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Understand who leads each country—and how they came to power.

Explore national election results and current leaders around the world. Find presidents, prime ministers and heads of state, compare parliamentary seats won by political parties, and check when the next elections are expected. Choose a country to see its leadership portraits, election charts and links to official sources.

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Taiwan

Leadership

Portrait of Lai Ching-te
Lai Ching-te
President
總統府 · Cropped · Photo source · Attribution
Portrait of Cho Jung-tai
Cho Jung-tai
Premier
外交部 · Cropped · Photo source · Attribution

Lai Ching-te is president and Cho Jung-tai is premier. Legislative seats and the separately elected presidency are different contests. Profile source

National government

The January 2024 Legislative Yuan election returned 52 Kuomintang members, 51 Democratic Progressive Party members, eight Taiwan People’s Party members and two independents. No party won a majority. The next regular legislative election is expected in 2028; an exact date is not confirmed here. Central Election Commission results

TAIWAN · ELECTIONS & REPRESENTATION

Votes, seats & parliament

Dated source snapshot

Explore Taiwan’s recorded parliamentary results and how each chamber is selected. Leadership portraits appear above; the charts below show seats reported in the linked election records.

Chambers recorded11 not marked suspended in this source
Directly elected1Other chambers may use a different selection method
Results coverage1 / 1Chambers with a party-seat breakdown

These are dated election records, not live chamber membership. By-elections, vacancies, appointments and changes of party may alter the current composition. A seat total can cover only the seats allocated in that result; it does not automatically represent the full statutory chamber.

Directly elected

Legislative Yuan

Recorded selection · 13 January 2024

113seats shown
Kuomintang (KMT)52
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)51
Taiwan People’s Party (TPP)8
Independents2

Each seat icon represents one reported seat. Colours distinguish parties within this chart; the arc is a visual grouping, not a seating plan.

Largest allocation in this resultKuomintang (KMT)52 of 113 reported seats. This alone does not identify a governing coalition.

Next recorded renewal projectionTiming not confirmed in this snapshot
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Regional election maps require separately verified geographic results. National seat totals are shown here without inferring regional winners.

Inter-Parliamentary Union: Parliamentary elections, November 2026. Terms of use · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

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