2024 Taiwanese presidential election

2024 Taiwanese presidential election

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Opinion polls
Registered	19,548,531
Turnout	71.86% (3.04pp)
Nominee Lai Ching-te Hou Yu-ih Ko Wen-je Party DPP KMT TPP Running mate Hsiao Bi-khim Jaw Shaw-kong Cynthia Wu Popular vote 5,586,019 4,671,021 3,690,466 Percentage 40.05% 33.49% 26.46%
Results by county-level units Results by township-level units
President before election Tsai Ing-wen DPP Elected President Lai Ching-te DPP

Presidential elections were held in Taiwan on 13 January 2024 as part of the 2024 general elections.^[1][2] Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), the incumbent president of the Republic of China, was ineligible for reelection due to term limits. As such, the DPP nominated Vice President Lai Ching-te, who had secured the party chairmanship by acclamation in March 2023. He selected Hsiao Bi-khim, the then-Representative to the United States, as his running mate. Lai was elected president with a plurality of 40.05% and is scheduled to be inaugurated on 20 May 2024.^[3][4][5]

The opposition Kuomintang (KMT) nominated the incumbent New Taipei mayor Hou Yu-ih as their candidate for president in May 2023. In November, Hou chose the former Legislative Yuan member Jaw Shaw-kong to be his running mate. The Taiwan People's Party (TPP) nominated Ko Wen-je, its leader, the former Mayor of Taipei, who in turn chose Legislative Yuan member Cynthia Wu as his running mate. Despite previously saying he would support Hou's nomination, businessman Terry Gou declared his own independent bid in September 2023, before ultimately dropping out in November. Although the KMT and TPP had initially agreed to field a joint ticket in November 2023, the two sides were unable to reach a final agreement, and each announced their own vice presidential candidate on the last day of registration.

This presidential election had a turnout rate of 71.86%, which was a 3.04pp reduction from the 2020 election. This marked the first time since the 2000 election that the winning candidate obtained less than 50% of the vote, and the first time that a party won more than two consecutive presidential elections since direct elections were introduced in 1996.