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Taiwan presidential election, 2016

Taiwan presidential election, 2016
Taiwan
← 2012 16 January 2016 (2016-01-16) 2020 →
Turnout 66.27%
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Nominee Tsai Ing-wen Eric Chu James Soong
Party Democratic Progressive Kuomintang People First
Alliance Pan-Green Coalition Pan-Blue Coalition None
Running mate Chen Chien-jen
(Independent)
Wang Ju-hsuan
(Independent)
Hsu Hsin-ying
(Minkuotang)
Popular vote 6,894,744 3,813,365 1,576,861
Percentage 56.1% 31.0% 12.8%

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Leaders in third-level divisions:
  Tsai-Chen Ticket
  Chu-Wang Ticket
  Soong-Hsu Ticket

President before election

Ma Ying-jeou
Kuomintang

Elected President

Tsai Ing-wen
Democratic Progressive

Taiwan legislative election, 2016
Taiwan
← 2012 16 January 2016

All 113 seats to the Legislative Yuan
57 seats needed for a majority
  Majority party Minority party Third party
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Leader Tsai Ing-wen Eric Chu Huang Kuo-chang
Party Democratic Progressive Kuomintang New Power
Alliance Pan-Green Pan-Blue
Leader since 28 May 2014 19 January 2015 13 September 2015
Last election 40
District: 44.45%
PR: 34.62%
64
District: 48.12%
PR: 44.55%
New party
District: N/A
PR: N/A
Seats before 40 64 N/A
Seats won 68 35 5
Seat change Increase 28 Decrease 29 Increase 5
Percentage District: 45.08%
PR: 44.04%
District: 38.71%
PR: 26.90%
District: 2.94%
PR: 6.10%

  Fourth party Fifth party
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Leader James Soong Lin Pin-kuan
Party People First Non-Partisan Solidarity Union
Alliance None People First
Leader since 31 March 2000 15 June 2007
Last election 3
District: 1.12%
PR: 5.49%
2
District: 1.08%
PR: N/A
Seats before 3 1
Seats won 3 1
Seat change Steady 0 Decrease1
Percentage District: 1.26%
PR: 6.52%
District: N/A
PR: 0.64%

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Results (constituency seats only):
  DPP
  KMT
  NPP
  Independent

President of the
Legislative Yuan before election

Wang Jin-pyng
Kuomintang

Elected President of the
Legislative Yuan

Su Jia-chyuan
Democratic Progressive


Ma Ying-jeou
Kuomintang

Tsai Ing-wen
Democratic Progressive

General elections were held in Taiwan, officially the Republic of China, on Saturday, 16 January 2016 to elect the 14th President and Vice President of the Republic of China (Taiwan), and all 113 members of the ninth Legislative Yuan.Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) was elected President with 56% of the vote and defeated her rival the KMT's Eric Chu, the second-largest vote share claimed by a presidential candidate since Ma Ying-jeou of the Kuomintang (KMT) won with 58.45% of the vote in the 2008 election, and the largest winning margin (25.08%) since the first direct presidential election in 1996.

Tsai's party, the Democratic Progressive Party, also secured a majority in the legislature, marking the first time that the DPP can govern alone with over a majority. This was unlike the election of 2000, where the DPP won the presidency but did not receive over 50% of the votes. The election marked the first time the Kuomintang lost its majority in the legislature.

The Central Election Commission reported that turnout for the presidential election was 66.27% of voters, the lowest turnout since the office was first directly elected in 1996.

Presidential candidates and vice-presidential running mates are elected on the same ticket, using first-past-the-post. Due to constitutional two-term limits, incumbent president Ma Ying-jeou was ineligible to seek re-election. This was the sixth direct election of the president and vice president by the citizens of Taiwan, which was previously indirectly elected by the National Assembly prior to 1996.


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