2012 Taiwanese legislative election

2012 Taiwanese legislative election

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All 113 seats in the Legislative Yuan 57 seats needed for a majority
Registered	17,980,578[a]
Turnout	74.47%[b] 15.97 pp
Majority party Minority party   Leader Ma Ying-jeou Tsai Ing-wen Party Kuomintang DPP Leader since 17 October 2009 20 May 2008 Last election 81 seats 27 seats Seats won 64 40 Seat change 17 13 Constituency vote 6,339,301 48.18% 5.32pp 5,763,186 43.80% 5.63pp Party vote 5,863,379 44.55% 6.68pp 4,556,526 34.62% 2.29pp   Third party Fourth party   Leader Huang Kun-huei James Soong Party TSU People First Leader since 26 January 2007 31 March 2000 Last election 0 seats 1 seat Seats won 3 3 Seat change 3 2 Constituency vote Did not stand 175,032 1.33% 1.04pp Party vote 1,178,896 8.96% 3.53pp 722,089 5.49% —[c]
Vote share by constituencies Seat changes
Election cartogram
President before election Wang Jin-pyng Kuomintang Elected President Wang Jin-pyng Kuomintang

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.^[2]

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