Legislative Yuan

Legislative Yuan of
the Republic of China

中華民國立法院
Legislative Yuan of; the Republic of China ; 中華民國立法院
11th Legislative Yuan
Type
Type	UnicameralLower house; (1947–2005)
History
Founded	5 December 1928; 97 years ago; (pre-constitution); 18 May 1948; 78 years ago; (1947 Constitution); 24 February 1950; 76 years ago; (Taiwan); 7 June 2005; 21 years ago; (current form);
Disbanded	1 October 1949; 77 years ago; (mainland); 7 December 1949; 76 years ago; (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
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

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.

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. 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.

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

↑ "Concise History". Legislative Yuan. 23 July 2013. Archived from the original on 18 October 2017. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
↑ 立法院全球資訊網－認識立法院－簡史. www.ly.gov.tw (in Chinese). 23 July 2013. Archived from the original on 29 October 2017. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
↑ 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
↑ 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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