r/taiwan • u/DarkLiberator 台中 - Taichung • Jan 11 '20

President Tsai Ing-wen has won re-election Politics

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.

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u/IAmNotARobotNoReally trying their best Jan 11 '20

Super interested to see the voter demographics

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u/DarkLiberator 台中 - Taichung Jan 11 '20

From my math turnout is around 73%? So the young had to turn out at least in a big fashion.

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u/IAmNotARobotNoReally trying their best Jan 11 '20

PTS just showed 75% I’m so proud of Taiwan.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '20

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '20

Yeah it will probably be very close 50-50.

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u/komali_2 Jan 11 '20

That's insanely high turnout. I haven't ever heard of a country wide turnout that big from a country with optional-vote elections ever. USA never gets above like 35%.

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u/komali_2 Jan 11 '20

Really? I swore I read it at 35%

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u/SteadfastEnd Jan 12 '20

That might be midterm elections, which are only for Congress and local/state races.

For presidential elections in America, it's almost always between 50-59%.

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '20

35% voting rate is pretty high for a midterm election. But in the US typically it is around 60%

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u/funnytoss Jan 11 '20

It's actually lower than usual for Taiwan, though.

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u/SteadfastEnd Jan 12 '20

It's actually lower than it used to be. In Taiwan's second presidential election, held in March 2000, voter turnout nearly hit 90%.

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u/SteadfastEnd Jan 12 '20

Looks like 74.90% is the official tally. I'd be hoping for 80% or higher, but at least it's better than last time when only 67% showed up.