Republic of China legislative election, 2012

The elections for the Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China in 2012 were held on 14 January 2012. On the same day the presidential election was held. It was the 15th overall choice of the Legislative Yuan in the Republic of China on Taiwan.

Background

The Taiwanese company is divided. For one thing, the Chinese culture feels he belongs, on the other hand, there are many advocates of a complete independence of Taiwan while abandoning the goal of "reunification" of China. The One-China policy ( including the KMT ), represented mainly by the parties of the pan-blue coalition, the latter by the parties of the pan- green coalition ( including as the chief representative of the Democratic People's Party). However, across the political spectrum, there is agreement that you do not want to connect readily to the People's Republic of China wants to do ( for example, after the model of Hong Kong), but this only under Democrats. The independence advocates have concerns about the reaction of the People's Republic of China, which has threatened more than once that a formal declaration of independence of Taiwan would mean the casus belli and directed at Taiwan ballistic Rakteten stationed on the other side of the Taiwan Strait.

Election law and election procedure

The elections were held in 14,806 polling stations spread over the entire country. Maximum of 1,500 voters were registered per polling station. A total of 198 136 election workers participated in the organization of the elections. The country is divided into 73 electoral districts, in each of which a deputy was elected. 6 deputies were virtually elected by the indigenous people of Taiwan as minority representation, 3 of which are in the highlands and in the lowlands by three 183 398 or 171 548 eligible voters. The remaining 34 seats of the comprehensive total of 113 seats Parliament were filled according to the statewide vote share of the parties on the party lists. Each voter, therefore, had two votes, one for the constituency candidate and one for the Parteiiste, similar to the German electoral system. By law, it had to be half of the nominees on the party lists women. There was a 5 % clause, that is, only parties with a nationwide vote share above 5% could send MPs on the party lists, unless they had won constituency seats. For the 73 constituency seats be applied for a total of 267 candidates. Were entitled to vote 18,086,455 inhabitants of Taiwan. To the remaining 34 list seats in the Legislative Yuan competed 11 registered political parties. Even overseas Taiwanese were eligible to vote here.

Results

• Majority for the pan- blue coalition
• Majority for the pan-green coalition
• Majority for the Impartial Solidarity Union
• Majority of independent candidates

Kuomintang (中国 国民党)

Qinmindang (亲民 党)

Xindang (新 党)

• Kuomintang ( KMT )
• Qinmindang (PFP )
• Impartial Solidarity Union ( NPSU )
• Democratic Progressive Party (DPP )
• Taiwanese Solidarity Union ( TSU)
• Independent

Of the 113 deputies elected 75 men and 38 (33.6% ) are women. The average age of those elected is 52.5 years.

Assessment

As a result, the opposition DPP was able to increase its share of votes and significantly increase the number of parliamentary seats by almost 50 % compared to the last election in 2008. Nevertheless, the ruling Kuomintang continued to remain strong absolute majority of seats in the newly elected Legislative Yuan. In the same day conducted presidential election showed the same picture. Here is the top candidate Ma (KMT ) was able to prevail Ing -wen (DPP ) against his challenger Tsai. Both the presidency and the post of prime minister with the entire Cabinet are therefore likely in the next 4 years in the hands of the Kuomintang.