2025 Taiwanese mass electoral recall campaigns
| 2025 Taiwanese mass electoral recall campaigns | |||
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| 大罷免, 大罷免潮 | |||
Propaganda, rallies, marches and demonstrations during Mass Recall Campaigns | |||
| Date | 1 February 2025 – 23 August 2025 (6 months, 3 weeks and 1 day) | ||
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| Goals | Recall elected public servants, mainly legislators, and later expanded to mayors and county councilors. | ||
| Methods | Recall votes | ||
| Resulted in | Pan-Blue Coalition Victory The recall proposals for a DPP county councilor in Nantou, the mayor of Hsinchu and 31 KMT legislators were rejected. KMT remained the largest party in Legislative Yuan. | ||
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The 2025 Taiwanese mass electoral recall campaigns, also known as the "Great Recall Wave" (大罷免潮) or "Great Recall" (大罷免) in Chinese, were political campaigns and social movements to recall elected officials in Taiwan from February 2025 to August 2025. The recall of several targets proceeded to votes, including thirty-one KMT legislators, one independent mayor, and a DPP councilor. In total, thirty-two individuals affiliated with the pan-Blue camp and independents failed to be recalled because the number of dissenting votes exceeded supporting votes, while the DPP councilor, despite receiving more supporting than opposing votes, did not pass the legal threshold and therefore also survived the recall.
On July 26, recall votes were held for 24 members of the Legislative Yuan and the mayor of Hsinchu City. All recall attempts failed, with a majority of voters rejecting them in each case. On August 23, alongside the referendum on the reactivation of the Maanshan Nuclear Power Plant (核三), seven additional recall proposals for legislators were also scheduled, all of which also were unsuccessful.