Green Party Taiwan
台灣綠黨
ChairpersonYu Hsiao-ching
Liu Chung-hsien
Founded25 January 1996
Headquarters6F, No. 28, Beiping E. Rd., Zhongzheng, Taipei[1]
Membership400
IdeologyGreen politics
Political positionCentre-left
Regional affiliationAsia Pacific Greens Federation
International affiliationGlobal Greens
ColoursGreen
Legislative Yuan
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Municipal mayors
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Magistrates/mayors
0 / 16
Councilors
1 / 912
Township/city mayors
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Website
www.greenparty.org.tw
Green Party Taiwan
Traditional Chinese台灣綠黨
Simplified Chinese台湾绿党

Green Party Taiwan[upper-roman 1] is a political party in Taiwan established on 25 January 1996. Although the party is sympathetic to Taiwanese nationalism and shares a number of centre-left positions with the Pan-Green Coalition, the party emphasizes campaigning primarily on social and environmental issues. The party is not a member of, and should not be confused with, the Pan-Green Coalition. Green Party Taiwan is a member of the Asia Pacific Greens Federation and participates in the Global Greens.

Much of the 400-strong membership are affiliated with the non-governmental organisation sector of Taiwanese society, as well as from academia and the youth community.[2]

Electoral history

In 1996, Green Party Taiwan’s Kao Meng-ting was elected to the National Assembly. However, he left the party in 1997.

In the 2008 legislative election, the Green Party of Taiwan formed a red-green coalition with a labour-led organization Raging Citizens Act Now! (人民火大行動聯盟), but failed to win any seats.

In the 2012 legislative election, Green Party Taiwan garnered 1.7% of the party vote. While still far short of the 5% threshold to win a seat in the legislature, this makes it the largest extraparliamentary party in Taiwan.[3] Its best showing is in Ponso no Tao where Taiwan’s nuclear waste storage facility is located. There, the party collected 35.76% of the party votes due to its strong antinuclear stance.

In the 2014 local elections, the party won two seats. Wang Hao-yu was elected to the Taoyuan City council and Jay Chou to the Hsinchu County Council.[4]

In the 2016 general election, the party ran in a coalition with the newly founded centre-left Social Democratic Party[5] and fielded candidates in both constituency races and the nationwide party ballot.[6] The coalition garnered 2.5% of the party vote without winning any seats.[7]

In the 2020 general election the Green Party nominated five, young professionals, including famed psychologist Cheng Hui-wen and party founder Kao Cheng-yan.[8] They got 2.4% of the votes and didn’t win any seats. They were the second largest party that didn’t win a seat.[9]

The Green Party averages around 3% of total votes cast in metropolitan urban areas, with support in rural areas, such as Orchid Island, as high as 35.8%.[2]

Election Mayors &
Magistrates		 Councils Third-level
Municipal heads		 Third-level
Municipal councils		 Fourth-level
Village heads		 Election Leader
2018
unified
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3 / 912
0 / 204
1 / 2,148
0 / 7,744
 Wang Hao-yu
2022
unified
0 / 22
1 / 910
0 / 204
0 / 2,139
0 / 7,748
 Yu Hsiao-ching

List of chairpersons

  • Kao Cheng-yan (高成炎), 1996–1997 and 2003–2004 Chair. Professor of Computer Science at National Taiwan University; Green Party Taiwan's founding chair; former director of Taiwan Environmental Protection Union; candidate for the Legislative Yuan in 1998 and 2001.
  • Shin-Min Shih (施信民), 1998 Chair. Professor of Chemical Engineering at National Taiwan University; President of the Institute of Environment and Resource; former Director of Taiwan Environmental Protection Union;
  • Kuang-Yu Chen (陳光宇), 1999–2000 Chair. candidate for the Taipei City Councilor in 1998.
  • Ayo Cheng (鄭先祐), 2001–2002 Chair. Dean of College of Environment and Ecology at National University of Tainan; former director of Taiwan Environmental Protection Union.
  • Yenwen Peng (彭渰雯), 2005 Chair. Assistant professor of Public Administration and Management at Shih Hsin University; candidate for the Taipei City Councilor in 1998.
  • Sam Lin (林聖崇), 2006 Co-chair. Former Chair of Taiwan Ecology Conservation Union.
  • Jolan Hsieh (謝若蘭), 2006 Co-chair. Assistant professor of Indigenous Culture at National Dong Hua University.
  • Chen Man-li (陳曼麗), 2007 Co-chair. Former president of the Homemakers' Union and Foundation; former president of the National Union of Taiwan Women Association; candidate for the Legislative Yuan in 2008. Elected to the legislature in 2016 after joining the Democratic Progressive Party.
  • Huei-Sean Hong (洪輝祥), 2007 Co-chair. President of Pingtung Environmental Protection Union; candidate for the Legislative Yuan in 2004.
  • Bau-Ju Chung (鍾寶珠), 2008–2009 Co-chair. President of Hualien Environmental Protection Union; candidate for the Hualien County Councilor in 1998, 2002.
  • Hong-Lin Chang (張宏林), 2008–2009 Co-chair. Secretary General of the Taiwan NPO Self-regulation Alliance; former Secretary General of the Society of Wildness; candidate for the Taipei City Councilor in 2006.
  • Gelinda Chang, co-chair for 2011; educator.
  • Robin Winkler, co-chair for 2011 and 2012; lawyer and founder of Wild at Heart Legal Defense Association; naturalised Taiwanese citizen.
  • Karen Yu (余宛如), co-chair from 2012 to 2015; social entrepreneur and co-founder of Öko-Green Café, a Fairtrade coffee shop. Elected to the Legislative Yuan in 2016 as a member of the Democratic Progressive Party.
  • Lee Keng-cheng (李根政), co-chair from 2013 to 2017; artist, educator and founder of Citizen of the Earth Taiwan, an environmental organisation.
  • Chang Yu-jing, co-chair from 2015 to 2017; environmental activist.

Notable persons

See also

Notes

  1. ↑

References

  1. ↑ "台灣綠黨". greenparty.org.tw.
  2. 1 2 "Green Party Taiwan". Global Greens. 20 July 2014. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
  3. ↑ 綠黨超越新黨 成小黨落選頭 Archived 18 January 2012 at the Wayback Machine. China Times (15 January 2012): Greens surpassing the New Party to be the largest extraparliamentary party.
  4. ↑ Chen, Christie (30 November 2014). "Green Party's historic win to bring 'green politics' to Taiwan". Central News Agency. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
  5. ↑ "Greens, Social Democrats to cooperate". taipeitimes.com. 18 August 2015.
  6. ↑ "Green Party Taiwan issues list of legislative candidates". taipeitimes.com. 26 August 2015.
  7. ↑ Fell, Dafydd; Peng, Yen-wen (29 January 2016). "The Electoral Fortunes of Taiwan's Green Party: 1996–2012". Japanese Journal of Political Science. 17 (1): 63–83. doi:10.1017/S1468109915000390. S2CID 154855947.
  8. ↑ "Green Party Taiwan nominates high-profile psy..." Taiwan News. 14 November 2019. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
  9. ↑ Staff, T. N. L. (10 January 2020). "Taiwan's 2020 General Elections: Live Map and Updates". The News Lens International Edition. Retrieved 13 June 2021.
  10. ↑ "Groups condemn rejection of appeal to return Dapu land to original owners – Taipei Times". taipeitimes.com. 23 April 2016. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
  11. ↑ "詹順貴凝聚20年經驗作長梯 助小黨進國會 – 新頭殼 newtalk". newtalk.tw. 25 August 2015. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
  12. ↑ 我為甚麼支持綠黨？ Archived 6 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine (Why do I support the Green Party?)
  13. ↑ "Taiwan Today (2012) Tao Orchid Islanders continue fight for nuclear-free homeland". 14 March 2014. Archived from the original on 14 March 2014.
  14. ↑ "Home | 張竹芩博士 JhuCin Rita Jhang, PhD". JhuCin Rita Jhang. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
  15. ↑ "2022 Team Members". NATSA Website. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
  16. ↑ "【環境 X 大麻 X 李菁琪】". 綠黨 (in Chinese (Taiwan)). 19 June 2021. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
  17. ↑ "認識綠黨". web.greenparty.org.tw. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
  18. ↑ "Interview: Green is the colour for Taiwan's pioneering 'weed lawyer'". Hong Kong Free Press HKFP. 12 June 2021. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
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