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.[1]

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.[2] 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.

References
  1. 司法院釋字第76號解釋, Judicial Yuan interpretation number 76 (English translation) Archived 2019-01-05 at the Wayback Machine
  2. 公職人員選舉罷免法-全國法規資料庫入口網站. law.moj.gov.tw (in Chinese). Retrieved 27 August 2017.



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