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The 14th Presidential and Vice Presidential election[1] was held on 16 January 2016 for the President and Vice President of the Republic of China, commonly known as Taiwan. Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidate Tsai Ing-wen with her independent running mate Chen Chien-jen won over Eric Chu of the Kuomintang (KMT) and James Soong of the People First Party (PFP). Tsai became the first female president in Taiwan, as well as the Chinese-speaking world.[2]
A second time presidential candidate, Tsai secured the DPP's nomination uncontested as early as February 2015, while KMT candidate Hung Hsiu-chu who won the party's nomination in July 2015, was trailing behind Tsai by double-digits.[3] Alarmed by Hung's perceived pro-Beijing stance, the KMT held an extraordinary party congress to nullify Hung's candidacy in a controversial move, and replaced her by the party chairman Eric Chu, less than a hundred days before the general election.[4] However, Chu did not fare much better than Hung in the polls, and it was almost certain that Tsai was going to win weeks before the election. Veteran politician James Soong also announced his presidential campaign for the fourth time which made it a three-way contest.
Some 12 million voters, 66% of the total registered voters, cast their votes, the lowest turnout since the office was first directly elected in 1996.[5] Tsai won 6.89 million votes, leading Chu who received 3.81 million votes by 3.08 million votes, becoming the second highest winning margin behind first direct presidential election in 1996.[6] She also won with 56.1%, the second-largest vote share claimed by a presidential candidate since Ma Ying-jeou in the 2008 election. It was the second time the DPP won the presidency since Chen Shui-bian won in 2000. The DPP also won the Legislative Yuan election on the same day, which secured a DPP majority in the legislature.
Background
Presidential candidates and vice-presidential running mates are elected on the same ticket, using first-past-the-post. Due to constitutional two-term limits, incumbent president Ma Ying-jeou of Kuomintang was ineligible to seek re-election. It was the 14th election of the President of the Republic of China since the 1948 Constitution and the sixth direct election by the citizens of Taiwan, which was previously indirectly elected by the National Assembly prior to 1996.
Ma Ying-jeou of Kuomintang was elected the second term after defeating Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party in the 2012 presidential election with nearly six million votes. However the Ma presidency was overshadowed by the historic Sunflower Movement student protest in 2014 against the Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement (CSSTA) in which 500,000 protesters were mobilized and the Legislative Yuan was occupied by the protesters for the first time.[7][8][9]
The ruling Kuomintang suffered a historic defeat in the following municipal elections in November 2014, in which the Kuomintang lost nine of the 15 mayorships it previously held. Other anti-government movements such as the White Shirt Army, a mass protest following the death of army conscript Hung Chung-chiu, and also the High School Edition protest, also hammered the credibility of the Ma government.[10][11]
Nominations
Democratic Progressive Party
According to internal party protocols, presidential primaries are conducted via nationwide opinion polling.[12] Registration was held between 2 and 16 February 2015. After Mayor of Kaohsiung Chen Chu, Mayor of Tainan William Lai and former Premier Su Tseng-chang who were seen as likely candidates, declined to run, [13] which left the candidacy for the 2012 presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen, who was also the incumbent DPP chairwoman and former Vice Premier. Tsai became the only candidate that registered in February 2015, and thus nationwide opinion polling that were planned to be conducted between 16 and 18 March were suspended. Tsai was duly nominated by the DPP on 15 April 2015.[14] On 16 November 2015, Tsai Ing-wen announced former Minister of Health Chen Chien-jen as her running mate, who consequently resigned from his post as deputy director of Academia Sinica.
Democratic Progressive nominees
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Kuomintang
After the landslide defeat in the municipal elections, many Kuomintang heavyweights Vice President Wu Den-yih, President of the Legislative Yuan Wang Jin-pyng and the party chairman Eric Chu decided not to run in the race.[15] The field was left open to Hung Hsiu-chu, the incumbent Vice President of the Legislative Yuan] who was also a legislator for eight consecutive terms since 1989.[10]
According to internal party protocols, presidential primaries are conducted via a combination of party member vote with 30% weighting, and nationwide opinion polling with 70% weighting.[16] Registration and petitions were conducted between 20 April to 18 May 2015. Two candidates, including Hung Hsiu-chu;[17][18][19] and Yang Chih-liang, former Minister of Health, registered.[20][21] Hung garnered 35,210 signatories in her petition, crossing the eligibility threshold of 15,000 signatories; while Yang garnered only 5,234 signatories, nullifying his candidacy.[22] The party member vote was suspended because Hung was the only eligible candidate. Nationwide opinion polling were conducted from 12 to 13 June 2015; with equal weighting between approval rating and general election polling. Hung garnered an average of 46.20% in the nationwide polling, crossing the eligibility threshold of 30%, and was nominated unopposedly by the party congress on 19 July 2015.[23][24]
However Hung's remarks on the Cross-Strait policy sparked fears over her perceived pro-unification stance which alienated some in her own party, taking a more moderate line, as she had advocated unification with the mainland but was recently stopped by senior party members, as most on the island prefer the status quo.[25][26] In addition, Hung was still trailing Democratic Progressive Party candidate Tsai Ing-wen in the polls by double-digits. Tsai is consistently showing 40-50 percent support in the polls, while Hung’s numbers are closer to those of third party candidates James Soong. One poll had Tsai at 45 percent support and Hung at only 12 percent. The poor showing in the polls alarmed the senior party members.[3]
According to the reports from CNA, Eric Chu, the incubment KMT chairman and Mayor of New Taipei, had privately urged Hung to step aside and allow another candidate to run, most likely Chu himself.[3] In October 2015, Hung cited that Republic of China Constitution calls for "ultimate unification with China," although she added "be it in 50 years or 100 years." Eric Chu publicly responded by saying Hung's policy deviated from the mainstream and that the party has decided to call an extempore congress to consider a new candidate.[27]
On 17 October, an extraordinary KMT party congress was called. The delegates voted overwhelmingly to nullify Hung Hsiu-chu's nomination. The congress also selected Chu to repalce Hung as the presidential candidate of the KMT.[4] On 18 Novemberm Chu selected Wang Ju-hsuan as his running mate, who had a background as a human rights lawyer and former Minister of Council of Labor Affairs.[28]
Kuomintang nominees
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Nullified nominee
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People First Party
James Soong, Chairman of the People First Party (PFP) also announced his presidential candidacy on 6 August 2015, making it his fourth presidential bid after 2000, 2004 and 2008 elections.[29] On 18 November 2015, Soong announced Minkuotang (MKT) chairwoman and legislator Hsu Hsin-ying as his running mate.[30] The PFP–MKT coalition became the first pair of candidates to register for the election on 23 November 2015.[31]
People First nominees
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| style="width:3em; font-size:135%; background:Template:People First Party (Republic of China)/meta/color; width:200px;"|James Soong | style="width:3em; font-size:135%; background:Template:People First Party (Republic of China)/meta/color; width:200px;"|Hsu Hsin-ying | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Other candidates
According to article 22 of the President and Vice President Election and Recall Act, Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates not nominated by an eligible political party, may qualify via a petition signed by at least 1.5% of the number of eligible voters during the preceding legislative election: a threshold of 269,709 eligible voters.[32]
- Nori Shih, former legislator and chair of the Democratic Progressive Party, declared his candidature on 21 May 2015.[33] However, due to the failure to collect sufficient signatories on his petition, he withdrew his candidacy on 16 September 2015.[34]
- Hsu Jung-shu, chair of the People United Party, and former legislator of the Democratic Progressive Party, declared her candidature on 7 July 2015, and received support from the Taiwan Progressive Party, National Health Service Alliance, and Zhongshan Party.[35] However, despite initially registering at the central election commission, Hsu and her running mate, Hsia Han-ren did not submit their petition, thus nullifying their candidacy.[36]
- Chang Dong-shan, chair of the Grand Union of National Happiness, and running mate, Lin Li-rong, chair of the Positive Party, initially registered at the central election commission, but collected only 72 signatures thus nullifying their candidacy.[36]
- Independent candidates Lan Hsin-kei and Chu Hsu-fang, also registered at the central election commission, but did not submit their petition.[36]
- Music professor Lin You-hsiang and running mate, Hung Mei-chen were endorsed by the Union of Taiwanese Party Chairs, and initially registered at the central election commission, but also failed to submit their petition.[36]
General election campaign
After the controversial move of the KMT replacing Hung Hsiu-chu with Eric Chu as the presidential candidate less than 100 days before the January 16 general election, the poll still showed Chu trailing behind DPP candidate Tsai Ing-wen and was predicted to certainly lose. Critics said Chu over-thought his strategy and threw his hat in the ring when it was too late and being too close to the unpopular incumbent President Ma Ying-jeou.[37][38] Furthermore, Chu's running mate, Vice Presidential candidate Wang Ju-hsuan was mired in series of scandals, such as proposing unpaid leave, suing laid-off workers, and the "22K policy" which was blamed for decreasing young people’s wages during her tenure as Minister of the Council of Labor Affairs, in addition to the ethical debate over her purchase of military housing.[39]
Like Ma, Chu put economic growth at the top of his agenda. Chu advocated for building stronger economic ties with China, seeing that as crucial to lifting Taiwan's economy out of isolation.[40] He also said he would work to further Taiwan’s objective of participating in regional integration initiatives such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership.[41] Chu also proposed a "three strategy plan," a highlight of which is to dramatically raise basic wages from $20,008 new Taiwan dollars (NT) to NT $30,000 over four years.[42]
With regard to relations with mainland China, Chu said he would be in line with his party's policy to continue to promote the development of cross-strait ties on the basis of the "1992 Consensus," in which both sides insist there is "one China" but agree to disagree on what this means. He attacked Tsai for her "vague policies", especially her approach to cross-strait relations as Tsai refused to accept Beijing's precondition that she first accept that Taiwan is a part of "one China". However, Tsai had moderated her party's pro-independence stance and promised to maintain peaceful and stable relations and expressed her openness to dialogues with the Beijing government.[41][40] She stressed the importance of maintaining the status quo "in accordance with the will of the Taiwanese people and the existing ROC constitutional order." On the other hand, Tsai pledged to promote greater spending on indigenous defense programs, including research and development, in order to meet the nation’s long-term defense needs.[41]
On the domestic issues, Tsai called for comprehensive reform in areas such as bureaucratic efficiency, the education system, fiscal policy and regional development. She said that, above all, the country must establish a government that "puts the people first" and the "fruits of economic success should be shared fairly among all citizens."[41] She pledged to solve the problem of unemployment rate, weak economic growth, an unequal distribution of wealth and impeding upward mobility.[41]
Capitalizing on the unpopularity of the KMT’s Chu-Wang ticket, James Soong, the third party candidate of the PFP stressed that he would seek a cross-party cooperation on sharing power if elected and sought a middle path that would bridge the blue-green divide. According to the most recent surveys, is polling at about 14%, or just five percentage point behind the KMT.[38]
The Ma–Xi meeting in November 2015 between Ma Ying-jeou and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Singapore provided little political benefit to the KMT, affirming how most Taiwanese do not view closer relations with China to be beneficial to Taiwan.[38]
Debates
| No. | Date | Time | Host | Participants |
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| 1 | December 26, 2015 | 2 p.m. | SET News | Chen Chien-jen Wang Ju-hsuan Hsu Hsin-ying |
| 2 | December 27, 2015 | 2 p.m. | Public Television Service | Tsai Ing-wen Eric Chu James Soong |
| 3 | January 2, 2016 | 2 p.m. | SET News | Tsai Ing-wen Eric Chu James Soong |
Opinion polling
| Polling organisation | Date(s) administered |
Eric Chu KMT |
Tsai Ing-wen DPP |
James Soong PFP |
Undecided |
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| Decision Making Research | 24 Aug 2015 | 25.5% | 41.2% | 15.0% | 18.3% |
| Kuomintang | 14 Sep 2015 | 33% | 43% | 13% | 11% |
| Apple Daily | 6 Oct 2015 | 29.28% | 40.92% | 15.07% | 14.73% |
| Television Broadcasts Satellite | 7 Oct 2015 | 29% | 48% | 10% | 13% |
| Decision Making Research | 7 Oct 2015 | 19.0% | 42.1% | 14.1% | 24.8% |
| Taiwan Indicators Survey Research | 13 Oct 2015 | 21.0% | 44.6% | 12.0% | 22.4% |
| Apple Daily | 16 Oct 2015 | 26.23% | 45.47% | 12.63% | 15.67% |
| Fades Survey Research | 16 Oct 2015 | 17.17% | 40.18% | 22.39% | 17.72% |
| Liberty Times | 17 Oct 2015 | 18.91% | 47.04% | 7.86% | 26.19% |
| Decision Making Research | 17 Oct 2015 | 21.9% | 45.2% | 13.8% | 19.1% |
| Trend Survey Research | 17 Oct 2015 | 20.7% | 41.6% | 10.1% | 27.6% |
| TVBS | 19 Oct 2015 | 29% | 46% | 10% | 15% |
| China Times | 22 Oct 2015 | 21.8% | 38.9% | 8.8% | 30.5% |
| People First Party | 24 Oct 2015 | 17% | 40% | 23% | 20% |
| Taiwan Indicators Survey Research | 12 Nov 2015 | 20.4% | 46.2% | 10.4% | 13% |
| Shih Hsin University Research | 27 Nov 2015 | 18.4% | 44.5% | 6.8% | 30.3% |
| SET News | 6 Dec 2015 | 15.7% | 44.9% | 13.7% | 25.7% |
| TVBS | 13 Dec 2015 | 22% | 45% | 10% | 23% |
| New Taipei City | |||||
| Television Broadcasts Satellite | 15 Oct 2015 | 31% | 47% | 14% | 7% |
| New Taipei City 6th Constituency | |||||
| Next Television | 21 Oct 2015 | 20.9% | 49.8% | 8.1% | 21.2% |
| Hsinchu City | |||||
| Focus Survey Research | 20 Oct 2015 | 21.0% | 46.7% | 12.9% | 19.4% |
| Taichung City | |||||
| Kuomintang | 15 Oct 2015 | 12.8% | 41.4% | 8.4% | 37.4% |
Chou Tzu-yu flag incident
On 15 January 2016, one day before the election, Chou Tzu-yu, a 16-year-old Taiwanese singer and a member of the South Korean K-pop girl group Twice, attracted attention with her appearance in a South Korean variety show called My Little Television, in which she introduced herself and waved the flag of the Republic of China alongside that of South Korea. Japan's flag was also shown as the other members of the group represented their nationality throughout the show. However, soon after the episode was broadcast it sparked controversy in China when Taiwanese-born China-based singer Huang An accused Chou of being a "pro-Taiwanese independence activist".[43] After the uproar over the issue, the group's record label, JYP Entertainment cancelled all activities of the group in China and released a video where Chou is shown reading an apology, all this the day before the election.[44] She mentioned in part:
"There is only one China. The two sides of the [Taiwan] Strait are one entity. I feel proud being a Chinese. I, as a Chinese, have hurt the company and netizens’ feelings due to my words and actions during overseas promotions. I feel very, very sorry and also very guilty."[45]
Nevertheless, many Taiwanese saw her apology as "humiliating and a sign of Taiwan's predicament that Chou had to apologize for expressing her Taiwanese identity and for showing her nation's flag." Tsai in her victory speech also mentioned how it had "angered many Taiwanese people, regardless of their political affiliation." And although it was believed by many that this incident affected the election, contributing to one or two percentage points of Tsai's winning margin,[46] it was thought that the issue probably had a very minor impact on the final outcome since most believed that people would have voted for Tsai anyway. However it is believed that the incident might potentially contribute to Taiwan's desire to become an independent state.[45][47]
Results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | |||
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| style="background-color:Template:Democratic Progressive Party/meta/color"| | File:Green Taiwan in White Cross.svg Democratic Progressive Party | Tsai Ing-wen | Chen Chien-jen | 6,894,744 | 56.12% | |
| style="background-color:Template:Kuomintang/meta/color"| |  Kuomintang
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Eric Chu | Wang Ju-hsuan | 3,813,365 | 31.04% | |
| style="background-color:Template:People First Party (Republic of China)/meta/color"| |  People First Party
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James Soong | Hsu Hsin-ying | 1,576,861 | 12.84% | |
| Total | 12,284,970 | 100% | ||||
| Valid votes | 12,284,970 | 98.69% | ||||
| Invalid votes | 163,332 | 1.31% | ||||
| Votes cast / turnout | 12,448,302 | 66.27% | ||||
| Eligible voters | 18,782,991 | |||||
Results by administrative divisions
| Administrative divisions |
Eligible voters |
Eric Chu KMT |
Tsai Ing-wen DPP |
James Soong PFP |
Invalid votes |
Turnout | Margin | |||
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| Taipei City | 2,175,986 | 546,491 | 37.49 | 757,383 | 51.96 | 153,804 | 10.55 | 22,540 | 68.03 | 210,892 |
| New Taipei City | 3,204,367 | 709,374 | 33.34 | 1,165,888 | 54.79 | 252,486 | 11.87 | 26,481 | 67.23 | 456,514 |
| Keelung City | 306,548 | 68,357 | 35.29 | 93,402 | 48.22 | 31,955 | 16.49 | 2,432 | 63.99 | 25,045 |
| Yilan County | 369,211 | 59,216 | 25.38 | 144,798 | 62.06 | 29,288 | 12.56 | 3,188 | 64.05 | 85,582 |
| Taoyuan City | 1,627,598 | 369,013 | 34.39 | 547,573 | 51.03 | 156,518 | 14.58 | 11,898 | 66.66 | 178,560 |
| Hsinchu County | 412,731 | 94,603 | 35.28 | 114,023 | 42.52 | 59,510 | 22.20 | 3,803 | 65.89 | 19,420 |
| Hsinchu City | 328,580 | 71,771 | 32.42 | 113,386 | 51.22 | 36,198 | 16.35 | 3,138 | 68.32 | 41,615 |
| Miaoli County | 448,520 | 107,779 | 37.55 | 130,461 | 45.45 | 48,788 | 17.00 | 3,652 | 64.81 | 22,682 |
| Taichung City | 2,138,519 | 430,005 | 29.82 | 793,281 | 55.01 | 218,810 | 15.17 | 19,800 | 68.36 | 363,276 |
| Changhua County | 1,022,962 | 193,117 | 28.80 | 378,736 | 56.47 | 98,807 | 14.73 | 10,921 | 66.63 | 185,619 |
| Nantou County | 415,122 | 83,604 | 32.08 | 136,104 | 52.23 | 40,868 | 15.69 | 3,649 | 63.65 | 52,500 |
| Yunlin County | 566,207 | 86,047 | 24.93 | 218,842 | 63.41 | 40,236 | 11.66 | 4,997 | 61.84 | 132,795 |
| Chiayi County | 430,885 | 65,425 | 23.38 | 182,913 | 65.37 | 31,469 | 11.25 | 4,295 | 65.93 | 117,488 |
| Chiayi City | 210,758 | 38,822 | 27.95 | 83,143 | 59.86 | 16,926 | 12.19 | 1,492 | 66.61 | 44,321 |
| Tainan City | 1,528,246 | 219,196 | 22.07 | 670,608 | 67.52 | 103,432 | 10.41 | 12,457 | 65.81 | 451,412 |
| Kaohsiung City | 2,254,324 | 391,823 | 26.00 | 955,168 | 63.39 | 159,765 | 10.61 | 18,117 | 67.64 | 563,345 |
| Pingtung County | 689,170 | 121,291 | 26.99 | 285,297 | 63.49 | 42,768 | 9.52 | 5,595 | 66.01 | 164,006 |
| Taitung County | 179,547 | 43,581 | 44.62 | 37,517 | 38.42 | 16,565 | 16.96 | 1,208 | 55.07 | 6,064 |
| Hualian County | 267,862 | 73,894 | 47.72 | 57,198 | 36.94 | 23,751 | 15.34 | 2,342 | 58.68 | 16,696 |
| Penghu County | 84,222 | 12,564 | 29.48 | 21,658 | 50.81% | 8,401 | 19.71 | 643 | 51.37 | 9,094 |
| Kinmen County | 111,386 | 24,327 | 66.10 | 6,626 | 18.00 | 5,852 | 15.90 | 599 | 33.58% | 17,701 |
| Lienchiang County | 10,240 | 3,065 | 68.60 | 739 | 16.54 | 664 | 14.86 | 85 | 44.46 | 2,326 |
Aftermath
The defeated candidate Eric Chu resigned as the KMT Chairman in his concession speech on the election night.[6] KMT Vice Chairman Hau Lung-bin also announced he was stepping down after his defeat in the legislative election.[48] In the March chairmanship election, the ousted presidential candidate Hung Hsiu-chu was elected as the first female party chair.[49]
Following the electoral defeat of the ruling KMT, the cabinet led by Premier of the Executive Yuan Mao Chi-kuo resigned en masse immediately. His position was assumed by Vice Premier Simon Chang. President Ma Ying-jeou offered the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to form a Cabinet before its President-elect Tsai Ing-wen is sworn in on May 20, but the offer was rejected by Tsai.[50]
Tsai became the first female president in Taiwan, as well as the Chinese-speaking world when she was sworn in at the Presidential Building on 20 May 2016.[51]
See also
- 2014 Taiwanese local elections
- 2016 Taiwan general election
- 2016 Taiwan legislative election
- Kuomintang chairmanship election, 2016
- Kuomintang chairmanship election, 2017
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External links
Government websites
Candidates' websites
- Eric Chu: ONE Taiwan 台灣就是力量
- Tsai Ing-wen: 點亮台灣 Light up Taiwan
- James Soong: 一起找出路
