supp.1989December 21301989 Taiwan legislative electionno

List of National Assembly elections in Taiwan

The National Assembly was another government organ that, along with the Legislative Yuan and Control Yuan (before 1992), was seen to constitute the Parliament in Taiwan. Following the constitutional reforms in the 1990s, the National Assembly was streamlined in 2000 and fully defunct in 2005.

OrderYearDateSeatsMain article
1stsupp.1969December 20151969 Taiwanese legislative election
1st supp.1972December 23531972 Taiwanese legislative election
2nd supp.1980December 61001980 Taiwanese legislative election
3rd supp.1986December 61001986 Taiwanese legislative election
2nd1991December 223251991 Taiwan National Assembly election
3rd1996March 233341996 Taiwan National Assembly election
ad hoc2005May 143002005 Taiwan National Assembly election
NA Year First party Status Seat composition Popular vote Parties (in order of seats)
2 1991 Kuomintang Majority (254/325)





3 1996 Kuomintang Majority (183/334)





ad hoc 2005 Democratic Progressive Party Minority (127/300)





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See also

References
  1. January 31, 2007.CEC Completes Legislative Constituency Redistricting Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine. Taiwan Headlines. Retrieved on 2008-01-12.
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