Legislative Yuan

The Legislative Yuan is the unicameral legislature of the Republic of China now based in Taiwan. It is one of the five branches (五院; wǔyuàn; gō͘-īⁿ) of government. The parliament of the republic includes all three of the National Assembly (now abolished), the Legislative Yuan, and the Control Yuan.^[3]

Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China 中華民國立法院
11th Legislative Yuan
Type
Type	Unicameral Lower house (1947–2005)
History
Founded	5 December 1928; 96 years ago (1928-12-05) (pre-constitution) 18 May 1948; 76 years ago (1948-05-18) (1947 Constitution)[1][2] 24 February 1950; 75 years ago (1950-02-24) (Taiwan) 7 June 2005; 19 years ago (2005-06-07) (current form)
Disbanded	1 October 1949; 75 years ago (1949-10-01) (mainland) 7 December 1949; 75 years ago (1949-12-07) (government relocated)
Preceded by	National Assembly
Leadership
President	Han Kuo-yu (KMT) since 1 February 2024
Vice President	Johnny Chiang (KMT) since 1 February 2024
Caucus Leaders	Fu Kun-chi (KMT) Ker Chien-ming (DPP) Huang Kuo-chang (TPP) since 1 February 2024
Secretary General	Chester W. L. Chou (Independent) since 5 February 2024
Structure
Seats	113[a]
Political groups	In Government (Minority)   DPP (51) Opposition (Majority) KMT Caucus (54)   KMT (52)   Independent (2)   TPP (8)
Length of term	4 years
Elections
Voting system	Parallel voting: 73 seats by FPTP 34 seats by party-list PR using largest remainder method with Hare quota 6 seats by SNTV
Last election	13 January 2024
Meeting place
The Legislative Yuan Building, No. 1, Zhongshan South Road Zhongzheng District, Taipei City, Republic of China
Website
www.ly.gov.tw (in English)
Constitution
Additional Articles and the original Constitution of the Republic of China

How it works

Legislators are elected to office through the following ways:

• 73 are elected under the first-past-the-post system in single-member constituencies.
• 34 are elected under the supplementary member system on a second ballot, based on nationwide votes, and calculated using the largest remainder method by the Hare quota.^[4] Any party which receives 5% or more of the Party vote can enter the parliament. For each party, at least half of the legislators elected under this system must be female.
• 6 seats are elected by indigenous peoples voters through single non-transferable vote in two three-member constituencies.

Notes

1. Number of seats in the amended constitution. The number of seats in the original constitution was 759.