The election and recall of public officials shall be governed by this Act.

“Public officials” in this Act refers to the following personnel:
1.Central public officials: legislators of the Legislative Yuan
2. Local public officials: special municipality councilors, county (city) councilors, township (city) council representatives, representatives of mountain indigenous districts of special municipalities (hereafter referred to as mountain indigenous districts), mayors of special municipalities, mayors of counties (cities), mayors of townships (cities), chiefs of indigenous districts and chiefs of villages (boroughs)

Elections for public office shall be implemented by way of common, fair, direct and secret vote.
The elections for legislators at-large and legislators residing overseas shall be implemented in proportion to the votes received by the political parties.
The recall of public officials shall be decided by the voters in the electoral district where they were elected and by way of secret vote.

The age and length of residence of voters and candidates shall be calculated up to the day before election day and shall be based on household registration data unless otherwise specified.
The length of residence specified in the preceding paragraph shall be calculated from the date of household registration.
In the case of a new vote, the calculation shall be made according to the original election day.

In this Act, the calculation of the periods designated for election and recall shall be made in accordance with the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Code, unless otherwise specified. If the last day of such a period is Saturday, Sunday, a national holiday, or any other rest day, the period shall only be prolonged if government agencies stop working due to a natural disaster.
In this Act, a date that is a stipulated number of days before election day shall be calculated by starting on the day before election day and counting backwards the stipulated number of days; a date that is a stipulated number of days after election day shall be calculated by starting on the day after election day and counting forwards the stipulated number of days; the start date of a period that begins a stipulated number of days before election day shall be calculated by starting on the day before election day and counting backwards to one day before the stipulated number of days.
If election or recall applications are filed by mail with the government agency in charge of the election, the date of application shall be the date when the said government agency receives the application.

The day of the election and recall of public officials shall be a holiday.