Republic of China legislative election, 2001

Taiwan legislative election, 2001

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1 December 2001

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All 225 seats to the Legislative Yuan
113 seats are needed for a majority

	Majority party	Minority party

Leader	Chen Shui-bian	Lien Chan
Party	Democratic Progressive	Kuomintang
Leader since	May 20, 2000	March 20, 2000
Last election	70 seats, 29.56%	123 seats, 46.43%
Seats before	70	122
Seats won	87	68
Seat change	18	55
Popular vote	3,447,740	2,949,371
Percentage	36.6%	31.3%

	Third party	Fourth party

Leader	James Soong Chu-yu	Lee Teng-hui (paramount leader)
Party	People First	TSU
Leader since	March 31, 2000	August 12, 2001
Last election	—	—
Seats before	0	0
Seats won	46	13
Seat change	46	13
Popular vote	1,917,836	801,560
Percentage	20.3%	8.5%

Election results

President of the
Legislative Yuan before election

Wang Jin-pyng
Kuomintang

Elected President of the
Legislative Yuan

Wang Jin-pyng
Kuomintang

The Election for the 5th Legislative Yuan (Chinese: 五屆立法委員選舉) of Taiwan was held on 1 December 2001. All 225 seats of the Legislative Yuan were up for election: 168 elected by popular vote, 41 elected on the basis of the proportion of nationwide votes received by participating political parties, eight elected from overseas Chinese constituencies on the basis of the proportion of nationwide votes received by participating political parties, eight elected by popular vote among the Taiwanese aboriginal populations. Members served three year terms from February 1, 2002 to February 1, 2005.

The first national election to be held after Chen Shui-bian's victory in the 2000 presidential election, the election resulted for the first time in the Kuomintang (KMT) losing its majority and President Chen's Democratic Progressive Party to emerging as the largest party in the legislature. However, the Pan-Blue Coalition developed between the Kuomintang, the People First Party and the New Party, enabled the Chinese reunificationist and conservative opposition to muster a slim majority over the pro-Taiwan independence Pan-Green Coalition formed between the Democratic Progressive Party and the Taiwan Solidarity Union. This resulted in much of President Chen's agenda being derailed or deadlocked for the following three years.

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