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Republic of China legislative election, 2008

Taiwan legislative election, 2008
Taiwan
← 2004 January 12, 2008 2012 →

All 113 seats to the Legislative Yuan
57 seats are needed for a majority
Turnout 58.5%
  Majority party Minority party
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Leader Wu Po-hsiung Chen Shui-bian
Party Kuomintang Democratic Progressive
Alliance Pan-Blue Pan-Green
Leader since February 27, 2007 May 20, 2000
Last election 79 seats, 34.90% 89 seats, 37.98%
Seats won 81 27
Popular vote 5,010,801 3,610,106
Percentage 51.2% 36.9%

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Election results:
  Kuomintang
  DPP
  Non-Partisan Solidarity Union
  Independent

President of the
Legislative Yuan before election

Wang Jin-pyng
Kuomintang

Elected President of the
Legislative Yuan

Wang Jin-pyng
Kuomintang


Wang Jin-pyng
Kuomintang

Wang Jin-pyng
Kuomintang

The 7th Legislative elections were held on January 12, 2008 in Taiwan. The results gave the Kuomintang (KMT) and the Pan-Blue Coalition a supermajority (86 of the 113 seats) in the legislature, handing a heavy defeat to then-President Chen Shui-bian's Democratic Progressive Party, which won the remaining 27 seats only. The junior partner in the Pan-Green Coalition, the Taiwan Solidarity Union, won no seats.

These elections elected the first set of legislators to serve a longer four-year term in the Legislative Yuan, after an amendment in the Constitution in 2005, which intended to synchronize the legislative and presidential elections and reduce the size of the Legislative Yuan by half (see Taiwan National Assembly election, 2005). Two transitional justice referendums, both of which failed to pass due to low turnout, were held at the same time.

For the first time in the history of Taiwan, most members of the Legislative Yuan were to be elected from single-member districts: 73 of the 113 members were chosen in such districts by the plurality voting system (first-past-the-post). Parallel to the single member constituencies, 34 seats under an Additional Member System were elected in one national district by party-list proportional representation. For these seats, only political parties whose votes exceed a five percent threshold were eligible for the allocation. Six further seats were reserved for Taiwanese aborigines. Therefore, each elector had two ballots under parallel voting.


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