Republic of China presidential election, 2012

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14 January 2012

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Turnout	74.38%

Candidate	Ma Ying-jeou	Tsai Ing-wen	James Soong
Party	Kuomintang	Democratic Progressive	People First Party (Taiwan)
Alliance	Pan-Blue	Pan-Green	Pan-Blue
Running mate	Wu Den-yih	Su Jia-chyuan	Lin Ruey-shiung
Popular vote	6,891,139	6,093,578	369,588
Percentage	51.60%	45.63%	2.77%

Leaders in township-level units:

Ma-Wu Ticket

Tsai-Su Ticket

President before election

Ma Ying-jeou
Kuomintang

Elected President

Ma Ying-jeou
Kuomintang

Taiwan presidential election, 2012

Traditional Chinese

第十三任中華民國總統副總統選舉

Transcriptions

Transcriptions

Ma Ying-jeou
Kuomintang

The election for the 13th-term President and Vice-President of the Republic of China was held in Taiwan on 14 January 2012. The election was held concurrently with legislative elections. It was the fifth direct election for the President of Taiwan. Prior to 1996, the President was elected by the ROC's National Assembly and not directly by the people.

Incumbent Ma Ying-jeou was re-elected as President with 51.6% of the vote. DPP challenger Tsai Ing-wen resigned her post as chairperson of the DPP following her election defeat.

The Kuomintang (KMT or Chinese Nationalist Party) ticket won a landslide victory in 2008 over the incumbent Democratic Progressive Party, with a 2.2 million vote margin on 58% of the valid votes.

The administration of Ma Ying-jeou has been more friendly in policy towards the People's Republic of China and also signed the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA), a preferential trade agreement between the governments of China (PRC) and Taiwan (ROC).

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