2008 Taiwanese legislative election

2008 Taiwanese legislative election

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All 113 seats in the Legislative Yuan 57 seats needed for a majority
Registered	17,179,656[a]
Turnout	58.50%[b] 0.85 pp
Majority party Minority party   Leader Wu Po-hsiung Chen Shui-bian Party Kuomintang DPP Alliance Pan-Blue Pan-Green Last election 32.83%, 79 seats 35.72%, 89 seats Seats won 81 27 Seat change 2 62 Constituency vote 5,291,512 53.50% 3,775,352 38.17% Party vote 5,010,801 51.23% 3,610,106 36.91%   Third party Fourth party   Leader Lin Pin-kuan James Soong Party NPSU People First Alliance Pan-Blue Pan-Blue Last election 3.63%, 6 seats 13.90%, 34 seats Seats won 3 1 Seat change 3 34 Constituency vote 239,317 2.42% 28,254 0.29% Party vote 68,527 0.70% Did not stand
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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