1989 Taiwanese legislative election

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1989 Taiwanese legislative election
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  1986 2 December 1989 1992  

All 130 seats in the Legislative Yuan
65 seats needed for a majority
 Majority partyMinority partyThird party
  19700105Huang Xin Jie .jpg Li Huang.jpg
Leader Lee Teng-hui Huang Hsin-chieh Li Huang
Party Kuomintang DPP Youth
Alliance Pan-Blue Pan-Green
Seats before83122
Seats won94211
Seat changeIncrease2.svg11Increase2.svg9Decrease2.svg1

Legislative elections were held in Taiwan on 2 December 1989 to elect members of the Legislative Yuan. [1]

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Background

Compared with the sixth supplementary election the number of new delegates to the Legislative Yuan had been increased from 100 to 130. Of these, 101 were to be elected directly representing Taiwan Province and the special municipalities of Taipei City and Kaohsiung City. The remaining 29 seats were to represent overseas nationals, these delegates were appointed by the President.

Results

Turnout for the supplementary election was 75.5%. Of the 101 directly elected delegates, 72 belonged to the Kuomintang, 21 to Democratic Progressive Party and 8 were independents.

By virtue of achieving more than 20 seats, the Democratic Progressive Party secured the prerogative to propose legislation in the Legislative Yuan.

1989 Legislative Yuan Election.svg
PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Kuomintang 94+11
Democratic Progressive Party 21+9
Chinese Youth Party 1–1
Independents14+8
Total130+30
Valid votes9,115,77896.25
Invalid/blank votes354,7483.75
Total votes9,470,526100.00
Registered voters/turnout12,600,90175.16
Source: Nohlen et al. [2]

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References

  1. Joseph Bosco (1994) "Faction versus Ideology: Mobilization Strategies in Taiwan's Elections" The China Quarterly, No. 137, pp28–62
  2. Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, pp539–554 ISBN   0-19-924959-8

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