whole since 1948. The provincial Governor and municipal Mayors were appointed by the central government. Direct elections were only held for local governments at the county level, and for legislators at the provincial level. In addition, the Martial law in Taiwan also prohibited most forms of opposition. From the 1990s, a series of democratic reforms were implemented in Taiwan. The Additional Articles of the Constitution were adopted to grant full civil and political rights to the Taiwanese people (officially the people of the Free area of the Republic of China). Under the Additional Articles, the President are to be elected by popular vote and all seats in the national parliament are to be reelected. Following the reforms, the first parliamentary elections on Taiwan were held in 1991 for the National Assembly and 1992 for the Legislative Yuan. The first election for provincial Governors and municipality Mayors was held in 1994. Most importantly, Taiwan held the first direct election of the President and Vice President in 1996. The provincial government was reconstructed as a subsidiary of the central government in 1998 and elections for governor and provincial legislators were terminated. The National Assembly ceased to be convened regularly in 2000 and was abolished in 2005. The number of members of the Legislative Yuan was reduced to 113 from 2008. In recent years, the government has further consolidated the various elections into two categories: national elections and local elections, each election category to be held on the same day. The national elections elect the President and Vice President as well as the 113 Legislators. The local elections elect 11,130 local officials who serve in self-government bodies. Current election types Presidential elections Presidential elections are held to jointly elect the president and vice president by first-past-the-post. Legislative Yuan elections Legislative elections are held to elect the 113 members of the Legislative Yuan by parallel voting: 73 members by first-past-the-post in single-member constituencies 6 by single non-transferable voting in multi-member constituencies, exclusive for persons with indigenous status 34 by party-list proportional representation voting Local elections Nine types of local elections are held to elect: Mayors of special municipalities Magistrates of counties and mayors of cities Councillors in special municipality councils Councillors in county and city councils Mayors of townships and county-administered cities Representatives in township/city councils Chief administrators of mountain indigenous districts Representatives in mountain indigenous district councils Village chiefs The local elections are