1975 Taiwanese legislative election

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The third supplementary elections for the Legislative Yuan were held in the Republic of China (Taiwan) on 20 December 1975. [1]

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Compared with the second supplementary election the number of new delegates to the Legislative Yuan had been increased by one to 52, because of an increase in population. Of these, 37 were to be elected directly to represent Taiwan Province and the special municipality of Taipei. The remaining 15 seats were to represent overseas nationals and were appointed by the President.

Turnout for the supplementary election of the Legislative Yuan was 75.97% of 8,410,775 eligible votes. Of the 37 elected delegates, 30 belonged to the Kuomintang, one belonged to the Chinese Youth Party, and 6 were independent. All members chosen were born on Taiwan except for 5 delegates, who (or their parents) were from the Mainland.

Results

PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Kuomintang 4,942,46179.4642+1
Chinese Youth Party 143,9922.3110
Independents1,133,98118.2390
Total6,220,434100.0052+1
Valid votes6,220,43497.36
Invalid/blank votes168,8772.64
Total votes6,389,311100.00
Registered voters/turnout8,410,77575.97
Source: Executive Yuan, Dong [2]

By constituency

ConstituencySeatsElectorateTurnout%PartyVotes%Seats
won
Taipei City51,013,279578,98957.14 Kuomintang 356,80963.013
Independents209,35936.992
Taiwan I31,077,411768,46371.32 Kuomintang 305,93641.412
Chinese Youth Party 143,99219.491
Independents288,87139.10
Taiwan II3903,559823,35591.12 Kuomintang 809,3671003
Taiwan III51,404,1521,108,68478.96 Kuomintang 951,53388.054
Independents129,03511.951
Taiwan IV51,442,2041,104,95576.62 Kuomintang 914,45684.914
Independents162,46815.091
Taiwan V41,256,684929,58373.97 Kuomintang 693,41389.284
Independents213,33210.720
Taiwan VI1229,718187,35881.56 Kuomintang 155,17484.991
Independents27,40915.010
Fujian130,30729,74498.14 Kuomintang 29,4361001
Highland Aborigine1124,896114,01791.29 Kuomintang 112,5901001
Farmers2329,169299,32290.93 Kuomintang 288,1881002
Fishermen181,82961,98275.75 Kuomintang 60,7161001
Workers2367,088266,99672.73 Kuomintang 173,14268.001
Independents81,48032.001
Industrial group121,22113,62764.21 Kuomintang 12,7661001
Business group187,40366,75176.37 Kuomintang 46,63473.241
Independents17,03826.760
Education group141,85538,43788.71 Kuomintang 32,30186.991
Independents4,82913.010
Source: Dong [2]

References

  1. Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p535 ISBN   0-19-924959-8
  2. 1 2 Dong, Xiangfei (1984). The General Conditions Regarding Elections in the Republic of China.

Further reading

Copper, John F. and George P. Chen (1984), Taiwan’s Elections. Political Development and Democratization in the Republic of China, [Baltimore, Md.], Occasional Papers/Reprints Series in Contemporary Asian Studies, no. 5-1984 (64), ISBN   0-942182-66-9