2012 Taiwanese legislative election

2012 Taiwanese legislative election

14 January 2012 (2012-01-14)

All 113 seats in the Legislative Yuan
57 seats needed for a majority
Registered17,980,578
Turnout74.47% 15.97 pp
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Ma Ying-jeou Tsai Ing-wen
Party Kuomintang DPP
Leader since 17 October 2009 20 May 2008
Last election 81 seats 27 seats
Seats won 64 40
Seat change 17 13
Constituency vote 6,339,301
48.18%

5.32pp
5,763,186
43.80%
5.63pp
Party vote 5,863,379
44.55%

6.68pp
4,556,526
34.62%
2.29pp

  Third party Fourth party
 
Leader Huang Kun-huei James Soong
Party TSU People First
Leader since 26 January 2007 31 March 2000
Last election 0 seats 1 seat
Seats won 3 3
Seat change 3 2
Constituency vote Did not stand 175,032
1.33%
1.04pp
Party vote 1,178,896
8.96%
3.53pp
722,089
5.49%


Election cartogram

President before election

Wang Jin-pyng
Kuomintang

Elected President

Wang Jin-pyng
Kuomintang

Legislative elections were held in Taiwan on 16 January 2012 for all 113 seats in the Legislative Yuan. For the first time, the 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.