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Presidential elections were held in Taiwan on 22 March 2008. [ 1][ 2] Kuomintang (KMT) nominee Ma Ying-jeou won with 58% of the vote, ending eight years of Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) rule. Along with the 2008 legislative election, Ma's landslide victory brought the Kuomintang back to power in the Republic of China. [ 3][ 4]
Presidential elections in Taiwan. The election of the president and vice president of Taiwan ( Chinese: 中華民國總統、副總統選舉) is a universal direct election through secret vote by the citizens of Taiwan (ROC) in the Free Area. ROC presidents are elected by relative majority (plurality), meaning the candidate with the most votes ...
DPP. Presidential elections were held in Taiwan on 18 March 2000 to elect the president and vice president. With a voter turnout of 83%, Chen Shui-bian and Annette Lu of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) were elected president and vice president respectively with a slight plurality. This election ended more than half a century of ...
In order to vote in Taiwan, one must be a national with household registration of the Republic of China who will be 20 years or older on the day before the election. For presidential elections, the voter must have once lived in the Taiwan area for six consecutive months or longer. Residents of the area at the time of the election are ...
Tân Chúi-píⁿ. Chen Shui-bian ( Chinese: 陳水扁; born 12 October 1950) is a Taiwanese former politician and lawyer who served as the 5th president of the Republic of China ( Taiwan) from 2000 to 2008. Chen was the first president from the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) which ended the Kuomintang 's (KMT) 55 years of continuous rule ...
Ruling-party candidate Lai Ching-te emerged victorious in Taiwan’s presidential election on Saturday, a result that will determine the trajectory of the self-ruled democracy’s contentious ...
In the lead-up to Taiwan’s election, China has also kept up its near-daily military pressure, with the Taiwanese Defense Ministry detecting 10 Chinese aircraft and 11 vessels around the island ...
9 March – The launching of the first line (Red Line) of Kaohsiung Mass Rapid Transit in Kaohsiung. 22 March – Ma Ying-jeou is elected President of the Republic of China with more than 58% of the votes in the 2008 presidential election, handing the presidency back to the Kuomintang (KMT) after eight years under the Democratic Progressive Party.