January 20, 2017

"On January 16, 2016, Taiwan had its second two-in-one presidential and legislative elections. The chairwoman of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), Tsai Ing-wen, won the presidential election with 56.1 percent of the votes to become Taiwan’s first female president. In the legislative election, the DPP captured 68 seats, about 60.2 percent of the total 113 seats, up from 40, while the nationalist Kuomintang (KMT) won only 35 seats, down from 64. Two small parties, the newly established pro-independence fundamentalist New Power Party (NPP) and the pro-unification People First Party (PFP) received five and three seats respectively. 

The post-election survey conducted by the Election Study Center at the National Chengchi University shows that, except for mainlanders in Taiwan, Tsai received majority support in almost every social group defined by ethnicity, age, gender, education and class. Specifically, among the three major ethnic groups in Taiwan, most mainlanders maintained their stronger support for the KMT, with 62.2 percent of them voting for the KMT presidential candidate Eric Chu, while only 23.5 percent voted for Tsai in the election. In contrast, the votes for Tsai in the Minnan and Hakka ethnic groups and all the age, gender, education and class groups fall into the high support range of 55–70 percent for Tsai, except for the age group of 50–59 (49.4 percent)."

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