2012 Taiwanese legislative election

2012 Taiwanese legislative election

← 2008 14 January 2012 (2012-01-14)[1] 2016 →

All 113 seats in the Legislative Yuan
57 seats needed for a majority
Registered17,980,578[a]
Turnout74.47%[b] Increase 15.97 pp
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Ma Ying-jeou Tsai Ing-wen
Party Kuomintang DPP
Leader since 17 October 2009 20 May 2008
Last election 81 seats 27 seats
Seats won 64 40
Seat change Decrease 17 Increase 13
Constituency vote 6,339,301
48.18%

Increase 5.32pp
5,763,186
43.80%
Increase 5.63pp
Party vote 5,863,379
44.55%

Decrease 6.68pp
4,556,526
34.62%
Decrease 2.29pp

  Third party Fourth party
 
Leader Huang Kun-huei James Soong
Party TSU People First
Leader since 26 January 2007 31 March 2000
Last election 0 seats 1 seat
Seats won 3 3
Seat change Increase 3 Increase 2
Constituency vote Did not stand 175,032
1.33%
Increase 1.04pp
Party vote 1,178,896
8.96%
Increase 3.53pp
722,089
5.49%
[c]


Election cartogram

President before election

Wang Jin-pyng
Kuomintang

Elected President

Wang Jin-pyng
Kuomintang

The 2012 Taiwanese legislative election was held on 16 January 2012 for all 113 seats in 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. Voting took place on 14 January 2012 between 08:00 and 16:00 local Taipei time at 14,806 polling stations nationwide.[2]

  1. ^ "中選會資料庫網站". cec.gov.tw (in Chinese). Retrieved 29 January 2020.
  2. ^ CEC finalizes two-in-one poll preparations Archived 29 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine Taiwan Today. 13 January 2012


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