China Kuomintang chairmanship election 2017 live Voting Dates Opinion Exit Poll Candidates
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China Kuomintang chairmanship 2017 Results Voting Live Dates Opinion Exit Poll
China Kuomintang chairmanship Dates 2017
Kuomintang chairmanship election Date: 20 May 2017
The Kuomintang chairmanship election of 2017 (Chinese: 2017年中國國民黨主席補選) is scheduled to be held on 20 May 2017. This will be the seventh direct election of the party leader in Kuomintang history. All registered, due-paying KMT party members are eligible to vote.
China Kuomintang chairmanship Results Live 2017
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Electoral system of China
People's Congresses of cities that are not divided into districts (不设区的市), counties (县), city districts (市辖区), towns (镇),townships (乡), and lastly ethnic townships (民族乡), are directly elected.Additionally, village (村) committee members and chairpersons are directly elected. Local People's Congresses have the constitutional authority to recall the heads and deputy heads of government at the provincial level and below.
Candidates for Kuomintang chairmanship election 2017
Incumbent chairperson Hung Hsiu-chu was the first to declare her candidacy for the position. On 7 January 2017, Hau Lung-pin entered the race. Two days later, Wu Den-yih announced his bid for the chairmanship. On 12 January,Han Kuo-yu resigned his executive positions at Taipei Agricultural Products Marketing Corporation and entered the leadership election. Steve Chan launched his chairmanship campaign on 23 January. Tina Pan became the sixth candidate to enter the election on 23 February.
Figures released by the Kuomintang in January showed that, for the election, the eligible electorate included 226,783 party members, while total party membership numbered 887,861 people. By April, the electorate had risen to 451,510 people. Candidates must have collected the signatures of three percent of the Kuomintang membership by 15 April, an approximate minimum of 9,000 in 2017, to qualify for the election. Candidate registration is scheduled to open on 17 April.
China Parties and leaders
KMT Revolutionary Committee, Democratic League, Democratic National Construction Association, Association for Promoting Democracy, Peasants' and Workers' Democratic Party.
China Kuomintang chairmanship election Results
Candidate |
Total votes cast |
Percentage of vote |
Eric Chu |
196,065 |
99.61% |
Voter turnout |
56.34% |
Chu garnered 99.61% of all votes