1998 Taiwanese legislative election

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All 225 seats in the Legislative Yuan
113 seats needed for a majority

Turnout

68.09%

	Majority party	Minority party	Third party

Leader	Lee Teng-hui	Lin Yi-hsiung	Chou Yang-shan
Party	Kuomintang	DPP	New
Last election	46.06%, 85 seats	33.17%, 54 seats	12.95%, 21 seats
Seats won	123	70	11
Seat change	38	16	10
Popular vote	4,659,679	2,966,835	708,465
Percentage	46.43%	29.56%	7.06%
Swing	0.33pp	3.64pp	5.94pp

Elected member party by seat

Kuomintang
Democratic Progressive Party
New Party
Democratic Union
National Democratic Non-Party Union
Taiwan Independence
New Nation Alliance
Independent

President before election

Liu Sung-pan
Kuomintang

Elected President

Wang Jin-pyng
Kuomintang

Legislative elections were held in Taiwan on 5 December 1998. The result was a victory for the Kuomintang, which won 123 of the 225 seats. Voter turnout was 68%.

Results


Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Kuomintang	4,659,679	46.43	123	+38
	Democratic Progressive Party	2,966,834	29.56	70	+16
	New Party	708,465	7.06	11	–10
	Democratic Union of Taiwan	375,118	3.74	4	New
	New Nation Alliance	157,826	1.57	1	New
	Taiwan Independence Party	145,118	1.45	1	New
	Democratic Non-Partisan Alliance	66,033	0.66	3	+3
	Green Party Taiwan	8,089	0.08	0	New
	Taiwan Indigenous Party	1,171	0.01	0	0
	Chinese Youth Party	723	0.01	0	New
	National Democratic Party	342	0.00	0	New
	Independents	946,431	9.43	12	+8
Total		10,035,829	100.00	225	+61

Valid votes		10,035,829	98.50
Invalid/blank votes		152,473	1.50
Total votes		10,188,302	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		14,961,900	68.09
Source: Nohlen et al.

References

Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p535 ISBN 0-19-924959-8
Nohlen et al., p540

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