# Lai Ching-te wins the 2024 presidential election with 40.05 percent Date: 2024 ## The fact On 13 January 2024 [Lai Ching-te](/people/lai-ching-te) and Hsiao Bi-khim won Taiwan’s presidency with 5,586,019 votes, 40.05 percent, ahead of [Hou Yu-ih](/people/hou-yu-ih) at 33.49 percent and [Ko Wen-je](/people/ko-wen-je) at 26.46 percent, on 71.86 percent turnout. It was the DPP’s third consecutive presidential term, the first such streak since direct elections. A 40 percent plurality is not a majority. The LY result that night is a neighbouring split. ## Context He was vice president. Neighbouring 1 February LY convening is the split child. He did not sit as CEC. 1 February 2024 LY split is the neighbouring legislative certificate. 20 May 2024 oath is the child start. The president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) is head of state under the Additional Articles and commander-in-chief. He does not write a PLA communique, a TSMC capex print, or a Legislative Yuan majority. A National Day address is not a completed interceptor. An inaugural line is not a PLA missile. A special-act press conference is not a passed statute. William Lai is a common English name for the same person; the stored English name is Lai Ching-te. ## Evidence and sources Central Election Commission Taiwan carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is [democratic resilience](/drivers/democratic-resilience): a completed certified presidential contest under PRC pressure. ## What is established and what is not Established: 13 January 2024 CEC result, independently reported; 40.05 percent. Not established: a unique later T-Dome coefficient from that Saturday, or that a majority uniquely formed that night. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. He was the DPP nominee and sitting vice president. Hou and Ko conceded.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Lai Ching-te wins the 2024 presidential election with 40.05 percent, not a later speech about Lai Ching-te wins the 2024 presidential election with 40.05 percent. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Lai Ching-te wins the 2024 presidential election with 40.05 percent on 2024-01-13 is not a licence to treat every later Central Election Commission Taiwan communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Lai Ching-te wins the 2024 presidential election with 40.05 percent into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to Voters and CEC certified. He was the DPP nominee and sitting vice president. Hou and Ko conceded. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Lai Ching-te: https://factrail.ai/people/lai-ching-te ## Drivers - Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience - Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization ## Sources - https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/polls-open-taiwans-critical-elections-watched-closely-by-china-2024-01-13/ - https://web.cec.gov.tw/english/article/59711 ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/tw-lai-elected-2024