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Upcoming Elections

  • Presidential
    January 2016
  • Legislative
    January 2016

Taiwan

Description of government structure:

  • Chief of State: President MA Ying-jeou
  • Head of Government: Premier CHEN Chong
  • Assembly: Taiwan has a unicameral Legislative Yuan with 113 seats.

Description of electoral system:

  • The President is elected by popular vote to serve a 4-year term.
  • The Premier is appointed by the President.
  • In the Legislative Yuan, 73 members are elected by plurality vote in single-member constituencies to serve 4-year terms, 34 members are elected through a closed-list proportional representation system to serve 4-year terms and 6 members are elected by single non-transferable vote to serve 4-year terms.***

*** Each voter has two votes: one in a single-member constituency or in one of two three-member constituencies representing indigenous groups (highland or lowland); one for a party list. Proportional representation seats are allocated nationwide with a 5 percent threshold. A gender quota of one half applies to party lists.

Population:

  • Population: 22,974,347 (July 2010 )

Future elections

  • Presidential - January 2016
  • Legislative - January 2016

Past elections

Last Updated on 01/10/2013

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