Kuomintang chairmanship election, 2015

Kuomintang chairmanship election, 2015

17 January 2015

Nominee Eric Chu Popular vote 196,065 Percentage 99.61%

Chairman before election Ma Ying-jeou Wu Den-yih (acting) Elected Chairman Eric Chu

The Chinese Kuomintang chairmanship election of 2015 (Chinese: 2015年中國國民黨主席補選) was held on 17 January 2015 in Taiwan. This was the fifth direct election of the chairman in the Kuomintang history. All registered, due-paying KMT party members were eligible to vote.

History

The election was called after Ma Ying-jeou resigned from the Kuomintang Chairmanship to take responsibility for the party's heavy losses during the local elections held on 29 November 2014. Eric Chu, who had just been reelected Mayor of New Taipei in the November elections, ran uncontested.

Result

Candidate	Total votes cast	Percentage of vote
Eric Chu	196,065	99.61%
Voter turnout	56.34%

Chu garnered 99.61% of all votes, setting a new KMT record for percentage of votes won.

Reactions

• Democratic Progressive Party - Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen sent congratulatory flowers and a message to KMT headquarters after the polls closed. The message read, in part, "heavy responsibilities, long road ahead."

• Communist Party of China - Secretary-General Xi Jinping congratulated Chu immediately after the election. He expressed that the two sides of the Taiwan Strait could continue adhering the 1992 Consensus and oppose Taiwan independence to push for the peaceful development of Cross-Strait relations.

See also

• Elections in the Republic of China
• List of leaders of the Kuomintang

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