2016 Taiwanese legislative election

Legislative elections were held in Taiwan on 16 January 2016 to elect all 113 members in the Legislative Yuan, alongside presidential elections. The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) led by Tsai Ing-wen, who also won the presidential election on the same day, secured a majority for the first time in history by winning 68 seats. The ruling Kuomintang (KMT) lost both the presidency and its legislative majority and returned to the opposition.

2016 Taiwanese legislative election
16 January 2016 (2016-01-16)
All 113 seats in the Legislative Yuan
57 seats needed for a majority
Registered18,692,217
Turnout66.34% 8.13 pp
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
Leader Tsai Ing-wen Eric Chu Huang Kuo-chang
Party DPP Kuomintang NPP
Last election 40 seats, 34.62% 64 seats, 44.55% –
Seats won 68 35 5
Seat change 28 29 New
Constituency vote 5,416,683
44.59%
0.79pp		 4,724,394
38.89%
9.29pp		 351,244
2.89%
New
Party vote 5,370,953
44.06%
9.44pp		 3,280,949
26.91%
17.64pp		 744,315
6.11%
New
  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Leader James Soong Lin Pin-kuan
Party People First NPSU
Last election 3 seats, 5.49% 2 seats
Seats won 3 1
Seat change 1
Constituency vote 156,212
1.29%
0.74pp		 27,690
0.23%
1.05pp
Party vote 794,383
6.52%
1.03pp		 77,672
0.64%
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Election cartogram
President before election

Wang Jin-pyng
Kuomintang

 Elected President

Su Jia-chyuan
DPP

The DPP managed to unseat the KMT in its traditional blue strongholds across Taiwan, turning districts in Taipei, Taichung and Hualien green, while KMT Vice Chairman Hau Lung-bin conceded defeat to relatively unknown city councilor Tsai Shih-ying from the DPP, becoming one of the most notable upsets in the election. The year-old New Power Party (NPP), founded by young activists in the wake of the 2014 Sunflower Movement, entered the Legislative Yuan, winning five seats from KMT veterans.

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