2020 Taiwan presidential election facts for kids

Quick facts for kids
2020 Taiwanese presidential election

← 2016 11 January 2020 (2020-01-11) 2024 →
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 2020 Taiwanese presidential election was an important event in Taiwan. It happened on January 11, 2020. People voted to choose their next President and Vice President.

The current President, Tsai Ing-wen from the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), won the election again. She was first elected in 2016. She started her new term on May 20, 2020.

Candidates for President

In an election, a "nominee" is the person a political party officially chooses to run for a position. Here are the main candidates who ran for President and Vice President in 2020.

Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)

The Democratic Progressive Party is one of the major political parties in Taiwan.

DPP 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)

Kuomintang (KMT)

The Kuomintang is another major political party in Taiwan.

KMT 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)

People First Party (PFP)

The People First Party is a smaller political party in Taiwan.

PFP 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 Candidates

Some other people also planned to run but later decided not to. These included:

• Chang San-cheng, who was a Premier of the Republic of China in 2016.
• Yang Shih-kuang, a television presenter.
• Annette Lu, who was the Vice President of the Republic of China from 2000 to 2008.

Opinion Polls

Opinion polls are surveys that ask people who they plan to vote for. They help show which candidates are popular before an election. The chart below shows how the support for the main candidates changed over time.

This chart shows how popular each candidate was in the months leading up to the 2020 election.

Images for kids

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  William Lai, who ran for Vice President with Tsai Ing-wen.

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  Terry Gou, a businessman who sought the KMT nomination.

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  Eric Chu, a former Mayor of New Taipei, who sought the KMT nomination.

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  Chou Hsi-wei, a former Magistrate of Taipei County.

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  Chang Ya-chung, a professor at National Taiwan University.

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  Wang Jin-pyng, a long-time member of the Legislative Yuan.

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  Lo Chih-chiang, a Taipei City Councillor.

See also

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