2020 Taiwan presidential election

The 15th President and Vice President election of the Republic of China (Chinese: 中華民國第十五屆總統、副總統選舉) took place in Taiwan on 11 January 2020.^[1] Voters re-elected President and Vice President.

2020 Taiwanese presidential election

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Registered	19,311,105
Turnout	74.9% 8.6 pp
Nominee Tsai Ing-wen Han Kuo-yu James Soong Party DPP KMT People First Running mate William Lai Chang San-cheng Sandra Yu Popular vote 8,170,231 5,522,119 608,590 Percentage 57.1% 38.6% 4.3%
Leading candidates and vote share by administrative division
President before election Tsai Ing-wen DPP Elected President Tsai Ing-wen DPP

The process of presidential primary elections and nominations were held during the last six months of 2019.

Current President Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), who was elected in 2016, won re-election. She is scheduled to be inaugurated on 20 May 2020.

Candidates

Democratic Progressive Party

Nominees

2020 Democratic Progressive ticket
Tsai Ing-wen	William Lai
for President	for Vice President
President of the Republic of China (2016–present)	Premier of the Republic of China (2017–2019)

Candidates

William Lai
President of the Executive Yuan (2017–2019)
LN: June 13, 2019

Kuomintang

Nominees

2020 Kuomintang ticket
Han Kuo-yu	Chang San-cheng
for President	for Vice President
Mayor of Kaohsiung (2018–present)	Premier of the Republic of China (2016)

Candidates

Terry Gou	Eric Chu	Chou Hsi-wei	Chang Ya-chung	Wang Jin-pyng	Lo Chih-chiang
Founder and Former Chairman of Foxconn	Mayor of New Taipei (2010–2018)	Magistrate of Taipei County (2005–2010)	National Taiwan University Professor	Member of the Legislative Yuan (1976–present)	Taipei City Councillor (2018–present)
LN: July 15, 2019	LN: July 15, 2019	LN: July 15, 2019	LN: July 15, 2019	W: June 6, 2019	W: April 7, 2019
[2]	[3]	[4]	[5]	[6][7]	[8][9]

People First Party

Nominees

2020 People First ticket
James Soong	Sandra Yu
for President	for Vice President
Governor of Taiwan (1994–1998)	United Communications Group chairwoman (2009–2018)

Other parties and independents

Withdrawn candidates

• Chang San-cheng, President of the Executive Yuan (2016)^[10][11]
• Yang Shih-kuang, Television presenter and New Party Youth Corps leader^[12][13]
• Annette Lu, Vice President of the Republic of China (2000–2008)^[14][15]

Polling

Opinion pollings of the 2020 Taiwanese presidential election between Tsai Ing-wen, Han Kuo-yu and James Soong.

References

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2. Shih, Hsiao-kuang; Hetherington, William (18 April 2019). "Hon Hai's Gou officially enters presidential race". Taipei Times.
3. 朱立倫卸新北市長 宣布投入2020總統選舉，中央社，2018-12-25
4. Hsu, Stacy (2 March 2019). "KMT brass might select candidate: Wu". Taipei Times. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
5. Maxon, Ann (8 January 2019). "Ex-Hung Hsiu-chu aide eyes presidential run". Taipei Times. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
6. Liu, Kuan-ting; Wang, Flor (6 June 2019). "Wang Jin-pyng drops bid for Taiwan President, bows out of KMT primary". Taiwan News. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
7. "Former legislative speaker announces presidential bid". Central News Agency. 7 March 2019. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
8. 拋震撼彈！羅智強宣布4階段參選總統！ China Times, 26 November 2018
9. "羅智強宣布不選總統了！要吳敦義「快徵召韓國瑜」". tw.news.yahoo.com.
10. Lee, Hsin-fang (17 February 2019). "Former premier Simon Chang seeks 2020 presidential run as independent". Taipei Times. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
11. 2019-08-02【POP撞新聞】黃暐瀚專訪張善政：「挺韓、不選2020」！. POP Radio (in Chinese (Taiwan)). 2 August 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
12. Chen, Yu-fu (3 July 2019). "New Party candidate vows to target 'woman' Tsai". Taipei Times. Retrieved 3 July 2019.
13. 總統連署未達門檻 新黨楊世光宣布改挺韓國瑜. FTV News (in Chinese (Taiwan)). 1 November 2019. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
14. Wu, Chun-feng; Yang, Chun-hui; Chung, Jake (18 September 2019). "Ex-vice president Lu to run for president". Taipei Times. Retrieved 18 September 2019.
15. Huang, Rei-hung; Ko, Lin (2 November 2019). "Former Taiwan vice president abandons presidential bid". Central News Agency. Retrieved 2 November 2019.