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taiwan*

H.E.Lee, Chin-Yung,
Chairman, CEC

PArt i PArt ii
CoUNtrY ProfiLE LEgisLAtivE sYstEM

1. Official Name LEGISLATURE
Republic of China (Taiwan)
1. Structure of National Legislature
2. Government Unicameral
Multi-party Democracy
2. Names of the Houses in vernacular and English
3. Head of State Designation Legislative Yuan
President TSAI Ing-wen
3. Total no. of members in each house elected/
4. Head of government Designation nominated
Premier SU Tseng- Chang The Legislative Yuan consists of 113 members.

5. Capital 1. 73 are elected from single-member electoral
Taipei City districts in special municipalities, counties and
cities.
6. Currency
New Taiwan Dollar (TWD) 2. 6 are Indigenous (3 from highland areas and 3
from lowland areas).
7. Ethnic Groups (with %age population) 3. The remaining 34 seats are legislator-at-large
Over 95 percent Han Chinese (including Holo, Hak- seats proportionally allocated to political parties.
ka and other groups that originated in China), 2 Voters select political parties for these seats, and
percent indigenous Malayo-Polynesian peoples, 2 members of the Legislative Yuan will be chosen
percent new immigrants, primarily from China and in accordance with candidate lists provided by
Southeast Asia
political parties.
8. Date of Independence 4. Popular House
1911 Legislative Yuan

9. Date of adoption of Democratic Constitution
Promulgated in 1947 5. Type of Electoral System
1. For Presidential Election, the group of candi-
10. Language (s) dates who get the most votes shall be elected.
Mandarin (Chinese), Holo (Taiwanese), Hakka,
Austronesian languages 2. Electoral district legislator elections adopt a
single-member district plurality mechanism,
11. Literacy Levels whereby the candidate with the most votes is
Male:99.8 % Female:98.13 % elected (FPTP).
Total: 98.96% (2019)

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