2001 Taiwanese legislative election

2001 Taiwanese legislative election
1 December 2001
All 225 seats in the Legislative Yuan
113 seats needed for a majority
Turnout66.16%
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Frank Hsieh Lien Chan
Party DPP Kuomintang
Alliance Pan-Green Pan-Blue
Leader since 20 April 2000 20 March 2000
Last election 29.56%, 70 seats 46.43%, 123 seats
Seats won 87 68
Seat change 17 55
Popular vote 3,447,740 2,949,371
Percentage 33.38% 28.56%
Swing 3.82pp 17.87pp
  Third party Fourth party
 
Leader James Soong Huang Chu-wen
Party People First TSU
Alliance Pan-Blue Pan-Green
Leader since 31 March 2000 12 August 2001
Last election – –
Seats won 46 13
Seat change New New
Popular vote 1,917,836 801,560
Percentage 18.57% 7.76%
Swing – –
Elected member party by seat
  •   Democratic Progressive Party
  •   Kuomintang
  •   People First
  •   Taiwan Solidarity Union
  •   New Party
  •   Taiwan Number One
  •   Independent
President before election

Wang Jin-pyng
Kuomintang

 Elected President

Wang Jin-pyng
Kuomintang

The 2001 Taiwanese legislative election was held on 1 December 2001. All 225 seats of the Legislative Yuan were up for election: 168 elected by popular vote, 41 elected on the basis of the proportional representation based of the nationwide votes received by participating political parties, eight elected from overseas Chinese constituencies on the basis of the proportion of nationwide votes received by participating political parties, eight elected by popular vote among the Taiwanese aboriginal populations. Members served three year terms from February 1, 2002 to February 1, 2005.

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