2012 Taiwanese legislative election

The 2012 Taiwanese legislative election was held on 16 January 2012 for all 113 seats in the Legislative Yuan. For the first time, legislative elections were held simultaneously with the presidential election. Elected parliamentarians formed the fifteenth Legislative Yuan session since 1946, when the current constitution came into effect. Voting took place on 14 January 2012 between 08:00 and 16:00 local Taipei time at 14,806 polling stations nationwide.

2012 Taiwanese legislative election
14 January 2012 (2012-01-14)
All 113 seats in the Legislative Yuan
57 seats needed for a majority
Registered17,980,578
Turnout74.47% 15.97 pp
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
Leader Ma Ying-jeou Tsai Ing-wen Huang Kun-huei
Party Kuomintang DPP TSU
Leader since 17 October 2009 20 May 2008 26 January 2007
Last election 81 seats, 51.23% 27 seats, 36.91% 0 seats, 3.53%
Seats won 64 40 3
Seat change 17 13 3
Constituency vote 6,339,301
48.18%
5.32pp		 5,763,186
43.80%
5.63pp		 Did not stand
Party vote 5,863,379
44.55%
6.68pp		 4,556,526
34.62%
2.29pp		 1,178,896
8.96%
3.53pp
  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Leader James Soong Lin Pin-kuan
Party People First NPSU
Leader since 31 March 2000 15 June 2007
Last election 1 seat 3 seats, 0.70%
Seats won 3 2
Seat change 2 1
Constituency vote 175,032
1.33%
1.04pp		 168,861
1.28%
1.04pp
Party vote 722,089
5.49%
—		 Did not stand
Election cartogram
President before election

Wang Jin-pyng
Kuomintang

 Elected President

Wang Jin-pyng
Kuomintang

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