The were held on 12 November 1936 in

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under Japanese rule. According to the

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, half members of prefectural assembly shall be elected by the members of local assembly and the other half be appointed by the . In this time, 76 seats from five prefectural assemblies were open for election. Voting was done by

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s (EC) form by the 3,600 members of local assemblies. Half of them (1,800) were directly elected in the previous year, the other half were appointed by the . In this election, the first division of

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s were implemented in Taiwan.

Electoral College size

Only around 0.073% of the population were eligible to vote in the election, which includes 743 (or 0.31% of) " Japan Mainlanders" on Taiwan and 2,864 (or 0.061% of) " Taiwan Islanders" .

Result

All 76 seats were elected. The overall turnout was at 98.97%, of which Taiwanese was higher than Japanese. 7 invalid electoral votes were found and 37 did not cast their votes. Amongst the elected prefectural assembly, 36 were Japanese and 40 were Taiwanese. The

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then appointed 76 members, cementing the control of the Japanese in the assembly.

References

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