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2020 Taiwanese presidential election

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Registered	19,311,105
Turnout	74.9% 8.6 pp
Nominee Tsai Ing-wen Han Kuo-yu James Soong Party DPP Kuomintang People First Running mate William Lai Chang San-cheng Sandra Yu Popular vote 8,170,231 5,522,119 608,590 Percentage 57.1% 38.6% 4.3%
Leading candidates and vote share by administrative division
President before election Tsai Ing-wen DPP Elected President Tsai Ing-wen DPP

The 15th President and Vice President election of the Republic of China (Chinese: 中華民國第十五屆總統、副總統選舉) took place in Taiwan on 11 January 2020. Voters re-elected President and Vice President.

The process of presidential primary elections and nominations were held during the last six months of 2019.

Current President Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), who was elected in 2016, won re-election. She is scheduled to be inaugurated on 20 May 2020.

Candidates

Democratic Progressive Party

Nominees

2020 Democratic Progressive ticket
Tsai Ing-wen	William Lai
for President	for Vice President
President of the Republic of China (2016–present)	Premier of the Republic of China (2017–2019)

Candidates

William Lai
President of the Executive Yuan (2017–2019)
LN: June 13, 2019

Kuomintang

Nominees

2020 Kuomintang ticket
Han Kuo-yu	Chang San-cheng
for President	for Vice President
Mayor of Kaohsiung (2018–present)	Premier of the Republic of China (2016)

Candidates

Terry Gou	Eric Chu	Chou Hsi-wei	Chang Ya-chung	Wang Jin-pyng	Lo Chih-chiang
Founder and Former Chairman of Foxconn	Mayor of New Taipei (2010–2018)	Magistrate of Taipei County (2005–2010)	National Taiwan University Professor	Member of the Legislative Yuan (1976–present)	Taipei City Councillor (2018–present)
LN: July 15, 2019	LN: July 15, 2019	LN: July 15, 2019	LN: July 15, 2019	W: June 6, 2019	W: April 7, 2019

People First Party

Nominees

2020 People First ticket
James Soong	Sandra Yu
for President	for Vice President
Governor of Taiwan (1994–1998)	United Communications Group chairwoman (2009–2018)

Other parties and independents

Withdrawn candidates

• Chang San-cheng, President of the Executive Yuan (2016)
• Yang Shih-kuang, Television presenter and New Party Youth Corps leader
• Annette Lu, Vice President of the Republic of China (2000–2008)

Polling

Opinion pollings of the 2020 Taiwanese presidential election between Tsai Ing-wen, Han Kuo-yu and James Soong.

See also

In Spanish: Elecciones presidenciales de la República de China de 2020 para niños