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Green Party Taiwan 台灣綠黨 | |
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Chairperson | Yu Hsiao-ching Liu Chung-hsien |
Founded | 25 January 1996 |
Headquarters | 6F, No. 28, Beiping E. Rd., Zhongzheng, Taipei [1] |
Membership | 400 |
Ideology | Green politics |
Political position | Centre-left |
Regional affiliation | Asia Pacific Greens Federation |
International affiliation | Global Greens |
Colours | Green |
Legislative Yuan | 0 / 113 |
Municipal mayors | 0 / 6 |
Magistrates/mayors | 0 / 16 |
Councilors | 1 / 912 |
Township/city mayors | 0 / 204 |
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Traditional Chinese | 台灣 綠黨 | ||||||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 台湾 绿党 | ||||||||||||||||
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Green Party Taiwan [upper-roman 1] is a political party in Taiwan established on 25 January 1996. Although the party is sympathetic to Taiwanese nationalism and shares a number of centre-left positions with the Pan-Green Coalition, the party emphasizes campaigning primarily on social and environmental issues. The party is not a member of, and should not be confused with, the Pan-Green Coalition. Green Party Taiwan is a member of the Asia Pacific Greens Federation and participates in the Global Greens.
Much of the 400-strong membership are affiliated with the non-governmental organisation sector of Taiwanese society, as well as from academia and the youth community. [2]
In 1996, Green Party Taiwan’s Kao Meng-ting was elected to the National Assembly. However, he left the party in 1997.
In the 2008 legislative election, the Green Party of Taiwan formed a red-green coalition with a labour-led organization Raging Citizens Act Now! (人民火大行動聯盟), but failed to win any seats.
In the 2012 legislative election, Green Party Taiwan garnered 1.7% of the party vote. While still far short of the 5% threshold to win a seat in the legislature, this makes it the largest extraparliamentary party in Taiwan. [3] Its best showing is in Ponso no Tao where Taiwan’s nuclear waste storage facility is located. There, the party collected 35.76% of the party votes due to its strong antinuclear stance.
In the 2014 local elections, the party won two seats. Wang Hao-yu was elected to the Taoyuan City council and Jay Chou to the Hsinchu County Council. [4]
In the 2016 general election, the party ran in a coalition with the newly founded centre-left Social Democratic Party [5] and fielded candidates in both constituency races and the nationwide party ballot. [6] The coalition garnered 2.5% of the party vote without winning any seats. [7]
In the 2020 legislative election the Green Party nominated five young professionals, including famed psychologist Cheng Hui-wen and party founder Kao Cheng-yan. [8] They got 2.4% of the votes and did not win any seats. They were the second largest party that didn’t win a seat. [9]
The Green Party nominated Taiwan's first transgender legislative candidate, Abbygail ET Wu (吳伊婷), in the 2024 election cycle. The party won 117,298 votes (0.85%), not enough to seat any candidate named on the Green Party list. [10]
The Green Party averages around 3% of total votes cast in metropolitan urban areas, with support in rural areas, such as Orchid Island, as high as 35.8%. [2]
Election | Mayors & Magistrates | Councils | Third-level Municipal heads | Third-level Municipal councils | Fourth-level Village heads | Election Leader |
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2018 unified | 0 / 22 | 3 / 912 | 0 / 204 | 1 / 2,148 | 0 / 7,744 | Wang Hao-yu |
2022 unified | 0 / 22 | 1 / 910 | 0 / 204 | 0 / 2,139 | 0 / 7,748 | Yu Hsiao-ching |
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