Lowland Aborigine Constituency

{{Short description|Constituency of the Legislative Yuan of Taiwan}}

{{Infobox constituency

|name=Lowland Aborigine district

|type=Multi-member

|parl_name=Legislative Yuan

|image=

|caption=

|electorate = Taiwanese Plains Aborigines

|year=2008

|abolished=

|members_label=

|members=Huang Jen (2024–)
Sra Kacaw (2012–)
Chen Ying (2016–)

}}

The Lowland Aborigine constituency ({{zh|t=平地原住民選舉區|p=Píngdì Yuán Zhùmín Xuǎnjǔ Qū}}) is a multi-member constituency of the Legislative Yuan. Taiwanese indigenous people have elected representatives to reserved legislative seats since the 1970s.{{cite news |last1=Hale |first1=Erin |title='Always campaign time': Why Taiwan's indigenous people back KMT |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/01/campaign-time-taiwan-indigenous-people-kmt-200108054107733.html |accessdate=10 January 2020 |publisher=Al Jazeera |date=8 January 2020}} Predecessors to both the Lowland and Highland Aborigine districts were established in 1994.{{cite news|last1=Gerber|first1=Abraham|title=Campaigners pan empty Aboriginal legislative seats|url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2016/04/10/2003643622|accessdate=10 April 2016|work=Taipei Times|date=10 April 2016}} Since 2008 the Lowland Taiwanese indigenous elect three members to the Legislative Yuan. At its peak between 1998 and 2004, the constituency sent four members to the Legislative Yuan.

The district is dominated by the Amis ethnic group, with only one legislator (Chen Ying) ever elected from the Puyuma ethnic group.

Legislators

class=wikitable

! Election

! colspan=2 | Representative

! colspan=2 | Representative

! colspan=2 | Representative

! colspan=2 | Representative

1980

| bgcolor={{party color|Kuomintang}} |

| Lin Tung-hung (Amis)
Kuomintang

1983

| bgcolor={{party color|Kuomintang}} |

| Yang Chuan-kwang (Amis)
{{small|Maysang Kalimud}}
Kuomintang

1986

| bgcolor={{party color|Kuomintang}} rowspan=4 |

| rowspan=4 | Tsai Chung-han (Amis)
{{small|Safulo Kacaw Lalanges}}
Kuomintang

1989

| bgcolor={{party color|Kuomintang}} rowspan=3 |

| rowspan=3 | Chuang Chin-sheng (Amis)
Kuomintang

1992

| bgcolor={{party color|Kuomintang}} |

| Kao Wei-he (Amis)
{{small|Takapu}}
Kuomintang

1995

| bgcolor={{party color|Kuomintang}} rowspan=3 |

| rowspan=3 | Chang Jen-hsiang (Amis)
Kuomintang

1998

| bgcolor={{party color|Independent}} |

| Tsai Chung-han (Amis)
{{small|Safulo Kacaw Lalanges}}
20px Independent

| bgcolor={{party color|Kuomintang}} rowspan=4 |

| rowspan=4 | Yang Jen-fu (Amis)
Kuomintang

| bgcolor= {{party color|Kuomintang}} |

| Lin Cheng-er (Amis)
Kuomintang

2001

| bgcolor={{party color|Kuomintang}} rowspan=6 |

| rowspan=6 | Liao Kuo-tung (Amis)
{{small|Sufin Siluko}}
Kuomintang

| bgcolor={{party color|People First Party (Republic of China)}} rowspan=2 |

| rowspan=2 | Lin Cheng-er (Amis)
People First Party

2004

| bgcolor={{party color|Democratic Progressive Party}} |

| Chen Ying (Puyuma)
{{small|Asenay Daliyalrep}}
Democratic Progressive Party

2008

| bgcolor={{party color|People First Party (Republic of China)}} rowspan=2 |

| rowspan=2 | Lin Cheng-er (Amis)
People First Party

2012

| bgcolor={{party color|Kuomintang}} rowspan=4 |

| rowspan=4 | Jen Tian-tsair (Amis)
{{small|Sra Kacaw}}
Kuomintang

2016

| bgcolor={{party color|Democratic Progressive Party}} rowspan=3 |

| rowspan=3 | Chen Ying (Puyuma)
{{small|Asenay Daliyalrep}}
Democratic Progressive Party

2020
2024

| bgcolor={{party color|Kuomintang}} rowspan=1 |

| rowspan=3 | Huang Jen (Amis)
{{small|Kin Cyang}}
Kuomintang

Election results

=2024=

{{Election box begin|title=Legislative Election 2024: Lowland Aborigine Constituency {{cite web|title=11th Legislative Election Result|url=https://vote2024.cec.gov.tw/en/indexP.html|type=Legislator|publisher=Taiwan Central Election Commission (中央選舉委員會)|accessdate=16 January 2024}}

}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link|

|party = Kuomintang

|candidate = Sra Kacaw

|votes = 45,242

|percentage = 38.00

|change =

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{{Election box winning candidate with party link|

|party = Democratic Progressive Party

|candidate = Chen Ying

|votes = 27,431

|percentage = 23.04

|change =

}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link|

|party = Kuomintang

|candidate = Huang Jen

|votes = 20,087

|percentage = 16.87

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Independent

|candidate = Zhen Zheng Zong

|votes = 9,823

|percentage = 8.25

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Independent

|candidate = Gao Meizhu

|votes = 6,928

|percentage = 5.82

|change =

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{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Independent

|candidate = Chung Jen‧Da Lu Sih

|votes = 5,148

|percentage = 4.32

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Independent

|candidate = Wu Jian Zhi Ka Fei Ge

|votes = 2,486

|percentage = 2.09

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate|

|party = Taiwan Renewal Party

|candidate = KoLon

|votes = 1,055

|percentage = 0.89

|change =

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{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = New Party (Taiwan)

|candidate = Mikagkag Lifuk

|votes = 863

|percentage = 0.72

|change =

}}

{{Election box total valid|

|votes = 119,063

}}

{{Election box hold with party link|

|winner = Kuomintang

|swing =

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{{Election box hold with party link|

|winner = Democratic Progressive Party

|swing =

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{{Election box hold with party link|

|winner = Kuomintang

|swing =

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{{Election box end}}

References

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