Country: | Taiwan |
Type: | legislative |
Previous Election: | 1989 Taiwanese legislative election |
Previous Year: | 1989 |
Next Election: | 1995 Taiwanese legislative election |
Next Year: | 1995 |
Seats For Election: | All 162 seats in the Legislative Yuan |
Majority Seats: | 82 |
Turnout: | 72.02% |
Election Date: | 19 December 1992 |
Image1: | President Lee teng hui (cropped).png |
Leader1: | Lee Teng-hui |
Party1: | Kuomintang |
Seats1: | 102 |
Seat Change1: | 1 |
Popular Vote1: | 5,030,725 |
Percentage1: | 53.02% |
Leader2: | Hsu Hsin-liang |
Party2: | Democratic Progressive Party |
Seats2: | 51 |
Seat Change2: | 30 |
Popular Vote2: | 2,944,195 |
Percentage2: | 31.03% |
President | |
Before Election: | Liang Su-yung |
Before Party: | Kuomintang |
After Election: | Liu Sung-pan |
After Party: | Kuomintang |
Map2 Image: | 1992ROCLY-cartogram.svg |
Map2 Caption: | Elected member party by seat |
Legislative elections were held in Taiwan on 19 December 1992.[1] [2]
The Constitution of the Republic of China took effect on December 25, 1947 (36th year of the Republic) and held its first parliamentary election in 1948. Amidst the backdrop of the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang nationalist government and the Chinese Communist Party, the National Assembly invoked article 174 of the constitution and implemented the Temporary Provisions against the Communist Rebellion. After the mainland fell to the Communists, the central government retreated to Taiwan thus holding another nationwide elections would be too difficult in the Communist-held areas.
As democratization began in the late 1980s, the government repealed the Temporary Provisions and introduced the Additional Articles of the Constitution of the Republic of China, allowing the electorates residing in the free area to directly elect the president and the complete re-election of the Legislative Yuan.
The result was a victory for the KMT, which won 95 of the 161 seats. Voter turnout was 72.0%.