Lowland Aborigine Constituency

The Lowland Aborigine constituency (Chinese: 平地原住民選舉區; pinyin: Píngdì Yuán Zhùmín Xuǎnjǔ Qū) is a multi-member constituency of the Legislative Yuan. Taiwanese indigenous people have elected representatives to reserved legislative seats since the 1970s.[1] Predecessors to both the Lowland and Highland Aborigine districts were established in 1994.[2] Since 2008 the Lowland Taiwanese indigenous elect three members to the Legislative Yuan. At its peak between 1998 and 2004, the constituency sent 4 members to the Legislative Yuan.

Lowland Aborigine district
Multi-member Constituency
for the Legislative Yuan
ElectorateTaiwanese Plains Aborigines
Current constituency
Created2008
Member(s)Yang Jen-fu (2008–2012)
Liao Kuo-tung (2008–)
Lin Cheng-er (2008–2016)
Sra Kacaw (2012–)
Chen Ying (2016–)

The district is dominated by the Amis ethnic group, with only one legislator (Chen Ying) ever elected from the Puyuma ethnic group.

Legislators
Election Representative Representative Representative Representative
1980 Lin Tung-hung (Amis)
Kuomintang
1983 Yang Chuan-kwang (Amis)
Maysang Kalimud
Kuomintang
1986 Tsai Chung-han (Amis)
Safulo Kacaw Lalanges
Kuomintang
1989 Chuang Chin-sheng (Amis)
Kuomintang
1992 Kao Wei-he (Amis)
Takapu
Kuomintang
1995 Chang Ren-hsiang (Amis)
Kuomintang
1998 Tsai Chung-han (Amis)
Safulo Kacaw Lalanges
Independent		 Yang Jen-fu (Amis)
Kuomintang		 Lin Cheng-er (Amis)
Kuomintang
2001 Liao Kuo-tung (Amis)
Sufin Siluko
Kuomintang		 Lin Cheng-er (Amis)
People First Party
2004 Chen Ying (Puyuma)
Asenay Daliyalrep
Democratic Progressive Party
2008 Lin Cheng-er (Amis)
People First Party
2012 Jen Tian-tsair (Amis)
Sra Kacaw
Kuomintang
2016 Chen Ying (Puyuma)
Asenay Daliyalrep
Democratic Progressive Party
2020

References
  1. Hale, Erin (8 January 2020). "'Always campaign time': Why Taiwan's indigenous people back KMT". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
  2. Gerber, Abraham (10 April 2016). "Campaigners pan empty Aboriginal legislative seats". Taipei Times. Retrieved 10 April 2016.

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