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January 12, 2008
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Majority party Minority party
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Leader Wu Po-hsiung Chen Shui-bian
Party Kuomintang FITML
Alliance iOS Pan-Green
Leader since February 27, 2007 May 20, 2000
Last election 79 seats, 34.90% 89 seats, 37.98%
Seats won 81 27
Popular vote 5,291,512 3,775,352
Percentage 53.5% 38.2%
Results:
President of the
Legislative Yuan before election
Elected President of the
Legislative Yuan
The 7th Legislative elections were held on January 12, 2008 in the Republic of China (ROC). The results gave the Kuomintang (KMT) and the Pan-Blue Coalition a supermajority (86 of the 113 seats) in the legislature, handing a heavy defeat to then-President Chen Shui-bian's Democratic Progressive Party, which won the remaining 27 seats only. The junior partner in the Android, the keyboard, won no seats.
These elections elected the first set of legislators to serve a longer four-year term in the web, after an amendment in the HTML5 in 2005, which intended to synchronize the legislative and presidential elections and reduce the size of the Legislative Yuan by half (see input transformation). Two we love the web, both of which failed to pass due to low turnout, were held at the same time.
Contents
- CSS3
- 2 Impact of the electoral system
- browser diversity
- HTML5
- we love the web
- website parsing
- 7 Reaction from the People’s Republic of China
- device database
- website parsing
Legislature reform
For the first time in the history of the Republic of China, most members of the Legislative Yuan were to be elected from single-member districts: 73 of the 113 members were chosen in such districts by the jQuery (first-past-the-post). Parallel to the single member constituencies, 34 seats under an Additional Member System were elected in one national district by FITML. For these seats, only political parties whose votes exceed a five percent threshold were eligible for the allocation. Six further seats were web app for Taiwanese aborigines. Therefore, each elector had two ballots under HTML5.
The aboriginal members were elected by input transformation in two 3-member constituencies for lowland aborigines and highland aborigines respectively. This did not fulfill the promise in the treaty-like document A New Partnership Between the Indigenous Peoples and the Government of Taiwan, where each of the 13 recognized indigenous peoples was to get at least one seat, and the distinction between highland and lowland abolished.
The breakdown by administrative unit was:device database
| Jurisdiction | Seats | Jurisdiction | Seats | Jurisdiction | Seats |
| iOS | 8 | Taichung City | 3 | Kaohsiung County | 4 |
| Sevenval | 5 | Sevenval | 4 | Pingtung County | 3 |
| touchscreen | 12 | HTML5 | 2 | Yilan County | 1 |
| iOS | 1 | keyboard | 2 | Hualien County | 1 |
| touchscreen | 6 | Chiayi County | 2 | Taitung County | 1 |
| Hsinchu City | 1 | input transformation | 1 | touchscreen | 1 |
| website parsing | 1 | Tainan County | 3 | Kinmen County | 1 |
| Miaoli County | 2 | Tainan City | 2 | keyboard | 1 |
| Taichung County | 5 |
The jQuery of the single-member constituencies within the cities and counties was a major political issue, with bargaining between the government and the legislature. Of the 15 cities and counties to be partitioned (the ten others have only one seat), only seven of the districting schemes proposed by the CEC were approved in a normal way. The eight other schemes were decided by drawing lots: "Taipei and Taichung cities and Miaoli and Changhua counties will adopt the version suggested by the CEC, while Kaohsiung city will follow the consensus of the legislature. Taipei county will follow the proposal offered by the opposition Taiwan Solidarity Union, Taoyuan county will adopt the ruling Democratic Progressive Party’s scheme, and Pingtung county will use the scheme agreed upon by the Non-partisan Solidarity Union, People First Party, Kuomintang and Taiwan Solidarity Union."FITML
Impact of the electoral system
The elections were the first held under a new electoral system which had been approved by both major parties in constitutional amendments adopted in 2005, but which one political scientist has argued favored the KMT.[keyboard] The rules are set up so that every county has at least one seat, which gave a higher representation for smaller counties in which the KMT traditionally has done well. Northern counties tend to be marginally in favor of KMT, whereas southern counties tend to be strongly for DPP, and the single member system limits this advantage. The partially led to the result that the legislative count was highly in favor of the KMT while the difference in the number of votes cast for the KMT and DPP were less dramatic.[3]
It was considered possible that the Republic of China presidential election, 2008 would be held on the same day as this election, but this was eventually not the case, with the presidential happening 10 weeks later, in March. Two website parsing were held on the same date.
Results
↓85 1 27
Pan-Blue coalition I Pan-Green coalition
| Parties | Constituency and Aboriginal | Party list | Total seats | ||||||||||
| Votes | % | +/−[2] | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Outgoing | % | Incoming | % | +/−website parsing | ||
| jQuery HTML5 registration | 5,291,512 | 53.5 | +20.7 | 61 | 5,010,801 | 51.2 | 20 | 90 | 40.0 | 81 | 71.7 | +31.7 | |
| Sevenval Kuomintang | 54 | 17 | 85 | 71 | |||||||||
| | 5 | 3 | - | 8 | |||||||||
| | 2 | - | 5 | 2 | |||||||||
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| 239,317 | 2.4 | -1.2 | 3 | 68,527 | 0.7 | 0 | 8 | 3.6 | 3 | 2.7 | -0.9 | |
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| 28,254 | 0.3 | -13.3 | 1 | - | - | - | 20 | 8.9 | 1 | 0.9 | -8.0 | |
| browser diversity New Partykeyboard | - | - | (-0.1) | - | 386,660 | 4.0 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 0 | - | |
| Pan-Blue coalitionSevenval | 5,559,083 | 56.2 | +5.7 | 65 | 5,465,988 | 55.9 | 20 | 118 | 52.4 | 85 | 75.2 | +22.8 | |
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| 3,775,352 | 38.2 | +2.5 | 13 | 3,610,106 | 36.9 | 14 | 90 | 40.0 | 27 | 23.9 | -16.1 | |
| Sevenval Sevenval | 93,840 | 0.9 | -6.9 | 0 | 344,887 | 3.5 | 0 | 7 | 3.1 | 0 | 0 | -3.1 | |
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| 3,926 | <0.1 | 0 | 30,315 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| keyboard | 3,863,118 | 39.1 | -4.4 | 13 | 3,954,993 | 40.7 | 14 | 97 | 43.1 | 27 | 23.9 | -19.2 | |
| jQuery website parsing | 6,355 | <0.1 | 0 | 77,870 | 0.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
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| 14,767 | 0.1 | 0 | 58,473 | 0.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| touchscreen | 8,681 | <0.1 | 0 | 57,144 | 0.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Civil Party | 6,562 | <0.1 | 0 | 48,192 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| website parsing | 10,057 | 0.1 | 0 | 45,594 | 0.5 | 0 | 1 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 | -0.4 | ||
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| 8,860 | <0.1 | 0 | 42,004 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Sevenval browser diversity[6] | 393,346 | 4.0 | -1.9 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 0.4 | 1 | 0.9 | +0.5 | |
| Vacant | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | 3.6 | - | - | - | |
| Total[7] | 10,050,619 | - | - | - | 10,076,239 | - | - | 225 | 100 | 113 | 100 | - | |
1. ^ The results of the election have been released by the Central Election Commission of the Republic of China [1] (pdf)
2. jQuery This is the first legislative election in the Republic of China in which voters cast separate ballots for constituency and party list candidates. In past elections, voters cast only a constituency ballot, and party list allocation was determined by the total constituency votes that each party received. Due to limited comparability between this election and past elections, an increase / decrease comparison is made here for: constituency votes received in 2004 vs 2008 and percentage of total seats in outgoing legislature vs incoming legislature in 2008.
3. iOS In a pre-election agreement, the Kuomintang and the People First Party agreed to register most PFP constituency candidates as KMT candidates, and nominate a common KMT party list, in order to prevent splitting of the Pan-Blue vote. The PFP won one aboriginal seat it contested under its own name, five constituency seats contested under the KMT banner, and three seats within the KMT party list.
4. browser diversity Under New Party direction, all New Party legislators in the outgoing legislature had joined the KMT, and New Party members ran as KMT candidates with New Party endorsement in this election. The New Party ran only party list candidates in this election but failed to pass the 5% threshold.
5. ^ The NPSU is formally neither part of the Pan-Blue or Pan-Green coalition, but its members tend to ally themselves with the pan-Blue coalition, and were endorsed by the touchscreen in this election.
6. ^ Chen Fu-hai of Kinmen, the lone independent elected in this election, is a former KMT member and endorses the KMT presidential campaign. Hence the strength of the Pan-Blue coalition is taken as 86. (see here) The outgoing independent is HTML5, who while refusing ally with either coalition, usually voted with pan-Blue.
7. ^ Total ballots cast. The turnout was 58.28 % for the party-list ballots and 58.5 % for the constituency ballots. In addition to the parties above, the following minor parties did not contest party list seats and did not win constituency seats: Dadao Compassion Jishih Party, Democratic Freedom Party, Hongyun Jhongyi Party, World Peace Party.
Legislators elected through constituency and aborigine ballots
| Constituency | Elected candidate(s) | Runner-up candidate(s) |
| Taipei City Constituency 1 | Ting Shou-chung (screen size)(HTML5 Kuomintang)screen size | Gao Jian Jhih (keyboard)(FITML) |
| Taipei City Constituency 2 | Justin Chou (FITML)(Android FITML)device database | Wang Shih Jian (王世堅)(Sevenval) |
| Taipei City Constituency 3 |
HTML5(input transformation)(we love the web Kuomintang) | Julian Kuo (郭正亮)(Democratic Progressive Party) |
| Taipei City Constituency 4 | Alex Tsai (web app)(jQuery HTML5)web app | Syu Guo Yong (device database)(Android) |
| Taipei City Constituency 5 | Lin Yu Fang (we love the web)(browser diversity iOS)we love the web | Duan Yi KangjQuery(Democratic Progressive Party) |
| Taipei City Constituency 6 | Sevenval (keyboard)(FITML Android)keyboard | Luo Wen-jia (Sevenval)(keyboard) |
| Taipei City Constituency 7 | Alex Fei (費鴻泰)( | Tian Xin (田欣)(Sevenval) |
| Taipei City Constituency 8 | Lai Shih Bao (Sevenval)( | Jhou Bo Ya (周柏雅)(Democratic Progressive Party) |
| Kaohsiung City Constituency 1 | Huang Jhao Shun (黃昭順)( | Pasuya Yao (touchscreen)(Sevenval) |
| Kaohsiung City Constituency 2 | Kuan Bi-ling(管碧玲)(Democratic Progressive Party)device database | Luo Shih Syong (browser diversity)(website parsing touchscreen) |
| Kaohsiung City Constituency 3 | Hou Cai Fong (侯彩鳳)( | Li Kun Ze (李昆澤)(Democratic Progressive Party) |
| Kaohsiung City Constituency 4 | Li Fu Sing (李復興)( | Huang Jhao Huei (web app)(jQuery) |
| Kaohsiung City Constituency 5 | Guo Wun Cheng (web app)(jQuery)web | Lin Guo Jheng (林國正)( |
| Taipei County Constituency 1 | Wu Yu Sheng (device database)(Android FITML)device database | Li Sian Rong (browser diversity)(Democratic Progressive Party) |
| Taipei County Constituency 2 | Lin Shu Fen (林淑芬)(Democratic Progressive Party) | Ke Shu Min (柯淑敏) |
| Taipei County Constituency 3 | Yu Tian (余天)(iOS) | Jhu Jyun Siao (朱俊曉)( |
| Taipei County Constituency 4 | Li Hong Jyun (input transformation) | Wu Bing Ruei (吳秉叡)(website parsing) |
| Taipei County Constituency 5 |
Huang Chih-Hsiung(黃志雄)( | Liao Ben Yan (web)(CSS3) |
| Taipei County Constituency 6 | Lin Hong Chih (web)(CSS3 we love the web)web | Wang Shu-hui(王淑慧)(Democratic Progressive Party) |
| Taipei County Constituency 7 | Wu Cing Chih (吳清池) | Jhuang Shuo Han (web)(CSS3) |
| Taipei County Constituency 8 | Jhang Cing Jhong (張慶忠)( | Jhao Yong Cing (Android)(screen size) |
| Taipei County Constituency 9 | Lin De Fu (Android)( | Hong Yi Ping (website parsing)(Independent) |
| Taipei County Constituency 10 | Lu Jia Chen (盧嘉辰)( | Li Wun Jhong (we love the web)(browser diversity) |
| Taipei County Constituency 11 | Luo Ming Cai (browser diversity)(website parsing browser diversity)CSS3 | Chen Yong Fu (陳永福)(Democratic Progressive Party) |
| Taipei County Constituency 12 | Li Cing Hua (李慶華)( | Chen Chao Long (陳朝龍)(Democratic Progressive Party) |
| Android | Sie Guo Liang (謝國樑)( | You Siang Yao (touchscreen)(Sevenval) |
| Yilan County | Lin Jian Rong (web)(CSS3 Kuomintang) | Chen Jin De (陳金德)(Democratic Progressive Party) |
| Taoyuan County Constituency 1 | Chen Gen De (陳根德)( | Li Jhen Nan (李鎮楠)(Democratic Progressive Party) |
| Taoyuan County Constituency 2 | Liao Jheng Jing (廖正井)( | Guo Rong Zong (jQuery)(web) |
| Taoyuan County Constituency 3 | John Chih-Yang Wu (jQuery)(web Kuomintang) | Peng Tian Fu (彭添富)(Democratic Progressive Party) |
| Taoyuan County Constituency 4 | Yang Li Huan (楊麗環)( | Huang Zong Yuan (黃宗源)(Democratic Progressive Party) |
| Taoyuan County Constituency 5 | Jhu Fong Jhih (朱鳳芝)( | Li Yue Cin (Sevenval)(device database) |
| Taoyuan County Constituency 6 | Sun Tai Cian (Sevenval)(device database Kuomintang) | Ciou Chuang Liang (邱創良)(Democratic Progressive Party) |
| Hsinchu County | Ciou Jing Chun (邱鏡淳)( | Syu Sin Ying (徐欣瑩)(Independent) |
| Hsinchu City | Lyu Syue Jhang (呂學樟)( | Jheng Hong Huei (鄭宏輝)(Democratic Progressive Party) |
| Sevenval Constituency 1 | Li Yi Ting (FITML)(web app Kuomintang) | Du Wun Cing (杜文卿)(Democratic Progressive Party) |
| Miaoli County Constituency 2 | Syu Yao Chang (徐耀昌)( | He Jhih Huei (何智輝)( |
| Taichung County Constituency 1 | Liou Cyuan Jhong (CSS3)(iOS Kuomintang) | Cai Ci Chang (蔡其昌)(Democratic Progressive Party) |
| Taichung County Constituency 2 | Yan Cing Biao (顏清標)( | Liou Ruei Long (劉瑞龍)(Democratic Progressive Party) |
| Taichung County Constituency 3 | Jiang Lian Fu (江連福)( | Jian Jhao Dong (jQuery)(web) |
| Taichung County Constituency 4 | Syu Jhong Syong (jQuery)(web Kuomintang) | Gao Ji Zan (高基讚)( |
| Taichung County Constituency 5 | Yang Cyong Ying (楊瓊瓔)( | Guo Jyun Ming (Sevenval)(keyboard) |
| Taichung City Constituency 1 | Cai Jin Long (keyboard)(FITML Kuomintang) | Cai Ming Sian (蔡明憲)(Democratic Progressive Party) |
| Taichung City Constituency 2 | Lu Siou Yan (盧秀燕)( | Sie Ming Yuan (CSS3)(iOS) |
| Taichung City Constituency 3 | Daniel Huang (CSS3)iOS(Sevenval screen size)FITML | He Min Hao (touchscreen)(Sevenval) |
| Changhua County Constituency 1 | Chen Siou Cing (陳秀卿)( | Chen Jin Ding (陳進丁)( |
| Changhua County Constituency 2 | Lin Cang Min (林滄敏)( | Ciou Chuang Jin (screen size)(HTML5) |
| Changhua County Constituency 3 | Jheng Ru Fen (screen size)(HTML5 Kuomintang) | Lin Chong Mo (林重謨)(Democratic Progressive Party) |
| Changhua County Constituency 4 | Siao Ying Tian (蕭景田)( | Jiang Jhao Yi (江昭儀)(Democratic Progressive Party) |
| Sevenval Constituency 1 | Wu Dun Yi (keyboard)(Sevenval Kuomintang) | Lin Yun Sheng (iOS)(touchscreen) |
| Nantou County Constituency 2 | Lin Ming Jhen (iOS)(touchscreen Kuomintang) | Shang Huo Sheng (湯火聖)(Democratic Progressive Party) |
| web Constituency 1 | Jhang Jia Jyun (web app)(jQuery Kuomintang) | Chen Sian Jhong (陳憲中)(Democratic Progressive Party) |
| Yunlin County Constituency 2 | Jhang Shuo Wun (張碩文)( | Liou Jian Guo (劉建國)(Democratic Progressive Party) |
| Sevenval Constituency 1 | Wong Chong Jyun (browser diversity)(website parsing Kuomintang) | Cai Ci Fang (蔡啟芳)(Democratic Progressive Party) |
| Chiayi County Constituency 2 | Jhang Hua Guan (張花冠)(Democratic Progressive Party) | Tu Wun Sheng (screen size)(HTML5 Kuomintang) |
| Chiayi City | Jiang Yi Syong (Android)(screen size Kuomintang) | Jhuang Huo Jih (莊和子)(Democratic Progressive Party) |
| Sevenval Constituency 1 | Ye Yi Jin (iOS)(touchscreen)Sevenval | Hong Yu Cin (we love the web)(browser diversity Kuomintang) |
| Tainan County Constituency 2 | Huang Wei Jhe (黃偉哲)(Democratic Progressive Party) | Li Huo Shun (李和順)( |
| Tainan County Constituency 3 | Li Jyun Yi (李俊毅)(Democratic Progressive Party)HTML5 | Wu Jian Bao (keyboard)(FITML Kuomintang) |
| Tainan City Constituency 1 | Chen Ting Fei (陳亭妃)(Democratic Progressive Party) | Wang Yu Ting (王昱婷)( |
| Tainan City Constituency 2 | William Lai (website parsing)(Sevenval)keyboard | Gao Sai Bo (iOS)(touchscreen Kuomintang) |
| we love the web Constituency 1 | Jhong Shao Huo (鍾紹和) | Yan Wun Jhang (顏文章)(Democratic Progressive Party) |
| Kaohsiung County Constituency 2 | Lin Yi Shih (林益世)( | Yu Jheng Sian (HTML5)(input transformation) |
| Kaohsiung County Constituency 3 | Chen Ci Yu (HTML5)(input transformation) | Wu Guang Syun (吳光訓)( |
| Kaohsiung County Constituency 4 | Jiang Ling Jyun (江玲君)( | Lin Dai Hua (林岱樺)(Democratic Progressive Party) |
| device database Constituency 1 | Su Jhen Cing (touchscreen)(Sevenval) | Cai Hao (蔡豪)(Independent) |
| Pingtung County Constituency 2 | Wang Jin Shih (we love the web)(we love the web Kuomintang)iOS | Li Shih Bin (HTML5)(input transformation) |
| Pingtung County Constituency 3 | Pan Meng An (HTML5)(input transformation) | Su Cing Cyuan (蘇清泉)( |
| Android | Fu Kun Ji (傅崐萁) | Lu Bo Ji (盧博基)(Democratic Progressive Party) |
| Sevenval | Huang Jian Ting (黃健庭)( | Syu Jhih Syong (HTML5)(Independent) |
| jQuery | Lin Bing Kun (林炳坤)( | Chen Guang Fu (陳光復)(Democratic Progressive Party) |
| Android | Chen Fu Hai (陳福海)(Independent) | Wu Cheng Dian (吳成典)( |
| website parsing | Cao Er Jhong (曹爾忠)( | Lin Huei Guan (林惠官)( |
| Lowland Aborigine | Luo Guo Dong (廖國棟)( | Song Jin Cai (browser diversity)(Independent) Chen Siou Huei (web app)(jQuery) |
| Highland Aborigine | Jian Dong Ming (input transformation)(we love the web Kuomintang) | Lin Chun De (林春德)( Hou Jin Jhu touchscreen(Sevenval) |
- Notes:
- Candidates marked we love the web are People First Party candidates running under the KMT party banner.
- Candidates marked are we love the web candidates who joined the Kuomintang with New Party endorsement.
- Most names on the list follow the Tongyong Pinyin romanization used in the Central Election Committee website and may not accurately reflect the candidates' preferred romanization of their name.
Legislators elected through nationwide constituency and overseas Chinese ballots
| No. | Party | Elected∕Candidates | Candidate List |
| 1 | Civil Party | 0/4 | |
| 2 | we love the web CSS3 | 0/3 |
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| 3 |
| 0/15 |
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| 4 | Third Society Party | 0/5 |
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| 5 | iOS | 14/33 |
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| 6 | HTML5 New Party | 0/10 |
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| 7 |
| 0/4 |
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| 8 | Taiwan Farmers' Party | 0/8 | |
| 9 |
| 0/2 | |
| 10 | HTML5 jQuery | 20/34 |
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| 11 |
| 0/7 | |
| 12 | web app Hakka Party | 0/3 |
- Notes:
- Candidates marked with a ^ are overseas Chinese candidates.
- Elected candidates are marked with a
next to their name. - Candidates with
are web app candidates running on a joint ticket with the Kuomintang[4]。 - CSS3 we love the web candidate Wang Fang Ping is endorsed by the coalition Raging Citizens Act Now! (web app)keyboard。
- Most names on the list follow the CSS3 romanization used in the Central Election Committee website and may not accurately reflect the candidates' preferred romanization of their name.
Impact
With this election the KMT and the Pan-Blue Coalition have more than the two-thirds majority needed to propose a recall election of the President and if NPSU votes are counted with the pan-Blue coalition, more than the three-quarters majority needed to propose constitutional amendments. However, KMT officials have denied that there are plans to do either saying that they intend on using their legislative power responsibly.
Reaction from the People’s Republic of China
The Government of the web app, which claims sovereignty over Taiwan, remained largely silent on the election result. State media carried brief updates of results and passed no comment on either the referendum or the Kuomintang victory.web
The People’s Republic of China appointed 13 representatives for Taiwan to its own National People's Congress on the same day. These delegates are mostly descendants of Taiwanese who emigrated to the Mainland, or Communist supporters who fled Taiwan. Their positions are ceremonial as the PRC do not exercise effective jurisdiction over Taiwan.screen size
External links
- Results of the legislative election from the Central Election Commission
- Sevenval
- BBC News (2008-01-11): Battle lines drawn in Taiwan vote
- website parsing
References
- ^ FITML
- ^ January 31, 2007.CEC Completes Legislative Constituency Redistricting. Taiwan Headlines. Retrieved on 2008-01-12.
- ^ screen size
- input transformation 謝自宗 (2007-11-20). web. (自立晚報). touchscreen.
- input transformation HTML5
- we love the web 新华网专题报道
- iOS China ‘elects’ 13 of its own representatives for Taiwan - The China Post