2020 Taiwanese general election

Taiwan General Election, 2020

Party DPP Kuomintang Alliance Pan-Green Coalition Pan-Blue Coalition

Incumbent President Tsai Ing-wen DPP

General elections will be held in Taiwan in 2020 to elect the President and the Legislative Yuan. The incumbent president Tsai Ing-wen is eligible for re-election.

Electoral system

Presidential candidates and vice-presidential running mates are elected on the same ticket, using first-past-the-post voting. This will be the seventh direct election of the president and vice president, the posts having previously been indirectly elected by the National Assembly until 1996.

The 113 members of the Legislative Yuan are elected by a supplementary member system, with 73 from geographical constituencies (General) via first-past-the-post, 6 from two 3-member aboriginal constituencies via single non-transferable vote, and 34 from closed list proportional representation (PR) via a national party vote.

Presidential election

Democratic Progressive Party

Further information: Democratic Progressive Party

Potential candidates

The incumbent president Tsai Ing-wen is eligible to run for a second term.

Name	Born	Current or previous positions	Ref
Tsai Ing-wen	August 31, 1956 (age 67) Taipei, Taiwan	Current President of the Republic of China Chairperson of the Democratic Progressive Party

Kuomintang

Further information: Kuomintang

Potential candidates

Name	Born	Current or previous positions	Ref
File:Eric-Chu-cropped.png Eric Chu	June 7, 1961 (age 62) Bade, Taoyuan, Taiwan	Mayor of New Taipei City 2016 Taiwan General Election Presidential Candidate
Wu Den-yih	January 30, 1948 (age 76) Caotun, Nantou, Taiwan	Chairman of the Kuomintang Former Vice President of the Republic of China
Terry Gou	October 8, 1950 (age 73) Banqiao, New Taipei, Taiwan	Founder and Chairman of Foxconn
Chiang Wan-an	December 26, 1978 (age 45) Taipei, Taiwan	Member of the Legislative Yuan since 2016.

Opinion polls

President

Date	Pollster	Sample size	Tsai Ing-Wen	Terry Gou	Eric Chu
17 May 2017	Taiwan Style Foundation	1,271	37.6	30.1	15.3

Party identification

Date	Source	File:Green Taiwan in White Cross.svg DPP	KMT	PFP	Newpowerpartlogo NPP	NP	Green	SD	File:Sunrise Island.svg TSU	MKT	Trees	Other	Undecided	Lead
19 Dec 2017	Taiwan's Election and Democracy Study	22.4%	25.6%	1.3%	5.9%	0.4%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%	43.2%	3.2%
30 Jan 2018	Taiwan Real Survey	18.1%	19.1%	2.1%	6.2%	0.9%	0.7%	-	0.0%	0.1%	-	-	52.8%	1.0%
26 Mar 2018	Taiwan's Election and Democracy Study	21.9%	24.7%	1.7%	4.8%	0.4%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	45.6%	2.6%
24 Jul 2018	Taiwan Real Survey	14.6%	23.1%	2.9%	6.0%	0.5%	0.8%	-	0.3%	0.1%	-	-	51.7%	8.5%
13 Aug 2018	Taiwan Real Survey	16.4%	21.3%	2.4%	6.8%	0.8%	1.2%	-	0.7%	0.1%	-	-	50.4%	4.9%
1 Sep 2018	Taiwan Real Survey	16.5%	21.8%	1.3%	4.7%	0.6%	1.1%	-	1.1%	0.7%	-	-	52.2%	5.3%
14 Sep 2018	Taiwan Real Survey	19.2%	30.8%	1.7%	5.3%	0.9%	1.0%	-	0.5%	0.3%	-	-	40.2%	11.6%