2020 Taiwanese legislative election

The 2020 Taiwanese legislative election was held on 11 January 2020 for all 113 seats to the Legislative Yuan concurrently with the 15th presidential election in Taiwan.[2] The term of the Legislative Yuan began on 1 February 2020.

2020 Taiwanese legislative election

11 January 2020 (2020-01-11)[1]

All 113 seats in the Legislative Yuan
57 seats needed for a majority
Registered19,221,861[lower-alpha 1]
Turnout74.93%[lower-alpha 2] 7.59 pp
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
Leader Cho Jung-tai Wu Den-yih Ko Wen-je
Party DPP Kuomintang TPP
Leader since 9 January 2019 20 August 2017 6 August 2019
Last election 68 seats, 44.06%[lower-alpha 3] 35 seats, 26.91%[lower-alpha 3] Did not stand[lower-alpha 4]
Seats won 61 38 5
Seat change 7 3 5
Popular vote 4,811,241[lower-alpha 3] 4,723,504[lower-alpha 3] 1,588,806[lower-alpha 3]
Percentage 33.98% 33.36% 11.22%
Swing 10.08 pp 6.44 pp New party
Constituency seats won[lower-alpha 5] 48 25 0

  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Leader Hsu Yung-ming Chen Yi-chi
Party New Power Statebuilding
Leader since 21 August 2019 15 May 2016
Last election 5 seats, 6.11%[lower-alpha 3] Did not stand[lower-alpha 4]
Seats won 3 1
Seat change 2 1
Popular vote 1,098,100[lower-alpha 3] 447,286[lower-alpha 3]
Percentage 7.75% 3.16%
Swing 1.65 pp New party
Constituency seats won[lower-alpha 6] 0 1

Elected member party by constituency

Party-list leading party and vote count by township/city and district

President before election

Su Jia-chyuan
DPP

Elected President

Yu Shyi-kun
DPP

The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) lost seven seats but retained a majority of 61 seats in the Legislative Yuan. The Kuomintang gained three seats, winning 38. The New Power Party won three seats, down from five in the last election. The Taiwan People's Party and Taiwan Statebuilding Party entered the Legislative Yuan with five seats and one seat, respectively, with five independent candidates winning their seats and the People First Party losing all of their seats.

Electoral system

Members were elected by parallel voting. 73 members were elected by first-past-the-post, 6 reserved for indigenous candidates by single non-transferable vote, and 34 by party-list proportional representation.

Constituency changes

In 2019, after negotiations between the Presidents of the Executive and Legislative Yuans, changes to the electoral divisions include:[3]

  • Kaoshiung and Pingtung each lost a seat.
  • Tainan and Hsinchu County each gained a seat.
  • The boundary between Taichung II and Taichung VII was adjusted.

Contesting parties and candidates

Party General seats Aboriginal seats Party list Total
Democratic Progressive Party67233102
Kuomintang71531107
Taiwan People's Party17 2845
New Power Party5 1116
Taiwan Statebuilding Party10 616
People First Party10 2232
Green Party101617
New Party 1010
Taiwan Action Party Alliance11 516
Stabilizing Force Party921021
Taiwan Solidarity Union 77
Congress Party Alliance13 619
Chinese Unification Promotion Party10 717
Interfaith Union12 820
Formosa Alliance102618
Labor Party10 212
United Action Alliance102820
Taiwan Renewal Party111618
Sovereign State for Formosa & Pescadores Party91414
Taiwan Labor Party3 3
Independent865 91
Others260026
Total 410 21 216 647

Opinion polling

Results

Summary

A summarised results of the parties that won seats at the election is as follows:

Party Leader Overall District and indigenous seats Party-list seats
Seats ± % Seats Votes % Seats Votes %
Democratic Progressive Party Cho Jung-tai 61 7 53.98%
61 / 113
48 6,383,783 45.11%
13 4,811,241 33.98%
Kuomintang Wu Den-yih 38 3 33.63%
38 / 113
25 5,761,995 40.72%
13 4,723,504 33.36%
Taiwan People's Party Ko Wen-je 5 New 4.42%
5 / 113
0 264,478 1.87%
5 1,588,806 11.22%
New Power Party Hsu Yung-ming 3 2 2.65%
3 / 113
0 141,952 1.00%
3 1,098,100 7.75%
Taiwan Statebuilding Party Chen Yi-chi 1 New 0.88%
1 / 113
1 141,503 1.00%
0 447,286 3.16%

Results by constituency

Constituency Result Elected member Constituency Result Elected member
New Taipei City I Kuomintang gain from DPPHung Mong-kai Taipei City I DPP hold Rosalia Wu
II DPP hold Lin Shu-fen II DPP hold Ho Chih-wei
III DPP hold Yu Tian III Kuomintang hold Chiang Wan-an
IV DPP hold Wu Ping-jui IV DPP gain from Kuomintang Kao Chia-yu
V DPP hold Su Chiao-hui V Independent gain from New Power[lower-alpha 7] Freddy Lim[lower-alpha 7]
VI DPP hold Chang Hung-lu VI Kuomintang hold Lin Yi-hua
VII DPP hold Lo Chih-cheng VII Kuomintang hold Fai Hrong-tai
VIII DPP hold Chiang Yung-chang VIII Kuomintang hold Lai Shyh-bao
IX Kuomintang holdLin Te-fu
X DPP hold Wu Chi-ming
XI Kuomintang holdLo Ming-tsai
XII DPP gain from New Power Lai Pin-yu
Taoyuan City I DPP hold Cheng Yun-peng Taichung City I DPP hold Tsai Chi-chang
II DPP hold Huang Shier-chieh II Statebuilding gain from Kuomintang Chen Po-wei
III Kuomintang holdLu Ming-che III Kuomintang gain from New Power Yang Chiung-ying
IV Kuomintang gain from DPPWan Mei-ling IV DPP hold Chang Liao Wan-chien
V Kuomintang holdLu Yu-ling V DPP gain from Kuomintang Zhuang Ching-cheng
VI Independent holdChao Cheng-yu VI DPP hold Huang Kuo-shu
VII DPP hold Ho Hsin-chun
VIII Kuomintang hold Johnny Chiang
Tainan City I DPP holdLai Huei-yuen Kaohsiung City[lower-alpha 8] I DPP hold Chiu Yi-ying
II DPP hold Kuo Kuo-wen II DPP hold Chiu Chih-wei
III DPP hold Chen Ting-fei III DPP hold Liu Shyh-fang
IV DPP gain new seatLin I-chin IV DPP hold Lin Tai-hua
V DPP hold Lin Jun-xian V DPP hold Lee Kun-tse
VI DPP hold Wang Ting-yu VI DPP hold Chao Tien-lin
VII DPP hold Hsu Chih-chieh
VIII DPP hold Lai Jui-lung
Yilan County DPP hold Chen Ou-po Hsinchu County I Kuomintang hold Lin Wei-chou
II Kuomintang gain new seat Lin Si-ming
Miaoli County I Kuomintang holdChen Chao-ming Changhua County I DPP gain from Kuomintang Chen Hsiu-bao
II Kuomintang holdHsu Chih-jung II DPP hold Huang Hsiu-fang
III Kuomintang gain from DPP Hsieh Yi-fong
IV DPP hold Chen Su-yueh
Nantou County I Kuomintang holdMa Wen-chun Yunlin County I DPP hold Su Chin-feng
II Kuomintang holdHsu Shu-hua II DPP hold Liu Chien-kuo
Chiayi County I DPP hold Tsai Yi-yu Pingtung County[lower-alpha 8] I DPP hold Chung Chia-pin
II DPP hold Chen Ming-wen II Independent gain from DPP[lower-alpha 9] Su Chen-ching[lower-alpha 9]
Taitung County DPP hold Liu Chao-how Hualien County Independent gain from DPPFu Kun-chi
Penghu County DPP hold Yang Yao Keelung City DPP hold Cai Shi-ying
Hsinchu City Kuomintang gain from DPPCheng Cheng-chien Chiayi City DPP hold Wang Mei-hui
Kinmen County Kuomintang holdChen Yu-chen Lienchiang County Kuomintang hold Cheng Hsueh-sheng
Lowland Aborigine Kuomintang holdSra Kacaw Highland Aborigine Independent hold[lower-alpha 10] Kao Chin Su-mei[lower-alpha 10]
Kuomintang holdLiao Kuo-tung DPP gain from Kuomintang Saidai Tarovecahe
DPP hold Chen Ying Kuomintang hold Kung Wen-chi

Results by party-list

2020 Taiwanese legislative party list results
S/N Party Votes Raw % Swing (pp) Re-allocated
%
Seats Elected members
14Democratic Progressive Party 4,811,24133.98 10.08 39.3713 5Wu Yu-chin, Hung Sun-han, Fan Yun, Low Meei-ling, Chiu Tai-yuan, Chou Chun-mi, Yu Shyi-kun, Ker Chien-ming, Kuan Bi-ling, Chuang Jui-hsiung, Shen Fa-hui, Lin Chu-yin, Tang Hui-jen
9Kuomintang 4,723,50433.36 6.45 38.6513 2Tseng Ming-chung, Yeh Yu-lan, Stacey Lee, Wu Sz-huai, Cheng Li-wen, Lin Wen-jui, Liao Wan-ju, Wong Chung-chun, Wu I-ding, Chen I-hsin, Chang Yu-mei, Lee De-wei, Wen Yu-hsia
15Taiwan People's Party 1,588,80611.22 New13.005 5Lai Hsiang-lin, Jang Chyi-lu, Kao Hung-an, Chiu Chen-yuan, Tsai Pi-ru
6New Power Party 1,098,1007.75 1.64 8.983 1Chen Jiau-hua, Chiu Hsien-chih, Claire Wang
3People First Party 518,9213.66 2.86 0 3
5Taiwan Statebuilding Party 447,2863.16 New0
12Green Party 341,4652.41 0.12 0
7New Party 147,3731.04 3.14 0
10Taiwan Action Party Alliance 143,6171.01 New0
4Stabilizing Force Party 94,5630.67 New0
19Taiwan Solidarity Union 50,4350.36 New0
18Congress Party Alliance 40,3310.28 New0
2Chinese Unification Promotion Party 32,9660.23 New0
13Interfaith Union 31,1170.22 New0
8Formosa Alliance 29,3240.21 New0
11Labour Party 19,9410.14 New0
1United Action Alliance 17,5150.12 New0
16Taiwan Renewal Party 11,9520.08 New0
17Sovereign State for Formosa & Pescadores Party 11,6810.08 New0
Blank and invalid votes 296,155
Total 14,456,293100.00 100.00
Registered voters/turnout 19,312,10574.86

Result of aboriginal constituencies

Result in aboriginal constituencies[4][5][6][7]
Parties Lowlands Highlands Total +/-
Votes % Seats Votes % Seats
Kuomintang 78,153 64.12 2 50,093 34.61 1 3 -1
Democratic Progressive Party 25,843 21.20 1 25,772 17.81 1 2 +1
Green Party 1,163 0.80 0 0 0
Stabilizing Force Party 1,273 1.04 0 1,241 0.86 0 0 0
Formosa Alliance 2,958 2.42 0 577 0.40 0 0 0
United Action Alliance 1,029 0.84 0 0 0
Taiwan Renewal Party 5,020 4.12 0 0 0
Sovereign State for Formosa & Pescadores Party 366 0.25 0 0 0
Independents 7,604 6.24 0 65,512 45.27 1 1 +1
Valid votes 121,880 97.89 144,724 98.07
Blank and invalid 2,624 2.11 2,848 1.93
Total 124,504 100 3 147,572 100 3 6 0
Abstentions 75,329 37.70 67,543 31.40
Registered voters / participation 199,833 62.30 215,115 68.60

Full results

Summary of the 11 January 2020 Legislative Yuan election results
Parties Constituency Reserved
seats
PR Block Total seats
Votes % ±pp Seats Votes % ±pp Seats Seats ± % ±pp
Democratic Progressive Party 6,332,16845.601.014624,811,24133.9810.081361 753.986.20
Kuomintang 5,633,74940.571.682234,723,50433.366.451338 333.632.66
Taiwan People's Party 264,4781.90New001,588,80611.22New55 54.42New
New Power Party 141,9521.021.87001,098,1007.751.6433 22.651.77
People First Party 60,6140.440.8800518,9213.662.8600 30.002.65
Taiwan Statebuilding Party 141,5031.02New10447,2863.16New01 10.88New
Green Party 38,2240.28New00341,4652.410.12000.000.00
New Party 00147,3731.043.14000.000.00
Taiwan Action Party Alliance 20,1340.15New00143,6171.01New000.00New
Stabilizing Force Party 26,1820.19New0094,5630.67New000.00New
Taiwan Solidarity Union 0050,4350.36New000.00New
Congress Party Alliance 81,5080.59New0040,3310.28New000.00New
Chinese Unification Promotion Party 8,7900.06New0032,9660.23New000.00New
Interfaith Union 7,7020.06New0031,1170.22New000.00New
Formosa Alliance 9,2070.07New0029,3240.21New000.00New
Labor Party 13,6940.10New0019,9410.14New000.00New
United Action Alliance 14,8170.11New0017,5150.12New000.00New
Taiwan Renewal Party 36,8710.27New0011,9520.08New000.00New
Sovereign State for Formosa & Pescadores Party 5,6970.04New0011,6810.08New000.00New
Others parties 34,7910.2500---00
Independent 1,013,3477.3041---05 14.423.54
Blank and invalid votes 244,571296,155
Total 14,129,999100.0073614,456,293100.0034113
Registered voters/turnout 18,806,91375.1319,312,10574.86
Central Election Commission

See also

Notes

  1. District and aboriginal electorate; party-list electorate size was 19,312,105
  2. District and aboriginal electorate; party-list voter turnout was 74.86%
  3. Proportional seats
  4. Not yet established
  5. District and aboriginal
  6. District and aboriginal
  7. former New Power Party member, re-elected in 2020
  8. Number of seats reduced by one; all seats previously held by DPP
  9. Elected member Su Chen-ching is a member of DPP but ran as an independent
  10. Kao Chin Su-mei ran as an Independent in the election, but she is affiliated to the NPSU

References

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