2008 Taiwanese legislative election

2008 Taiwanese legislative election

← 2004 12 January 2008 (2008-01-12)[1] 2012 →

All 113 seats in the Legislative Yuan
57 seats needed for a majority
Registered17,179,656[a]
Turnout58.50%[b] Decrease 0.85 pp
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Wu Po-hsiung Chen Shui-bian
Party Kuomintang DPP
Alliance Pan-Blue Pan-Green
Last election 79 seats 89 seats
Seats won 81 27
Seat change Increase 2 Decrease 62
Constituency vote 5,291,512
53.50%
3,775,352
38.17%
Party vote 5,010,801
51.23%
3,610,106
36.91%
Constituency vote 239,317
2.42%
28,254
0.29%
Party vote 68,527
0.70%
Did not stand

Vote share by constituencies

Election cartogram

Legislative elections were held in Taiwan on 12 January 2008 to elect the members of the Legislative Yuan. It was the first Legislative Yuan election after the constitutional amendments of 2005, which extended term length from three to four years, reduced seat count from 225 to 113, and introduced the current electoral system.

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.

Two transitional justice referendums, both of which failed to pass due to low turnout, were held at the same time.

  1. ^ "中選會資料庫網站". cec.gov.tw (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 30 May 2020. Retrieved 29 January 2020.


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