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All 113 seats in the Legislative Yuan 57 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Registered | 17,179,656[a] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Turnout | 58.50%[b] ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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![]() Vote share by constituencies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
![]() Election cartogram |
Legislative elections were held in Taiwan on 12 January 2008 to elect the members of the Legislative Yuan. It was the first Legislative Yuan election after the constitutional amendments of 2005, which extended term length from three to four years, reduced seat count from 225 to 113, and introduced the current electoral system.
The results gave the Kuomintang (KMT) and the Pan-Blue Coalition a supermajority (86 of the 113 seats) in the legislature, handing a heavy defeat to then-President Chen Shui-bian's Democratic Progressive Party, which won the remaining 27 seats only. The junior partner in the Pan-Green Coalition, the Taiwan Solidarity Union, won no seats.
Two transitional justice referendums, both of which failed to pass due to low turnout, were held at the same time.
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