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Earlier today, President Tsai Ing-wen spoke to reporters and her supporters in a presser. Varsity provides a few highlights and key points of her address. #TsaiIngwen #TaiwanElection2020pic.twitter.com/BfvxzTU7yL

#TaiwanElection2020 #ElectionResults Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen secured her second term with a record breaking 8,170,186 votes. Here are the distribution of votes among candidates and votes according to geographical districts.pic.twitter.com/qPTlKjJLr1

Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen has secured her 2nd term with a landslide victory. In a speech afterwards, Tsai said her people have shown the world how much they value democracy and sovereignty of the island, and that they reject the “one country, two systems” formula by Beijingpic.twitter.com/81h6OID7XH

20:19 A supporter of Han Kuo-yu bursted into tears as the Kaohsiung mayor lags far behind President Tsai Ing-wen in preliminary election results. #TaiwanElectionpic.twitter.com/tmGTFRjRSK

Tsai, 62 and retired, has been supporting Han since the 2018 mayoral election. He attacked DPP for several controversial reforms, including the legalisation of same-sex marriage and the pension reform. He also criticized DPP for manipulating people’s fear of ‘losing the country.’pic.twitter.com/pwsPRaGB3R

62-year-old Lin joined Han Kuo-yu supporters outside KMT’s central office in Taipei.He said he's unsatisfied with the Tsai administration‘s performance in building Taiwan’s economy.“Ten years ago, I could earn more than 100,000 TWD per month while I can only earn 30,000 TWD now."pic.twitter.com/8vzhnGNuCE

Supporters of President Tsai Ing-wen gathered outside her campaign headquarters in Taipei. As of 17:50, Tsai has secured nearly 3 million votes and her major opponent KMT’s Han kuo-yu grabbed 2 million votes, according to TVBS. #Taiwan2020 #TaiwanElectionpic.twitter.com/z7j85Cbpcd

17:06 People gather outside the Kuomintang Party's Central Office, keeping a close eye on the vote counting for 2020 Taiwan's presidential election.pic.twitter.com/q8pej8AhEa

Taiwanese media report that incumbent President Tsai Ing-wen leads her main opponent Chinese Nationalist’s Han Kuo Yu and People First Party James Soong in first results. As of 16:45 today, Tsai grabbed more than 1.15 million votes according to TVBS.pic.twitter.com/MvInzSZQuo

Voting for Taiwan’s next president and lawmakers just wrapped up at 4pm. There were over 19.3 million voters this year, and commentators expect turnout to be one of the highest ever. Varsity reporters are at the central counting centre, stay tuned for more updates #TaiwanElectionpic.twitter.com/JvRIfWczRT

#taiwanelection Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen said people should vote for her to defend freedom here. She said protests in HK have shown that the “one country, two systems” formula is infeasible, and the world is watching if Taiwanese would cast their votes to support democracypic.twitter.com/slmY9AXneM

#TaiwanElection French tourist Luv Jolivet, who joined his Taiwanese friend to the DPP’s campaign, says he supports the values that the party advocates, such as marriage equality. He also appreciates the party’s courage to speak against “China’s authoritarianism”.pic.twitter.com/fScwrCQkRq

Taking two of his grandsons to the campaign rally, 66-year-old Mr Chou says he wants them to feel the atmosphere of democracy and freedom there. He encourages the youth to decide their own fates by casting their votes instead of leaving the matter in the hands of the old.pic.twitter.com/8dsjOuSYhn

#Taiwanelection Varsity reporters are now at President Tsai Ing-wen’s last major campaign rally in Taipei before the election. Stay tuned for more updates.pic.twitter.com/4SxdDDZiIl

Yan, a teacher, said she attended the rally in support of ideals for a unified nation and not for Han or KMT. She believed in recent years, the general direction has been wrong, and since both both blue and green camps love Taiwan, they should have a platform of communication.pic.twitter.com/4mJNzW4Mkq

He urged voters to give him and his party one more chance to lead Taiwan, and vowed to restore the island’s former glory.pic.twitter.com/3EY6qxWVKD

Dispatch from Taiwan Han Kuo-yu, the presidential candidate of Taiwan's Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang KMT), called on people to “use their wisdom” to vote the incumbent Democratic Progressive Party out, accusing the ruling party of being incapable and corrupted.pic.twitter.com/w2vBnlVyji