Taiwanese legislative election, 2012

Taiwan legislative election, 2012

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14 January 2012

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

	First party	Second party

Leader	Ma Ying-jeou	Tsai Ing-wen
Party	Kuomintang	Democratic Progressive
Alliance	Pan-Blue	Pan-Green
Leader since	17 October 2009	20 May 2008
Last election	81 seats, 53.5%	27 seats, 38.2%
Seats before	72	33
Seats won	64	40
Seat change	8	7
Popular vote	5,863,379	4,556,526
Percentage	44.5%	34.6%

	Third party	Fourth party

Leader	Huang Kun-huei	James Soong Chu-yu
Party	TSU	People First Party (Taiwan)
Alliance	Pan-Green	Pan-Blue
Leader since	26 January 2007	31 March 2000
Last election	0 seats, 0%	1 seat, 0.9%
Seats before	0	1
Seats won	3	3
Seat change	3	2
Popular vote	1,178,896	722,089
Percentage	8.96%	5.49%

Results (constituency seats only):

KMT

DPP

NPSU

Independent

President of the
Legislative Yuan before election

Wang Jin-pyng
Kuomintang

Elected President of the
Legislative Yuan

Wang Jin-pyng
Kuomintang

The 8th Legislative elections was held on 14 January 2012 in Taiwan. Voting took place in all legislative constituencies and elected 113 members of the Legislative Yuan. For the first time legislative elections were held simultaneously with the presidential election. Elected parliamentarians formed the fifteenth Legislative Yuan session since 1946, when the current constitution came into effect.

According to the "Civil Servants Election And Recall Act", subsidies are payable to the political parties who sponsor candidates for Legislative Yuan elections. Article 43 has the following specifications:

Every year the state shall apportion subsidies for campaign to the political parties, and the standard of apportionment shall be determined based on the latest election of members of the Legislative Yuan. If a ratio of vote attained by the political party achieves not less than 5% in the national integrated election and the overseas election of central civil servants, the subsidy for campaign funds shall be granted to the political party by a rate of NT$50 per vote every year.

Voting took place on 14 January 2012 between 8 am and 4 pm local Taipei time at 14,806 polling stations nationwide.

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