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1954 Taiwanese presidential election
Presidential election
Turnout 53.19%
Indirect presidential elections were held in the
Republic of China on March 22, 1954 to elect the
President and
Vice President . The vote took place at the
Chung-Shan Hall in
Taipei . Incumbent President
Chiang Kai-shek was re-elected for the second term. The
premier
Chen Cheng was elected to be the Vice-President. These were the first elections that took place since the fall of the
mainland to the
Chinese Communist Party in 1949.
Electors
The election was conducted by the
National Assembly in its meeting place
Chung-Shan Hall in
Taipei . According to the
Temporary Provisions against the Communist Rebellion , the term of the delegates who were elected during the
1947 Chinese National Assembly election was extended indefinitely until "re-election is possible in their original
electoral district ". In total, there were 1,578 delegates reported to the secretariat to attend this second session of the first National Assembly.
[1]
The
1947 National Assembly election elected 2,961 delegates for the 3,045 seats of the
National Assembly . About half of them did not
flee to
Taiwan with the
government . The 1,578 delegates reported to this session barely passed the 50% requirement (1,523) of the National Assembly to hold a valid meeting.
Results
President
Vice-president
See also
References
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第一屆國民大會第二次會議實錄 [
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b Christian Schafferer (2003) The Power of the Ballot Box: Political Development and Election Campaigning in Taiwan