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.
| Parties (alliances) | constituency + Aboriginal | Party block | Votes | % | Total seats |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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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