2016 Taiwanese legislative election

2016 Taiwanese legislative election

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All 113 seats in the Legislative Yuan 57 seats needed for a majority
Registered	18,692,217[a]
Turnout	66.34%[b] 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%[c] 64 seats, 44.55%[c] – 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%[c] 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% —[d]
Vote share by constituencies Seat changes
Election cartogram
President before election Wang Jin-pyng Kuomintang Elected President Su Jia-chyuan DPP

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.

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.^[2]

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