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2. Elections of Taiwan Provincial Assemblymen
The Taiwan Provincial Assembly originated as the Provisional Provincial Assembly, with its constituents

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 its respective citizens 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 Assemblymen. According to the provisions of the Additional Articles
of the Constitution of the ROC, as amended 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 abol-

ished 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. This
law specifically stipulates that citizens of the relevant provinces shall elect their respective provincial gov-

ernors, 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, Tain-
an 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, Taic-
hung 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 direct jurisdiction of the Executive Yuan.
Statistics on councilmen elections are shown in Table 2-3.

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