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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 appropriate 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 Assemblyman to first term Provincial Assemblyman. 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 tenth term Taiwan Provincial Assemblymen ended on December
20, 1998 and thus this election was no longer held. According to the above-mentioned legislation, the

provincial council was abolished commencing on December 21, 1998 and the Provincial Consultative
Council was then established.

3. Elections of Taiwan Provincial Governor

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
governors, respectively, thus establishing a legal basis for the popular election of governors, for

which purpose accordingly the "Civil Servants Election and Recall Act" was amended. In December
1994, the first term Governor for Taiwan Province was elected. However, according to 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, 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 6 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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