National Assembly elections were held in the Republic of China on 23 March 1996, the first direct presidential election was also held on the same day.^[1] The result was a victory for the Kuomintang, which won 183 of the 334 seats. Voter turnout was 76.2%.

Results


Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Kuomintang	5,180,829	49.68	183	–71
	Democratic Progressive Party	3,121,423	29.93	99	+33
	New Party	1,417,209	13.59	46	New
	Green Party Taiwan	113,942	1.09	0	New
	Taiwan Indigenous Party	7,458	0.07	0	New
	Chinese Youth Party	6,197	0.06	0	0
	Labor Party	4,340	0.04	0	0
	Modern Progressive Party	4,029	0.04	0	New
	Independents	572,961	5.49	6	+4
Total		10,428,388	100.00	334	+9

Valid votes		10,428,388	96.84
Invalid/blank votes		340,836	3.16
Total votes		10,769,224	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		14,130,084	76.21
Source: Nohlen et al.

References

^ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p535 ISBN 0-19-924959-8

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