2012 Taiwanese legislative election

The 2012 Taiwanese legislative election was held on 16 January 2012 for all 113 seats in the Legislative Yuan. For the first time, legislative elections were held simultaneously with the presidential election. Elected parliamentarians formed the fifteenth Legislative Yuan session since 1946, when the current constitution came into effect. Voting took place on 14 January 2012 between 08:00 and 16:00 local Taipei time at 14,806 polling stations nationwide.[2]

2012 Taiwanese legislative election
14 January 2012 (2012-01-14)[1]
All 113 seats in the Legislative Yuan
57 seats needed for a majority
Registered17,980,578[lower-alpha 1]
Turnout74.47%[lower-alpha 2] Increase 15.97 pp
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
Leader Ma Ying-jeou Tsai Ing-wen Huang Kun-huei
Party Kuomintang DPP TSU
Leader since 17 October 2009 20 May 2008 26 January 2007
Last election 81 seats, 51.23%[lower-alpha 3] 27 seats, 36.91%[lower-alpha 3] 0 seats, 3.53%[lower-alpha 3]
Seats won 64 40 3
Seat change Decrease 17 Increase 13 Increase 3
Constituency vote 6,339,301
48.18%
Increase 5.32pp		 5,763,186
43.80%
Increase 5.63pp		 Did not stand
Party vote 5,863,379
44.55%
Decrease 6.68pp		 4,556,526
34.62%
Decrease 2.29pp		 1,178,896
8.96%
Increase 3.53pp
  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Leader James Soong Lin Pin-kuan
Party People First NPSU
Leader since 31 March 2000 15 June 2007
Last election 1 seat 3 seats, 0.70%[lower-alpha 3]
Seats won 3 2
Seat change Increase 2 Decrease 1
Constituency vote 175,032
1.33%
Increase 1.04pp		 168,861
1.28%
Increase 1.04pp
Party vote 722,089
5.49%
—[lower-alpha 4]		 Did not stand
Election cartogram
President before election

Wang Jin-pyng
Kuomintang

 Elected President

Wang Jin-pyng
Kuomintang

Electoral system
Main article: Legislative Yuan elections in Taiwan

Members were elected by parallel voting.

Subsidies

According to the "Civil Servants Election And Recall Act", subsidies are payable to the political parties who sponsor candidates for Legislative Yuan elections. Article 43 has the following specifications:[3]

Every year the state shall apportion subsidies for campaign to the political parties, and the standard of apportionment shall be determined based on the latest election of members of the Legislative Yuan. If a ratio of vote attained by the political party achieves not less than 5% in the national integrated election and the overseas election of central civil servants, the subsidy for campaign funds shall be granted to the political party by a rate of NT$50 per vote every year. The Central Election Commission shall work out the amount of the subsidy every fiscal year, and notify the party to prepare the receipt and receive the subsidy from the Central Election Commission within 1 month, till the tenure of the current session of the members of the Legislative Yuan expires.

Results
PartyParty-listConstituency/IndigenousTotal
seats		+/–
Votes%SeatsVotes%Seats
Kuomintang5,863,37944.55166,339,30148.184864–17
Democratic Progressive Party4,556,52634.62135,763,18643.802740+13
Taiwan Solidarity Union1,178,8968.9633+3
People First Party722,0895.492175,0321.3313+2
Green Party Taiwan229,5661.74079,7290.61000
New Party195,9601.49010,6780.08000
National Health Service Alliance163,3441.24019,0880.1500New
Taiwan National Congress118,6320.90019,9870.1500New
People United Party84,8180.64013,0440.1000New
Taiwanism Party29,8890.23016,2800.1200New
Taiwan Basic Laws Party19,2740.1509,6660.0700New
Non-Partisan Solidarity Union168,8611.2822–1
People are the Boss Alliance5,8520.0400New
Taiwan Businessmen Party3,1560.0200New
Righteous Party1,8520.0100New
Independents532,2704.05110
Total13,162,373100.003413,157,982100.00791130
Valid votes13,162,37397.8913,157,98298.26
Invalid/blank votes283,6192.11232,3441.74
Total votes13,445,992100.0013,390,326100.00
Registered voters/turnout18,090,29574.3317,980,57874.47
Source: Election Study Center, Election Study Center, CSES

Subsequent by-elections
Date Constituency Outgoing member Incoming member
26 January 2013 Taichung 2 Yen Ching-piao Yen Kuan-heng
7 February 2015 Changhua 4 Wei Ming-ku Chen Su-yueh (陳素月)
7 February 2015 Miaoli 2 Hsu Yao-chang Hsu Chih-jung (徐志榮)
7 February 2015 Nantou 2 Lin Ming-chen Hsu Shu-hua
7 February 2015 Pingtung 3 Pan Men-an Chuang Jui-hsiung (莊瑞雄)
7 February 2015 Taichung 6 Lin Chia-lung Huang Kuo-shu

See also

Notes
  1. District and indigenous electorate; party-list electorate size was 18,090,295
  2. District and indigenous electorate; party-list voter turnout was 74.33%
  3. Party-list election
  4. Did not stand in the party-list election in 2008

References
  1. "中選會資料庫網站". cec.gov.tw (in Chinese). Retrieved 29 January 2020.
  2. CEC finalizes two-in-one poll preparations Archived 29 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine Taiwan Today. 13 January 2012
  3. Civil Servants Election And Recall Act, Laws and Regulations Database of the Republic of China. Act last amended 25 May 2011.
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