Election Results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| President | Vice president | |||||
| Kuomintang | Ma Ying-jeou | Vincent Siew Wan-chang | 7,659,014 | 58.45% | ||
| Democratic Progressive Party | Frank Hsieh Chang-ting | Su Tseng-chang | 5,444,949 | 41.55% | ||
| Total | 13,103,963 | 100.00% | ||||
Polls closed at 16:00 local time (UTC+8) on March 22, 2008. The final result, with all 14,401 precincts reporting, showed a landslide victory for the KMT candidate Ma Ying-jeou over the DPP candidate Frank Hsieh, with 7,658,724 votes, 58.45% of the popular vote for Ma against 5,445,239 votes, 41.55% for Hsieh. Turnout was 76.33%, with 13.2 million votes from 17.3 million eligible voters. The CEC released the final results with 100% of precincts reporting.
One local media commentator analyzed that their primary concern may be more economic than political, and quoted Bill Clinton's famous slogan, "It's the economy, stupid", as an explanation of the landslide victory for Ma. There was a sizeable number of Taiwanese who would prefer maintaining the status quo, a position favoured by Ma when he proclaimed that he would "not push for Taiwan independence or reunification with China if elected".
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