Taiwan’s second wave of recall voting for legislators is set to take place on August 23. The Central Election Commission (CEC) announced today, August 19, the number of eligible voters and the number of voters for the 7th recall case of the 11th Legislative Yuan, as well as the voting requirements and thresholds for each constituency.
On August 23, the recall vote for Kuomintang legislators Lo Ming-tsai, Johnny Chiang, Yang Chiung-ying, Yen Kuan-heng, Lin Szu-ming, Ma Wen-chun, and Yu Hau-case will be held simultaneously with a nationwide referendum on the reopening of Taiwan’s Fourth Nuclear Power Plant. Prior to this, the CEC had published the reasons and defense statements for the recall of the 7 legislators. In addition, briefing sessions on the legislative recalls were held in Nantou County, New Taipei City, Taichung City, and Hsinchu County.
According to the Republic of China (Taiwan) CEC’s press release today, a nationwide referendum and the 7th recall case for the 11th Legislative Yuan will take place on August 23. Each municipality and county’s election commission has announced the number of eligible voters for the nationwide referendum today. The number of voters for the 7th recall case of the 11th Legislative Yuan has also been made public by respective election commissions.
After summarizing the results, the total number of eligible voters for the nationwide referendum stands at 22,091,000, and the number of voters for the 7th recall case of the 11th Legislative Yuan is 1,694,562.
The Taiwan CEC stated that according to Article 90 of the Public Officials Election and Recall Act, a recall vote is deemed passed when the number of valid affirmative votes exceeds the number of negative votes, and the affirmative votes make up more than 25% of the total number of original electorate in the district. Conversely, if the number of negative votes exceeds the affirmative votes or the affirmative votes do not reach 25% of the original electorate, the recall is rejected.
The Taiwan CEC disclosed the voting details for the recall cases of specific legislators: in New Taipei City’s 11th electoral district, the recall vote for Lo Ming-tsai had 299,652 voters, with a 25% threshold of 74,913. In Taichung City’s 2nd electoral district, the recall vote for Yen Kuan-heng had 307,742 voters, with a 25% threshold of 76,936; in Taichung City’s 3rd electoral district, the recall vote for Yang Chiung-ying had 26599 voters, with a 25% threshold of 65,150; in Taichung City’s 8th electoral district, the recall vote for Johnny Chiang had 208,849 voters, with a 25% threshold of 52,213.
In Hsinchu County’s 2nd electoral district, the recall vote for Lin Szu-ming had 238,499 voters, with a 25% threshold of 59,625. In Nantou County’s 1st electoral district, the recall vote for Ma Wen-chun had 184,153 voters, with a 25% threshold of 46,039; and in Nantou County’s 2nd electoral district, the recall vote for Yu Hau had 195,068 voters, with a 25% threshold of 48,767.
The CEC mentioned that all 7 recall cases for district legislators focus on recall voting for district legislative members. Therefore, the Indigenous residents within the original electoral district of the recalled person are not counted in the number of voters for the district legislative recall case.