Editing Democratic Progressive Party (section)

=== 2016–2024: in majority government ===
On 16 January 2016, Taiwan held [[2016 Taiwanese presidential election|a general election for its presidency]] and [[2016 Taiwanese legislative election|for the Legislative Yuan]]. The DPP gained the presidential seat, with the election of Tsai Ing-wen, who received 56.12% of the votes, while her opponent [[Eric Chu]] gained 31.2%.<ref>{{cite web|title = Taiwan gets first female President as DPP sweeps election|url = http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/taiwan-gets-first-female/2432040.html|website = Channel NewsAsia|access-date = 16 January 2016|archive-date = 16 January 2016|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160116134410/http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/taiwan-gets-first-female/2432040.html}}</ref> In addition, the DPP gained a majority of the Legislative Yuan, winning 68 seats in the 113-seat legislature, up from 40 in 2012 election, thus giving them the majority for the first time in its history.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hsiao |first=Alison |date=17 January 2016 |title=ELECTIONS: DPP to control Legislative Yuan |url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2016/01/17/2003637414 |newspaper=Taipei Times |page=6 |access-date=16 January 2016 |archive-date=29 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221129172034/https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2016/01/17/2003637414 |url-status=live }}</ref>

President Tsai won reelection in the [[2020 Taiwanese presidential election]] on 11 January 2020, and the Democratic Progressive Party retained its legislative majority, [[2020 Taiwanese legislative election|winning 61 seats]].