2012 Legislative Election Results

2012 Legislative Election Results

  Source: All Taipei Newspapers

January 16, 2012

	Regional  (79 seats)	Percentage	Party list (34 seats)	Percentage	Total seats
KMT	48	48.18%	16	44.55%	64
DPP	27	43.80%	13	34.62%	40
PFP	1	1.33%	2	8.96%	3
TSU	0	1.28%	3	5.49%	3
Others	3	6.61%	0	4.89%	3

The KMT maintained its legislative majority in the 2012 legislative elections by winning 64 seats out of the total 113, including 48 district and 16 party-list seats. The DPP won a total of 43 seats, including 27 district and 13 party-list seats.

Surprisingly, Chiu Yi (邱毅), a high-profile KMT legislator, lost to his DPP opponent Chao Tien-Lin (趙天麟) in Lingya District (Kaohsiung 7).

Lin Yi-shih(林益世), KMT party whip and four-term legislator representing Gangshan District (Kaohsiung 2), was defeated by DPP's Chiu Chih-wei (邱志偉), a former Civil Affairs Bureau Director in the Kaohsiung City Government.   

In addition, Chen Chi-chung (陳致中), son of former President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁), ran for election in Xiaogang, Qianzhen District (Kaohsiung 9), but he and the DPP's Kuo Wen-cheng (郭玟成) were both ultimately defeated by the KMT's Lin Kuo-chen (林國正), with 38.4%  of the vote.   

[Editor's Note: Our legislative elections have adopted a "single-seat district, two-ballot" electoral system. Voters cast two ballots, one for the candidate they support (regional), and the other for the political party they support (at large).]

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