Republic of China legislative election, 2008
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Republic of China legislative election, 2008 All 113 seats to the Legislative Yuan
September 11, 2005
Leader		Wang Jin-pyng	Frank Hsieh
Party		KMT	DPP
Leader's seat		Nationwide	n/a
Last election		114 seats, 49.81%	86 seats, 37.4%
Seats won		86	26
Seat change		+21.79%	-6.4%
Popular vote		21,036,425	11,025,071
Percentage		71.7%	31.0%
Incumbent President of the Legislative Yuan Wang Jin-pyng KMT President of the Legislative Yuan-Elect Wang Jin-pyng KMT

Legislative elections were held on January 12, 2008 in the Republic of China (Taiwan). 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 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.

These elections elected the first set of legislators to serve a longer four-year term in the Legislative Yuan, after an amendment in the Constitution of the Republic of China in 2005, which intended to synchronize the legislative and presidential elections and reduce the size of the Legislative Yuan by half (see Republic of China National Assembly election, 2005). Two transitional justice referendums, both of which failed to pass due to low turnout, were held at the same time.

Legislature reform

For the first time in the history of the Republic of China, most members of the Legislative Yuan were to be elected from single-member districts: 73 of the 113 members were chosen in such districts by the plurality voting system (first-past-the-post). Parallel to the single member constituencies, 34 seats under an Additional Member System were elected in one national district by party-list proportional representation. For these seats, only political parties whose votes exceed a five percent threshold were eligible for the allocation. Six further seats were reserved for Taiwanese aborigines. Therefore, each elector had two ballots under parallel voting.

The aboriginal members were elected by single non-transferable vote in two 3-member constituencies for lowland aborigines and highland aborigines respectively. This did not fulfill the promise in the treaty-like document A New Partnership Between the Indigenous Peoples and the Government of Taiwan, where each of the 13 recognized indigenous peoples was to get at least one seat, and the distinction between highland and lowland abolished.

The breakdown by administrative unit was:^[1]