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1989 Taiwanese legislative election

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All 130 seats in the Legislative Yuan 65 seats needed for a majority
Majority party Minority party Third party   Leader Lee Teng-hui Huang Hsin-chieh Li Huang Party Kuomintang DPP Youth Alliance Pan-Blue Pan-Green — Seats before 83 12 2 Seats won 94 21 1 Seat change 11 9 1

Legislative elections were held in Taiwan on 2 December 1989 to elect members of the Legislative Yuan.

Background

Compared with the sixth supplementary election the number of new delegates to the Legislative Yuan had been increased from 100 to 130. Of these, 101 were to be elected directly representing Taiwan Province and the special municipalities of Taipei City and Kaohsiung City. The remaining 29 seats were to represent overseas nationals, these delegates were appointed by the President.

Results

Turnout for the supplementary election was 75.5%. Of the 101 directly elected delegates, 72 belonged to the Kuomintang, 21 to Democratic Progressive Party and 8 were independents.

By virtue of achieving more than 20 seats, the Democratic Progressive Party secured the prerogative to propose legislation in the Legislative Yuan.

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Kuomintang			94	+11
	Democratic Progressive Party			21	+9
	Chinese Youth Party			1	–1
	Independents			14	+8
Total				130	+30
Valid votes		9,115,778	96.25
Invalid/blank votes		354,748	3.75
Total votes		9,470,526	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		12,600,901	75.16
Source: Nohlen et al.

References

1. Joseph Bosco (1994) "Faction versus Ideology: Mobilization Strategies in Taiwan's Elections" The China Quarterly, No. 137, pp28–62
2. Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, pp539–554 ISBN 0-19-924959-8

See also

• History of Taiwan (1945–present)#Democratic reforms
• Politics of the Republic of China
• List of political parties in Taiwan
• Political status of Taiwan

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