# 2018 referendums go against Tsai’s camp on marriage and energy

Date: 2018

## The fact

On 24 November 2018 several referendums, including on marriage definition and nuclear-free 2025, went against Tsai’s camp, alongside local-election losses.

## Context

CEC ran the votes. She did not write every ballot question. A referendum loss is still a dated polarization-and-energy-politics instrument.

Marriage 2019 later passed anyway on a Court clock. Energy blackouts are a later reliability row.

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 [political polarization](/drivers/political-polarization) and energy: completed referendum losses constrained her marriage-and-nuclear-free path.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 24 November 2018 referendum results against her camp, independently reported.

Not established: that 2016 was stolen, or a unique later TFR coefficient from one Sunday.

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 declared. Her camp lost several questions. The Court clock on marriage still ran.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies 2018 referendums go against Tsai’s camp on marriage and energy, not a later speech about 2018 referendums go against Tsai’s camp on marriage and energy.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. 2018 referendums go against Tsai’s camp on marriage and energy on 2018-11-24 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 2018 referendums go against Tsai’s camp on marriage and energy into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to Voters chose. CEC declared. Her camp lost several questions. The Court clock on marriage still ran. 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

- Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization
- Nuclear-Energy Deployment: https://factrail.ai/drivers/nuclear-energy-deployment

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-taiwan-election-idUSKCN1NT0K4
- https://www.cec.gov.tw/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/tw-tsai-referendums-2018