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Presidential elections were held in Taiwan on 18 March 2000 to elect the president and vice president. With a voter turnout of 83%, Chen Shui-bian and Annette Lu of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) were elected president and vice president respectively with a slight plurality.
The Politics of Polling: An Analysis of Taiwan's 2000 Presidential Election. Presidential Election. Yeong-kuang Ger* 1. Introduction. On the eve of voting day, March 18, 2000, all three dates, the KMT's Lien Chan, the DPP's Chen Shui-bian, and inde- pendent candidate James Soong, held their campaign rallies.
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On March 23, 1996, Taiwan held the first direct presidential election in five thousand years of Chinese history and four hundred years of Taiwanese history. On March 18, 2000, the same Taiwan electorate, reinforced by about a million newly eligible young voters, held another historic vote.
Apr 1, 2000 · KMT Split Handed Chen the Presidential Victory. April 1, 2000. Canada Institute. North America. By Gang Lin On March 10, 2000, I went to Taiwan to observe the presidential election, together with a group of overseas Chinese political scientists. [1] During this trip, we visited pre-election campaign assemblies in Taipei organized by the ...
(March 19, 2000) Chen Shui-bian won with 39 percent of the vote in a bitter three-way race. The opposition's victory, the first transition of power in Taiwan's young democracy, was made...
Feb 17, 2019 · The March 18, 2000 presidential election marked a new era for Taiwan's political persona. For the first time, the KMT lost its dom-inance over the political scene in Taiwan. Remarkably, the win-ning party, DPP, has existed legitimately for about a decade. The KMT, the dominant party, has a well-structured organization and
The March 2000 presidential election was no exception to the rule. Chen Shui-bian garnered a mere 39% of popular vote. However, the division within the KMT camp and the vehement competition between Vice-President Lien Chan and former Tai-wan Governor James Soong split the party’s support. The result was Chen’s being elected with a plurality.
