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Turnout | 56.34% | |||||||||||||
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The 2015 Kuomintang chairmanship by-election ( Chinese: 2015年中國國民黨主席補選) was held on 17 January 2015 in Taiwan. This was the sixth direct election of the chairman in the Kuomintang history. All registered, due-paying KMT party members were eligible to vote.
The election was called after Ma Ying-jeou resigned from the Kuomintang chairmanship to take responsibility for the party's heavy losses during the local elections held on 29 November 2014. [1] Six KMT members, among them Clara Chou and Lee Hsin, attempted to register for the election, but five were rejected. [2] [3] Eric Chu, who had just been reelected Mayor of New Taipei in the November elections, [3] was the only officially confirmed candidate. [4]
Chu garnered 99.61% of all votes, [5] beating the previous record in 2001. [6]
Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |
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Eric Chu | Kuomintang | 196,065 | 100.00 | |
Total | 196,065 | 100.00 | ||
Valid votes | 196,065 | 99.61 | ||
Invalid/blank votes | 765 | 0.39 | ||
Total votes | 196,830 | 100.00 | ||
Registered voters/turnout | 349,374 | 56.34 | ||
Source: Apple Daily [6] |
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Turnout | 56.34% | |||||||||||||
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The 2015 Kuomintang chairmanship by-election ( Chinese: 2015年中國國民黨主席補選) was held on 17 January 2015 in Taiwan. This was the sixth direct election of the chairman in the Kuomintang history. All registered, due-paying KMT party members were eligible to vote.
The election was called after Ma Ying-jeou resigned from the Kuomintang chairmanship to take responsibility for the party's heavy losses during the local elections held on 29 November 2014. [1] Six KMT members, among them Clara Chou and Lee Hsin, attempted to register for the election, but five were rejected. [2] [3] Eric Chu, who had just been reelected Mayor of New Taipei in the November elections, [3] was the only officially confirmed candidate. [4]
Chu garnered 99.61% of all votes, [5] beating the previous record in 2001. [6]
Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |
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Eric Chu | Kuomintang | 196,065 | 100.00 | |
Total | 196,065 | 100.00 | ||
Valid votes | 196,065 | 99.61 | ||
Invalid/blank votes | 765 | 0.39 | ||
Total votes | 196,830 | 100.00 | ||
Registered voters/turnout | 349,374 | 56.34 | ||
Source: Apple Daily [6] |