President Ma Ying-jeou and the Kuomintang (KMT) have won Taiwan’s presidential election with a reduced majority of only 51.6 per cent of the vote, down by around 6 per cent on the last election in 2008.
Meanwhile, the main opposition party, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), represented by its female leader Dr Tsai Ing-wen, scored 45.63 per cent, up 4 per cent on the party’s vote in the last election. The PFP’s James Soong polled 2.77 per cent, down some 5 per cent on…