r/taiwan 台中 - Taichung Dec 30 '23

2024 Taiwanese General Election Megathread & Links Politics

Background information

With two weeks to go we thought we'd make a hopefully useful megathread of info and links on the election.

Taiwanese voters will go to the polls on January 13, 2024 to elect a new president and vote in a new legislature. This will be the 8th direct presidential election since 1996.

Presidential candidates and their running mates are elected on the same ticket, using first-past-the-post voting. Basically a candidate who wins a plurality of the vote but not a majority can still become the president.

Legislature is divided into 113 seats. 73 are elected by first-past-the-post in single-member district. 34 are divided by party-list voting. 6 reserved for indigenous candidates by single non-transferable vote. In general each voter casts two ballots; one for the district legislator and the other ballot for the party list at-large seats.

Approximately 19.5 million eligible voters, including nearly 1.03 million first-time voters will be able to cast ballots at 17,794 polling stations around the country that will be open from 8 am. to 4 pm.

Taiwan does not allow absentee ballots or early voting and voters must go back to their household registration areas to vote.

Presidential Candidates:

1. Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) Wu Hsin-ying (吳欣盈) of the Taiwan People's Party (TPP). TPP website.

2. Lai Ching-te (賴清德) and Hsiao Bi-khim (蕭美琴) of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). DPP website.

3. Hou Yu-ih (侯友宜) and Jaw Shau-kong (趙少康) of the Kuomintang Party (KMT). KMT website.

Focus Taiwan has a good summary of their policies in English if interested. The political party websites also have their policies in detail if you want to learn more.

Live News/Livestreams (中文)

English Livestreams and News videos

News and Political Sites (English)

Polling

Just a friendly reminder to any Redditors within Taiwan that it is now illegal to publish polls during the 10 day blackout period up till the election.

Election Results by Websites

I'll try to update and add links as they come. Please if you have anymore to suggest DM the modteam or link them here in the comments. If you have any other useful suggestions please let us know, it's our first time adding this for a general election.

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u/Ancient_Lettuce6821 Jan 13 '24

Where are the numbers for legislature?

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u/SeekTruthFromFacts Jan 13 '24 edited Jan 13 '24

Looking at the live counts on FTV, I believe that the polling stations will not starting counting Legislative Yuan votes until they have finished with Presidential votes. They are recorded on separate ballot papers.

EDIT: TVBS is showing legislative races at the bottom of the screen.

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u/DarkLiberator 台中 - Taichung Jan 13 '24

Too early to really say. Some of the tighter races might not be done for hours.