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| Turnout | 66.27% ( 8.11pp) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Turnout | 66.25% ( 8.08pp, party-list) 66.34% ( 8.13pp, constituency) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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General elections were held inTaiwan, officially the Republic of China, on Saturday, 16 January 2016 to elect the 14thPresident andVice President of the Republic of China, and all 113 members of the ninthLegislative Yuan:[1]
The president and vice president election[2] was held inTaiwan on 16 January 2016.Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidateTsai Ing-wen with her independent running mateChen Chien-jen won overEric Chu of theKuomintang (KMT) andJames Soong of thePeople First Party (PFP). Tsai became the first female president in Taiwan, as well as the Chinese-speaking world.[3]
A second-time presidential candidate, Tsai secured the DPP's nomination uncontested as early as February 2015, while KMT candidateHung Hsiu-chu, who won the party's nomination in July 2015, was trailing behind Tsai by double digits.[4] Alarmed by Hung's perceived pro-Beijing stance, the KMT held an extraordinary party congress to nullify Hung's candidacy in a controversial move, and replaced her by the party chairman Eric Chu, less than a hundred days before the general election.[5] However, Chu did not fare much better than Hung in the polls, and it was almost certain that Tsai was going to win weeks before the election. Veteran politician James Soong also announced his presidential campaign for the fourth time, making the election a three-way contest.
Some 12 million voters, 66% of the total registered voters, cast their votes, the lowest turnout since the office was first directly elected in 1996.[6] Tsai won 6.89 million votes, leading Chu who received 3.81 million votes by 3.08 million votes, becoming the second highest winning margin behindfirst direct presidential election in 1996.[7] She also won with 56.1%, the second-largest vote share claimed by a presidential candidate sinceMa Ying-jeou in the2008 election. It was the second time the DPP won the presidency sinceChen Shui-bian won in 2000. The DPP also won theLegislative Yuan election on the same day, which secured a DPP majority in the legislature.
The Legislative Yuan election was held on 16 January 2016 for all 113 seats to theLegislative Yuan inTaiwan. TheDemocratic Progressive Party (DPP) led byTsai Ing-wen, who also won thepresidential election on the same day, secured a majority for the first time in history by winning 68 seats. The rulingKuomintang (KMT), lost both the presidency and the legislature, returned to the opposition.
The DPP managed to unseat the KMT in its traditional blue strongholds across Taiwan, turning districts in Taipei, Taichung and Hualien green, while KMT Vice ChairmanHau Lung-bin conceding defeat to relatively unknown city councillor Tsai Shih-ying from the DPP, becoming one of its biggest loses in the election. The year-oldNew Power Party (NPP) founded by young activists which emerged from the 2014Sunflower Movement also fared well to win five seats by defeating some of the KMT veterans.[8]
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