2020 Taiwanese legislative election

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2020 Taiwanese legislative election
← 2016 11 January 2020 (2020-01-11)[1] 2024 →
All 113 seats in the Legislative Yuan
57 seats needed for a majority
Registered19,221,861[a]
Turnout74.93%[b] Increase 7.59 pp
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
Leader Cho Jung-tai Wu Den-yih Ko Wen-je
Party DPP Kuomintang TPP
Leader since 9 January 2019 20 August 2017 6 August 2019
Last election 68 seats, 44.06%[c] 35 seats, 26.91%[c] Did not stand[d]
Seats won 61 38 5
Seat change Decrease 7 Increase 3 Increase 5
Popular vote 4,811,241[c] 4,723,504[c] 1,588,806[c]
Percentage 33.98% 33.36% 11.22%
Swing Decrease 10.08 pp Increase 6.44 pp New party
Constituency seats won[e] 48 25 0
  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Leader Hsu Yung-ming Chen Yi-chi
Party NPP Statebuilding
Leader since 21 August 2019 15 May 2016
Last election 5 seats, 6.11%[c] Did not stand[d]
Seats won 3 1
Seat change Decrease 2 Increase 1
Popular vote 1,098,100[c] 447,286[c]
Percentage 7.75% 3.16%
Swing Increase 1.65 pp New party
Constituency seats won[e] 0 1
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

Main article: Legislative Yuan elections in Taiwan

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
bgcolor="Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color" | Democratic Progressive Party 67 2 33 102
bgcolor="Template:Kuomintang/meta/color" | Kuomintang 71 5 31 107
bgcolor="Template:Taiwan People's Party/meta/color" | Taiwan People's Party 17 － 28 45
bgcolor="Template:New Power Party/meta/color" | New Power Party 5 － 11 16
Taiwan Statebuilding Party 10 － 6 16
bgcolor="Template:People First Party (Taiwan)/meta/color" | People First Party 10 － 22 32
bgcolor="Template:Green Party Taiwan/meta/color" | Green Party 10 1 6 17
bgcolor="Template:New Party Taiwan/meta/color" | New Party － － 10 10
Taiwan Action Party Alliance 11 － 5 16
Stabilizing Force Party 9 2 10 21
bgcolor="Template:Taiwan Solidarity Union/meta/color" | 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
bgcolor="Template:Independent politician/meta/color" | Independent 86 5 － 91
Others 26 0 0 26
Total 410 21 216 647

Opinion polling

Main article: Opinion polling for the 2020 Taiwanese general election

Results

See also: Tenth Legislative Yuan

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 %
style="background:Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color;" | Democratic Progressive Party Cho Jung-tai 61 Decrease 7 53.98%
61 / 113
 48 6,383,783 45.11%
13 4,811,241 33.98%
style="background:Template:Kuomintang/meta/color;" | Kuomintang Wu Den-yih 38 Increase 3 33.63%
38 / 113
 25 5,761,995 40.72%
13 4,723,504 33.36%
style="background:Template:Taiwan People's Party/meta/color;" | Taiwan People's Party Ko Wen-je 5 New 4.42%
5 / 113
 0 264,478 1.87%
5 1,588,806 11.22%
style="background:Template:New Power Party/meta/color;" | New Power Party Hsu Yung-ming 3 Decrease 2 2.65%
3 / 113
 0 141,952 1.00%
3 1,098,100 7.75%
style="background:Template:Taiwan Statebuilding Party/meta/color;" | 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 Result Elected member Constituency Result Elected member
New Taipei City I bgcolor="Template:Kuomintang/meta/color" | Kuomintang gain from DPP Hung Mong-kai Taipei City I bgcolor="Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color" | DPP hold Rosalia Wu
II bgcolor="Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color" | DPP hold Lin Shu-fen II bgcolor="Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color" | DPP hold Ho Chih-wei
III bgcolor="Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color" | DPP hold Yu Tian III bgcolor="Template:Kuomintang/meta/color" | Kuomintang hold Chiang Wan-an
IV bgcolor="Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color" | DPP hold Wu Ping-jui IV bgcolor="Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color" | DPP gain from Kuomintang Kao Chia-yu
V bgcolor="Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color" | DPP hold Su Chiao-hui V bgcolor="Template:Independent politician/meta/color" | Independent gain from New Power[f] Freddy Lim[f]
VI bgcolor="Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color" | DPP hold Chang Hung-lu VI bgcolor="Template:Kuomintang/meta/color" | Kuomintang hold Lin Yi-hua
VII bgcolor="Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color" | DPP hold Lo Chih-cheng VII bgcolor="Template:Kuomintang/meta/color" | Kuomintang hold Fai Hrong-tai
VIII bgcolor="Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color" | DPP hold Chiang Yung-chang VIII bgcolor="Template:Kuomintang/meta/color" | Kuomintang hold Lai Shyh-bao
IX bgcolor="Template:Kuomintang/meta/color" | Kuomintang hold Lin Te-fu – – –
X bgcolor="Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color" | DPP hold Wu Chi-ming – – –
XI bgcolor="Template:Kuomintang/meta/color" | Kuomintang hold Lo Ming-tsai – – –
XII bgcolor="Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color" | DPP gain from New Power Lai Pin-yu – – –
Taoyuan City I bgcolor="Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color" | DPP hold Cheng Yun-peng Taichung City I bgcolor="Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color" | DPP hold Tsai Chi-chang
II bgcolor="Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color" | DPP hold Huang Shier-chieh II bgcolor="Template:Taiwan Statebuilding Party/meta/color" | Statebuilding gain from Kuomintang Chen Po-wei
III bgcolor="Template:Kuomintang/meta/color" | Kuomintang hold Lu Ming-che III bgcolor="Template:Kuomintang/meta/color" | Kuomintang gain from New Power Yang Chiung-ying
IV bgcolor="Template:Kuomintang/meta/color" | Kuomintang gain from DPP Wan Mei-ling IV bgcolor="Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color" | DPP hold Chang Liao Wan-chien
V bgcolor="Template:Kuomintang/meta/color" | Kuomintang hold Lu Yu-ling V bgcolor="Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color" | DPP gain from Kuomintang Zhuang Ching-cheng
VI bgcolor="Template:Independent politician/meta/color" | Independent hold Chao Cheng-yu VI bgcolor="Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color" | DPP hold Huang Kuo-shu
– – – VII bgcolor="Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color" | DPP hold Ho Hsin-chun
– – – VIII bgcolor="Template:Kuomintang/meta/color" | Kuomintang hold Johnny Chiang
Tainan City I bgcolor="Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color" | DPP hold Lai Huei-yuen Kaohsiung City[g] I bgcolor="Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color" | DPP hold Chiu Yi-ying
II bgcolor="Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color" | DPP hold Kuo Kuo-wen II bgcolor="Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color" | DPP hold Chiu Chih-wei
III bgcolor="Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color" | DPP hold Chen Ting-fei III bgcolor="Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color" | DPP hold Liu Shyh-fang
IV bgcolor="Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color" | DPP gain new seat Lin I-chin IV bgcolor="Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color" | DPP hold Lin Tai-hua
V bgcolor="Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color" | DPP hold Lin Jun-xian V bgcolor="Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color" | DPP hold Lee Kun-tse
VI bgcolor="Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color" | DPP hold Wang Ting-yu VI bgcolor="Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color" | DPP hold Chao Tien-lin
– – – VII bgcolor="Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color" | DPP hold Hsu Chih-chieh
– – – VIII bgcolor="Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color" | DPP hold Lai Jui-lung
Yilan County rowspan="2" bgcolor="Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color" | DPP hold Chen Ou-po Hsinchu County I bgcolor="Template:Kuomintang/meta/color" | Kuomintang hold Lin Wei-chou
II bgcolor="Template:Kuomintang/meta/color" | Kuomintang gain new seat Lin Si-ming
Miaoli County I bgcolor="Template:Kuomintang/meta/color" | Kuomintang hold Chen Chao-ming Changhua County I bgcolor="Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color" | DPP gain from Kuomintang Chen Hsiu-bao
II bgcolor="Template:Kuomintang/meta/color" | Kuomintang hold Hsu Chih-jung II bgcolor="Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color" | DPP hold Huang Hsiu-fang
– – – III bgcolor="Template:Kuomintang/meta/color" | Kuomintang gain from DPP Hsieh Yi-fong
– – – IV bgcolor="Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color" | DPP hold Chen Su-yueh
Nantou County I bgcolor="Template:Kuomintang/meta/color" | Kuomintang hold Ma Wen-chun Yunlin County I bgcolor="Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color" | DPP hold Su Chin-feng
II bgcolor="Template:Kuomintang/meta/color" | Kuomintang hold Hsu Shu-hua II bgcolor="Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color" | DPP hold Liu Chien-kuo
Chiayi County I bgcolor="Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color" | DPP hold Tsai Yi-yu Pingtung County[g] I bgcolor="Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color" | DPP hold Chung Chia-pin
II bgcolor="Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color" | DPP hold Chen Ming-wen II bgcolor="Template:Independent politician/meta/color" | Independent gain from DPP[h] Su Chen-ching[h]
Taitung County bgcolor="Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color" | DPP hold Liu Chao-how Hualien County bgcolor="Template:Independent politician/meta/color" | Independent gain from DPP Fu Kun-chi
Penghu County bgcolor="Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color" | DPP hold Yang Yao Keelung City bgcolor="Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color" | DPP hold Cai Shi-ying
Hsinchu City bgcolor="Template:Kuomintang/meta/color" | Kuomintang gain from DPP Chemg Cheng-chien Chiayi City bgcolor="Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color" | DPP hold Wang Mei-hui
Kinmen County bgcolor="Template:Kuomintang/meta/color" | Kuomintang hold Chen Yu-chen Lienchiang County bgcolor="Template:Kuomintang/meta/color" | Kuomintang hold Cheng Hsueh-sheng
Lowland Aborigine bgcolor="Template:Kuomintang/meta/color" | Kuomintang hold Sra Kacaw Highland Aborigine bgcolor="Template:Independent politician/meta/color" | Independent hold[i] Kao Chin Su-mei[i]
bgcolor="Template:Kuomintang/meta/color" | Kuomintang hold Liao Kuo-tung bgcolor="Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color" | DPP gain from Kuomintang Saidai Tarovecahe
bgcolor="Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color" | DPP hold Chen Ying bgcolor="Template:Kuomintang/meta/color" | Kuomintang hold Kung Wen-chi

Results by party-list

2020 Taiwanese legislative party list results
S/N Party Votes Raw % Swing (pp) Re-allocated
% 		Seats Elected members
14 align="left" bgcolor="Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color" | Democratic Progressive Party 4,811,241 33.98 Decrease 10.08 39.37 13 Decrease 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 align="left" bgcolor="Template:Kuomintang/meta/color" | Kuomintang 4,723,504 33.36 Increase 6.45 38.65 13 Increase 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 align="left" bgcolor="Template:Taiwan People's Party/meta/color" | Taiwan People's Party 1,588,806 11.22 New 13.00 5 Increase 5 Lai Hsiang-lin, Jang Chyi-lu, Kao Hung-an, Chiu Chen-yuan, Tsai Pi-ru
6 align="left" bgcolor="Template:New Power Party/meta/color" | New Power Party 1,098,100 7.75 Increase 1.64 8.98 3 Increase 1 Chen Jiau-hua, Chiu Hsien-chih, Claire Wang
3 align="left" bgcolor="Template:People First Party (Taiwan)/meta/color" | People First Party 518,921 3.66 Decrease 2.86 – 0 Decrease 3 –
5 Taiwan Statebuilding Party 447,286 3.16 New – 0 Steady –
12 align="left" bgcolor="Template:Green Party Taiwan/meta/color" | Green Party 341,465 2.41 Increase 0.12 – 0 Steady –
7 align="left" bgcolor="Template:New Party Taiwan/meta/color" | New Party 147,373 1.04 Decrease 3.14 – 0 Steady –
10 Taiwan Action Party Alliance 143,617 1.01 New – 0 Steady –
4 Stabilizing Force Party 94,563 0.67 New – 0 Steady –
19 align="left" bgcolor="Template:Taiwan Solidarity Union/meta/color" | Taiwan Solidarity Union 50,435 0.36 New – 0 Steady –
18 Congress Party Alliance 40,331 0.28 New – 0 Steady –
2 Chinese Unification Promotion Party 32,966 0.23 New – 0 Steady –
13 Interfaith Union 31,117 0.22 New – 0 Steady –
8 Formosa Alliance 29,324 0.21 New – 0 Steady –
11 Labour Party 19,941 0.14 New – 0 Steady –
1 United Action Alliance 17,515 0.12 New – 0 Steady –
16 Taiwan Renewal Party 11,952 0.08 New – 0 Steady –
17 Sovereign State for Formosa & Pescadores Party 11,681 0.08 New – 0 Steady –
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 +/-
Votes % Seats Votes % Seats
bgcolor=Template:Kuomintang/meta/color| Kuomintang 78,153 64.12 2 50,093 34.61 1 3 -1
bgcolor= Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color | Democratic Progressive Party 25,843 21.20 1 25,772 17.81 1 2 +1
bgcolor=Template:Green Party Taiwan/meta/color | 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

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See also

Notes

  1. ^ District and aboriginal electorate; party-list electorate size was 19,312,105
  2. ^ District and aboriginal electorate; party-list voter turnout was 74.86%
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h Proportional seats
  4. ^ a b Not yet established
  5. ^ District and aboriginal
  6. ^ a b former New Power Party member, re-elected in 2020
  7. ^ a b Number of seats reduced by one; all seats previously held by DPP
  8. ^ a b Elected member Su Chen-ching is a member of DPP but ran as an independent
  9. ^ a b Kao Chin Su-mei ran as an Independent in the election, but she is affiliated to the NPSU[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ "中選會資料庫網站". cec.gov.tw (in Chinese). Retrieved 29 January 2020.
  2. ^ Wang, Cheng-chung; Ko, Lin (19 March 2019). "Presidential, legislative elections to be held Jan. 11, 2020". Central News Agency. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
  3. ^ 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)
  4. ^ "The 15th Presidential and Vice Presidential Election and The 10th Legislator Election". www.cec.gov.tw. Retrieved 12 January 2020..
  5. ^ "The 15th Presidential and Vice Presidential Election and The 10th Legislator Election". www.cec.gov.tw. Retrieved 12 January 2020..
  6. ^ "The 15th Presidential and Vice Presidential Election and The 10th Legislator Election". www.cec.gov.tw. Retrieved 12 January 2020..
  7. ^ "The 15th Presidential and Vice Presidential Election and The 10th Legislator Election". www.cec.gov.tw. Retrieved 12 January 2020..
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