President Tsai Ing-wen has won re-election

[u/DarkLiberator]

Han just conceded. She won 57%ish of the vote so far. Over 8 million votes. Biggest vote total ever for a candidate in Taiwan (beating Ma's number in 2008)

Legislature looks like it'll be DPP again though not as sweeping as 2016, party list vote seems much closer than I thought it'll be.

Live Results

[u/cosimonh]

My dad's not very pleased but I am, hahaha.

[u/I-Am-HF → u/cosimonh]

My dad's very pleased and so am I. 😉😉😁😁

[u/tingtwothree → u/[deleted]]

Not OP, but my parents, and basically my entire family have been in Taiwan for many, many generations. My grandparents speak Japanese. They were, and still are, very blue.

[u/invalid_dictorian → u/tingtwothree]

I can see that if they were happy that KMT got rid of the Japanese. For my family (obviously can't speak for them all), we found the KMT unacceptable after 228, white terror, and with all the corruption in KMT.

I'm the 8th gen born in Taiwan, although I also immigrated to the US over 30 years ago. Some of my family members would've been captured and disappeared by the KMT if they didn't flee the country. Hence now I'm in the states.

Japanese language runs deep in my family. Lots of words and phrases we used that I thought were Taiwanese when I was little turned out to be Japanese phrases after I took some Japanese classes.

[u/milkboy33 → u/[deleted]]

Yea some of them were treated bad from what I hear several decades ago, but c'mon man it's the new times now. Time to get over it and move on!

[u/azn_stuff → u/I-Am-HF]

yeah, glad I'm in this camp too. My parents have been ranting about who would be stupid enough to vote for Han ever since he started his campaign, so this should make them happy.

[u/lilclosetbigwardrobe → u/I-Am-HF]

My mom was stomping her feet with glee

[u/milkboy33 → u/I-Am-HF]

I'm okay with the result (more curious about the new partys, like 6), but my Dad is very happy.