# Tsai Ing-wen wins the 2016 presidential election

Date: 2016

## The fact

On 16 January 2016 [Tsai Ing-wen](/people/tsai-ing-wen) won Taiwan’s presidency, the first woman elected to the office.

## Context

CEC canvassed. KMT lost. She did not write a PRC statute. A landslide is still ordinary rotation after [Ma Ying-jeou](/people/ma-ying-jeou).

The 20 May 2016 oath is the neighbouring start. 2020 re-election is later.

The president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) is head of state under the Additional Articles. She does not write a PRC statute, a US NDAA, a TSMC board minute, or a 2026 Lai cabinet order. She left office on 20 May 2024; [Lai Ching-te](/people/lai-ching-te) is president. A blackout is not a finding that every reactor was thereby safe. A Pelosi transit is not a PRC missile. Allegation of a stolen 2018 referendum is not stored as a completed steal. An indigenous apology is not a land-title gazette. A New Southbound brand is not an FTA by itself. A 2024 LY split is not a finding that the 2020 mandate was void.

## 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 presidential election records rotation and a first woman president.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a 16 January 2016 presidential win, independently reported.

Not established: that she remains president in 2026, or a unique later GDP coefficient from election 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.

CEC canvassed. She was the candidate. The LY later sat with a DPP majority.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Tsai Ing-wen wins the 2016 presidential election, not a later speech about Tsai Ing-wen wins the 2016 presidential election.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Tsai Ing-wen wins the 2016 presidential election on 2016-01-16 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 Tsai Ing-wen wins the 2016 presidential election into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to Voters chose. CEC canvassed. She was the candidate. The LY later sat with a DPP majority. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Tsai Ing-wen: https://factrail.ai/people/tsai-ing-wen

## Drivers

- Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-taiwan-election-idUSKCN0US0K420160116
- https://www.cec.gov.tw/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/tw-tsai-elected-2016