2025 Taiwan Recall & Referendum Vote Live Count

Taipei, Aug. 23 (CNA) These are live results for Saturday's referendum on restarting the Third Nuclear Power Plant and recall votes for seven Kuomintang (KMT) lawmakers.

Taiwan went "nuclear-free" on May 17, after shutting down the No. 2 reactor at the power plant situated in Pingtung County in southern Taiwan.

The referendum, proposed by the Taiwan People's Party with KMT support, asked: "Do you agree that the Third Nuclear Power Plant should continue operating once the competent authority has confirmed that there are no safety concerns?"

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Meanwhile, seven KMT lawmakers faced recall on Saturday, following a failed July 26 attempt to unseat 24 of them. The campaign was launched by civic groups and backed by the ruling Democratic Progressive Party to reshape the opposition-controlled Legislature. 

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06:25pm

The referendum on reactivating Taiwan's Third Nuclear Power Plant is expected to fail.

So far, 4,230,708 people have voted in favor, while 1,474,006 have voted against, with 98.8 percent of polling stations reporting.

06:10pm  

KMT Legislator Johnny Chiang (江啟臣) and Lo Ming-tsai (羅明才) have also declared they survived recall votes to remove them from office at around 6:00pm.

Meanwhile, the recall group announced that the recall attempt against You Hao (游灝) was unsuccessful.

05:45pm

KMT Legislator Yen Kuan-heng (顏寬恆) announced that the recall vote against him did not pass. According to the Central Election Commission, 12,733 voted in favor of the recall, 23,194 voted against it, and 191 polling stations have yet to report their results.

Yang Chiung-ying (楊瓊瓔), Lin Szu-ming (林思銘), and Ma Wen-chun (馬文君) all likewise announced that the recall votes against them did not pass.

05:20pm

As of 5:20 p.m., votes in every county and city favored restarting the Third Nuclear Power Plant, with supporters significantly outnumbering opponents.

In Pingtung, 118,313 people voted in support, compared with 88,971 opposed.

Supporters also hold the majority in other regions in southern Taiwan, traditionally a stronghold of the DPP, which regards opposition to nuclear power as a core party value.

This contrasts with the 2021 referendum on unsealing and resuming work on Taiwan’s Fourth Nuclear Power Plant in New Taipei, which failed to pass—more than 60 percent of voters in Chiayi, Tainan, Kaohsiung, and Pingtung opposed the proposal.

04:50pm 

About 50 minutes into the vote count, there were around 1,641,829 votes in favor of restarting the No. 3 Nuclear Power Plant, and 584,287 votes against.

Under Taiwan’s Referendum Act, for the proposal to pass it requires at least 5,000,523 “yes” votes -- equal to one-quarter of all eligible voters  -- and the number of “yes” votes must exceed the number of “no” votes.