Xindang

Xindang party leader Yok Mu-ming at a campaign rally on March 8, 2008, ahead of the 2008 presidential election

The Xindang Party Office in Taipei

The Xindang ( Chinese  新 黨 , Pinyin Xīn Dăng , English New Party  - "New Party", formerly Chinese  中華 新 黨 , Pinyin Zhōnghúa Xīn Dăng  - "Chinese New Party") is a political party of the conservative spectrum in the Republic of China in Taiwan .

The party was founded on August 10, 1993 as a split from the Kuomintang (KMT). The founders also included six former Kuomintang parliamentarian in 1992 elected Legislative Yuan . The split was caused by dissatisfaction with KMT Chairman and President of the Republic of China Lee Teng-hui . He was accused of authoritarian behavior and suspected of secretly wanting to give up the goal of reunifying mainland China with Taiwan. Another point of criticism was the alleged internal party corruption in the KMT. In the 1990s, the Xindang received an influx of dissatisfied KMT supporters. In the presidential election in 2000 , the Xindang put up Li Ao, a candidate of their own, who received 0.13% of the vote. In the 1995 legislative yuan election , she achieved her best result with 21 (12.8%) out of 164 seats, after which her relative share of the vote fell in the following parliamentary elections. In the election for the legislative yuan in 2012 , the party could no longer win a direct mandate and the party practically slipped into political insignificance.

On November 27, 2012, the Xindang announced their departure from the KMT-led pan-blue coalition to which the Xindang had previously belonged. The party chairman Yok Mu-ming (郁慕明) said that the Xindang had so far supported the KMT to prevent the parties of the pan-green coalition from taking power. In view of Taiwan's sluggish economic development, it is now time to put an end to the blue-green confrontation course. The Xindang wants to pursue a policy that is more independent of the KMT in the future. The fact that the Xindang had not been involved in the subsequently formed KMT-led government in the 2012 presidential and parliamentary elections certainly played a role in this decision, despite the support of the KMT candidate Ma Ying-jeou .

On August 22, 2015, however, the Xindang party leader Yok Muming again called on his party supporters to vote for the Kuomintang candidates in the direct election of the constituency candidates in the upcoming election of the legislative yuan in 2016 in order to prevent a victory for the DPP . The Xindang only ran for the 34 parliamentary seats, which are awarded via the state list, but failed there with 4.18% of the votes at the 5% hurdle .

National election results so far

Legislative Yuan

choice	Won seats	modification	Total votes	Votes in percent	Result	Top candidate
1995	21/164	▲ 21	1,222,931	13.0%	in opposition	Chen Kuei-miao
1998	11/225	▼ 10	708.465	7.1%	in opposition	Chou Yang-shan
2001	1/225	▼ 8	269,620	2.9%	Part of the pan-blue government coalition	Yok Mu-ming
2004	1/225	▬	12,137	0.13%	Part of the pan-blue government coalition	Yok Mu-ming
2008	2/113	▲ 1	199.402	3.53%	Part of the pan-blue government coalition	Yok Mu-ming
2012	0/113	▼ 2	10,678	0.08%	not represented in the Legislative Yuan	Yok Mu-ming
2016	0/113	▬	510.074	4.18%	not represented in the Legislative Yuan	Yok Mu-ming
2020	0/113	▬	147.373	1.04%	not represented in the Legislative Yuan	Yok Mu-ming

National Assembly

choice	Won seats	modification	Total votes	Votes in percent
1996	46/334	▲ 46	1,425,896	13.7%
2005	3/300	▼ 43	34,253	0.88%

Web links

Commons : Xindang  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• 新 黨 全球 資訊 網 - 歡迎 您 的 來臨 - Xindang website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Taiwan Communiqué: Elections for the Legislative Yuan. (PDF) International Committee for Human Rights in Taiwan, September 1993, accessed November 18, 2016 (English, Issue No. 59). 
2. ^ New Party breaks away from pan-blue coalition. The China Post, November 27, 2012, accessed December 26, 2012 . 
3. ^ New Party throws weight behind KMT in legislative election. Focus Taiwan, August 22, 2015, accessed December 13, 2015 .