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2. Elections of Taiwan Provincial Assemblymen
The Taiwan Provincial Assembly originated as the Provisional Provincial Assembly, with its con-
stituents elected from members of each city or county council in 1951 to represent their respective

city or county. For a given constituency (city or county), assemblymen were directly elected by the
citizens of the given city or county since the second term provisional assembly in 1954. The name was
changed to the Taiwan Provincial Assembly in June 1959. The title of the assembly elected that year

was changed from third-term Provisional Provincial Assemblymen to first-term Provincial Assembly-
men. According to the provisions of the Additional Articles of the Constitution of the ROC as amend-
ed and announced by order of the President in July 1997, the tenures of the tenth-term Taiwan
Provincial Assemblymen ended on December 20, 1998, and thus this election was no longer held.
According to the abovementioned legislation, the provincial council was abolished on December 21,

1998, and the Provincial Consultative Council was then established.

3. Elections of Taiwan Provincial Governors

The President promulgated the Self-Governance Act for Provinces and Counties in July 1994.
These laws specifically stipulate that citizens of the relevant provinces shall elect their provincial gov-
ernors, respectively, thus establishing a legal basis for the popular election of governors, for which
the Civil Servants Election and Recall Act was amended accordingly. In December 1994, the first-term

Governor for the Taiwan Province was elected. However, according to the relevant provisions of the
Additional Articles of the Constitution of the ROC, starting in July 1997, the election of the Taiwan
Provincial Governor was no longer held.

4. Elections of Taipei City, New Taipei City, Taoyuan City, Taichung City, Tainan
City, and Kaohsiung City Councilmen
In July 1967, Taipei City was changed into a special municipality under the direct jurisdiction of
the Executive Yuan. In July 1979, Kaohsiung City was changed into a special municipality also under

the direct jurisdiction of the Executive Yuan. On December 25, 2010, Taipei County was renamed
New Taipei City, and Kaohsiung County was merged with Kaohsiung City, which was already a
special municipality, Taichung County was merged with the provincial city of Taichung, and Tainan

County was merged with the provincial city of Tainan, while on December 25, 2014, Taoyuan County
was renamed Taoyuan City; all of these then became the six new special municipalities under the di-
rect jurisdiction of the Executive Yuan. Statistics on councilmen elections are shown in Table 2-3.

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