Legislative Yuan - Composition

Composition

Starting with the 2008 legislative elections, drastic changes were made to the Legislative Yuan in accordance with a constitutional amendment passed in 2005. The Legislative Yuan has 113 members, down from 225. Legislators come to office through the following ways:

  • 73 are elected under the first-past-the-post system in single-member constituencies.
  • 34 are elected under the supplementary member system on a second ballot, based on nationwide votes, and calculated using the largest remainder method.
  • Six seats are elected by aboriginal voters through single non-transferable vote in two three-member constituencies.

Members serve four-year terms.


e • d Summary of the 14 January 2012 Legislative Yuan election results
Parties (alliances) constituency + Aboriginal Party block Votes % Total
seats
Seats ± Seats ± ±
Kuomintang 48 13 16 4 5,863,379 44.55 81 64 17
People First Party 1 0 2 2 722,089 5.49 1 3 2
Non-Partisan Solidarity Union 2 1 0 0 148,105 3 2 1
New Party 0 0 0 0 195,960 1.49 0 0 0
Pan-Blue coalition 51 14 18 2 7,503,517 51.48 85 69 16
Democratic Progressive Party 27 14 13 1 4,556,526 34.62 27 40 13
Taiwan Solidarity Union 0 0 3 3 1,178,896 8.96 0 3 3
Pan-Green coalition 27 14 16 2 5,735,422 43.56 27 43 16
Independents 1 0 0 0 2,528 1 1 0
Total 79 0 34 0 13,241,467 100% 113 113 0

The previous legislature had 225 members. Legislators were elected in the following ways:

  • 168 were elected by popular vote through single non-transferable vote in multi-member consistencies
  • 41 were elected on the basis of the proportion of nationwide votes received by participating political parties.
  • Eight were allocated for overseas Chinese and were selected by the parties on the basis of the proportion of votes received nationwide.
  • Eight seats were reserved for the aboriginal populations.

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