Hsiao Bi-khim is a Taiwanese politician and diplomat who has been the 13th and current vice president of the Republic of China since 2024,serving under President Lai Ching-te. She is Taiwan's first biracial vice president. She was the Taiwanese representative to the United States from 2020 to 2023,and formerly served as a legislator of the Legislative Yuan from 2002 to 2008 and again between 2012 and 2020.
Freddy Lim Tshiong-tso is a Taiwanese politician,musician,and independence activist. He is the lead vocalist of the Taiwanese heavy-metal band Chthonic. and the lead vocalist of the band Metal Clone X started by him and American guitarist Marty Friedman. Lim served as chair of Amnesty International Taiwan from 2010 to 2014. He was one of the founding leaders of the New Power Party (NPP) in Taiwan and represented the party in the Legislative Yuan until 2019. Lim won a second legislative term as an independent in 2020.
Su Jia-chyuan is a Taiwanese politician of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP).
The New Power Party (NPP) is a political party in Taiwan formed in early 2015. The party emerged from the Sunflower Student Movement in 2014,and advocates for universal human rights,civil and political liberties,as well as Taiwan independence/nationalism. The party is a part of the political phenomenon known as the "Third Force" (第三勢力),in which new political parties,unaligned with traditional Pan-Green or Pan-Blue Coalitions,sought to provide an alternative in Taiwanese politics. Nevertheless,the NPP's policies are very much aligned with and closely match the Pan-Green camp;thus the NPP cooperated with the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) against the Kuomintang (KMT) in the 2016 elections,going as far as not to run in traditional KMT strongholds to avoid competition with the DPP. The party works in tandem with a perceived generational shift towards Taiwan-centrism as the new socio-cultural norm.
Huang Kuo-chang is a Taiwanese politician,activist,and legal scholar. He was one of the leading figures of the 2014 Sunflower Student Movement and joined the New Power Party shortly afterwards. He served as leader of the party from 2015 to 2019,and represented New Taipei City of Xizhi District in the Legislative Yuan on behalf of the NPP between 2016 and 2020.
Hung Tzu-yung is a Taiwanese politician. Following the death of Hung Chung-chiu,her younger brother,in 2013,she joined the New Power Party upon its founding in 2015,and won election to the Legislative Yuan. Hung left the NPP in August 2019,partway through her first legislative term.
Chiang Wan-an,also known as Wayne Chiang,is a Taiwanese politician and lawyer who has served as the mayor of Taipei since December 2022. He is the youngest mayor of Taipei since the appointment of Chang Feng-hsu.
Kawlo Iyun Pacidal is a Taiwanese politician and former TV presenter. In January 2016 she was elected to serve in the Legislative Yuan as an at-large legislator on the party list of the New Power Party. Kawlo is a member of the Amis tribe of Taiwan's indigenous people and the cousin of singer Ilid Kaolo.
Johnny Chiang Chi-chen is a Taiwanese politician and former international political economy scholar who is currently the vice president of the Legislative Yuan.
Yu Tian,born Yu Tsing-yuan,is a Taiwanese politician and pop singer in Mandarin and Hokkien. A member of the Democratic Progressive Party,Yu currently serves as a member of the Legislative Yuan and previously held the same seat from 2008 to 2012.
Hsu Shu-hua is a Taiwanese politician serving as magistrate of Nantou County.
Frida Tsai is a Taiwanese activist and politician. She served in the Legislative Yuan from 2016 to 2020,contested the Nantou County magistracy later that year,and in 2023,was reelected to the Legislative Yuan. She lost election the following year to Yu Hao.
Chiu Hsien-chih is a Taiwanese lawyer and politician. He contested the 2016 and 2020 legislative elections as a member of the New Power Party,winning the latter election. Chiu served as leader of the New Power Party between March and August 2019,and was reappointed to the role in an acting capacity in August 2020.
The Taiwan People's Party (TPP) is a centre-left political party in Taiwan. It was formally established on 6 August 2019 by Ko Wen-je,who serves as its first and current chairman. The party considers itself as an alternative third party to both the Democratic Progressive Party and Kuomintang.
Claire Wang or Wang Wan-yu is a Taiwanese politician. Following the murder of her daughter in March 2016,Wang was named to the Presidential Office Organizing Committee for National Conferences on Judicial Reforms. She subsequently joined the New Power Party and won a seat on the Legislative Yuan in 2020. Currently,she serves as NPP party chairperson since March of 2023.
Kao Yu-ting is a Taiwanese engineer and politician. She joined the New Power Party in 2015,served as party leader from August to November 2020.
Local elections were held in Taiwan on 26 November and 18 December 2022 to elect county magistrates,county (city) councilors,township mayors,township councilors and chiefs of village (borough) in 6 municipalities and 16 counties (cities). Elected officials would serve a four-year term. The election was held alongside the 2022 Taiwanese constitutional referendum.
Ann Kao Hung-an is a Taiwanese business executive and politician. She earned bachelor's and master's degrees from National Taiwan Normal University and National Taiwan University,respectively,before working as a researcher for the Institute for Information Industry. The institute subsidized Kao's doctoral study at the University of Cincinnati. She then worked for Foxconn until 2020,when she was elected to the Legislative Yuan as a member of the Taiwan People's Party (TPP). Partway through her legislative term,Kao was elected Mayor of Hsinchu during the 2022 local election cycle. On 26 July 2024,Kao was removed from office and withdrew from the TPP due to corruption allegations.
By-elections for the Tenth Legislative Yuan were held in 2023,one each on 8 January and 4 March,in Taiwan to elect 2 of the 113 members of the Legislative Yuan for the remaining term until 2024. The Democratic Progressive Party flipped a seat from the Kuomintang in Nantou II,and the KMT retained its seat in Taipei III. After the DPP's victory in Nantou II,Frida Tsai would become the first DPP legislator to serve a district in Nantou County since the 2005 constitutional amendment halving the number of legislative seats from 225 to 113.
Legislative elections were held in Taiwan on 13 January 2024 to elect members of the Legislative Yuan. The elections were held alongside presidential elections.
