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The 10th Republic of China Legislative Yuan election is scheduled on 11 January 2020 for all 113 seats to the Legislative Yuan, together with presidential election in Taiwan. [1] The term of the Legislative Yuan will begin on 1 February 2020.
In the last election in 2016, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won a comfortable majority over the Kuomintang (KMT) for the first time with 68 seats, while the KMT's representation sharply dropped to only 35 seats.
The 113 members of the Legislative Yuan are elected by a supplementary member system, with 73 from geographical constituencies via first-past-the-post, six from two nationwide aboriginal constituencies, each with three members, via single non-transferable vote, and 34 from closed-list proportional representation (PR) via a national party vote. Seats are allocated using the Hare quota.
Under the Article 35 and 37 of the Civil Servants Election And Recall Act, the electoral constituencies are to be revised every ten years based on population of quota by the end of two years and two months before the tenure of current legislators ends, which is obtained by household investigation. The Central Election Commission reviews the boundaries then submit the proposal of altering electoral districts to the Legislative Yuan 20 months before the election for final consent and announcement. In 2019, after negotiations between the Presidents of the Executive and Legislative Yuans, changes to the electoral divisions include: [2]
Party | General seats | Aboriginal seats | Party list | Total | |
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Kuomintang | 71 | 5 | 31 | 107 | |
Democratic Progressive Party | 67 | 2 | 33 | 102 | |
Taiwan People's Party | 17 | 0 | 28 | 45 | |
People First Party | 10 | - | 22 | 32 | |
StabilityOfPower Party | 9 | 2 | 10 | 21 | |
Religious Alliance | 12 | - | 8 | 20 | |
Congress Party Alliance | 13 | - | 6 | 19 | |
Taiwan Renewal Party | 11 | 1 | 6 | 18 | |
Chinese Unification Promotion Party | 11 | - | 7 | 18 | |
Formosa Alliance | 10 | 2 | 6 | 18 | |
Green Party | 10 | 1 | 6 | 17 | |
Taiwan Action Party Alliance | 11 | - | 6 | 17 | |
New Power Party | 5 | - | 11 | 16 | |
Taiwan Statebuilding Party | 10 | - | 6 | 16 | |
Labour Party | 10 | - | 2 | 12 | |
New Party | - | - | 10 | 10 | |
Taiwan Solidarity Union | - | - | 7 | 7 | |
Others | 48 | 3 | 12 | 63 | |
Independent | 87 | 5 | - | 92 | |
Total | 412 | 21 | 217 | 650 | |
The party list uses the Hare quota formula under the largest remainder method to allocate the 34 seats. In order to qualify for seats based on the party-list vote share, a party must exceed a threshold of 5% of the second votes nationwide. For each party, at least half of the legislators elected under this system must be female.
2020 Taiwan legislative party list results | ||||||||
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S/N | Party | Ranking | Votes | 1st Round % | 2nd Round % | Elected members | Seats (±) | |
1 | United Action Alliance | - | - | |||||
2 | Chinese Unification Promotion Party | - | - | |||||
3 | People First Party | - | - | |||||
4 | StabilityOfPower Party | - | - | |||||
5 | Taiwan Statebuilding Party | - | - | |||||
6 | New Power Party | - | - | |||||
7 | New Party | - | - | |||||
8 | Formosa Alliance | - | - | |||||
9 | Kuomintang | - | - | |||||
10 | Taiwan Action Party Alliance | - | - | |||||
11 | Labour Party | - | - | |||||
12 | Green Party | - | - | |||||
13 | Religious Alliance | - | - | |||||
14 | Democratic Progressive Party | - | - | |||||
15 | Taiwan People's Party | - | - | |||||
16 | Taiwan Renewal Party | - | - | |||||
17 | Sovereign State for Formosa & Pescadores Party | - | - | |||||
18 | Congress Party Alliance | - | - | |||||
19 | Taiwan Solidarity Union | - | - | |||||
Blank and invalid votes | - | - | ||||||
Total | - | - | ||||||
Registered voters/turnout | - | - |
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