2008 Taiwanese legislative election

Legislative elections were held in Taiwan on 12 January 2008 to elect the members of the Legislative Yuan. It was the first Legislative Yuan election after the constitutional amendments of 2005, which extended term length from three to four years, reduced seat count from 225 to 113, and introduced the current electoral system.

2008 Taiwanese legislative election
12 January 2008 (2008-01-12)
All 113 seats in the Legislative Yuan
57 seats needed for a majority
Registered17,179,656
Turnout58.50% 0.85 pp
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Wu Po-hsiung Chen Shui-bian
Party Kuomintang DPP
Alliance Pan-Blue Pan-Green
Last election 32.83%, 79 seats 35.72%, 89 seats
Seats won 81 27
Seat change 2 62
Constituency vote 5,291,512
53.50%		 3,775,352
38.17%
Party vote 5,010,801
51.23%		 3,610,106
36.91%
  Third party Fourth party
 
Leader Lin Pin-kuan James Soong
Party NPSU People First
Alliance Pan-Blue Pan-Blue
Last election 3.63%, 6 seats 13.90%, 34 seats
Seats won 3 1
Seat change 3 34
Constituency vote 239,317
2.42%		 28,254
0.29%
Party vote 68,527
0.70%		 Did not stand
Vote share by constituencies
Election cartogram

The results gave the Kuomintang (KMT) and the Pan-Blue Coalition a supermajority (86 of the 113 seats) in the legislature, handing a heavy defeat to then-President Chen Shui-bian's Democratic Progressive Party, which won the remaining 27 seats only. The junior partner in the Pan-Green Coalition, the Taiwan Solidarity Union, won no seats.

Two transitional justice referendums, both of which failed to pass due to low turnout, were held at the same time.

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