More than 19.54 million Taiwanese are eligible to vote in Saturday’s presidential election, the Central Election Commission (CEC) said on Tuesday.
The CEC said that 19,548,531 people would be eligible to cast their ballots for president, with an additional 17,476 eligible to do so for legislators-at-large, due to a two-month difference in the residency requirements for the elections.
Election laws stipulate that eligible voters in the presidential election must have lived in Taiwan for no less than six consecutive months, while the requirement for other elections is four months.
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Meanwhile, 19.03 million people would be eligible to vote for district legislators, while 438,199 can vote for indigenous legislators.
Of the total number of voters in the presidential election, 13.58 million, or 69.49 percent, are registered in the six special municipalities — Taipei, New Taipei City, Taoyuan, Taichung, Tainan and Kaohsiung — the commission said.
Out of the six municipalities, New Taipei City has the highest number of eligible voters at 3.4 million, followed by Taichung with 2.32 million, Kaohsiung with 2.31 million, Taipei with 2.09 million, Taoyuan with 1.88 million and Tainan with 1.56 million.
People aged 40 to 49 make up the largest presidential voting bloc with 3.88 million eligible voters, or 19.88 percent of the electorate, followed by those aged 50 to 59 with 3.53 million eligible voters, who account for 18.06 percent of the electorate, the CEC said.
About 2.84 million people aged 20 to 29 are eligible to vote in the presidential election, it said.
On election day, voters would receive three ballots — a presidential ballot, a regional or indigenous legislator ballot, and a ballot for a political party that would determine legislators-at-large seats.
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