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Taiwan Politicians & Factions Database
Taiwan’s legislators, officials, councillors, factions, institutions and bills — held as one archive you can pull apart, read and trace.
Overview
Parnassus turns a verified research vault into an archive terminal. Every politician, institution, faction and bill is a file you can pull, read and trace through its relationships.
Figures as of 4 October 2026 (database 1.45.0).
Act I · Find
Find anyone, and anything.
01 · The landscape
Legislators, officials, councillors, factions, civil-society figures, institutions and documents — bills, Control Yuan cases and court judgments: 9,486 files in seven columns. Each person is filed once, under their highest office, and files that belong to the same body sit side by side.
02 · Search
Press ⌘K and every file is in one table. Type what you are after — here 人工智慧, artificial intelligence — keep only the bills, and the AI Basic Act is the first row.
03 · Select
Narrow the same table to the sitting legislators of this term, by party, committee or county. Tick the ones you want and they gather in Selected files, ready to export as CSV or Markdown, each with a link back to its file.
Act II · Understand
Understand who is behind it.
04 · The bill
The AI Basic Act’s file says where it stands — passed at third reading in the 11th Legislative Yuan — and lists everyone who sponsored a draft of it: twenty-seven legislators, fifteen from the DPP and twelve from the KMT.
05 · Relationships
Put the sponsors on one relation graph. One ring out shows the parties, caucuses and committees they share; two rings out, who else sits around them. Filter by the kind of relation, or keep only what is current.
06 · Institutions
Agencies are files too. The National Science and Technology Council, the Ministry of Digital Affairs and the Ministry of Economic Affairs, with the Executive Yuan above them and the people who lead them, on one graph.
07 · Chambers
The Legislative Yuan and all 22 local councils sit on a three-dimensional map of Taiwan, seat by seat and coloured by party; cities and counties take the colour of their mayor’s or magistrate’s party.
Act III · Read
Read the source, and keep your own notes.
08 · Documents
The Legislative Yuan’s own documents open in a reader: the Executive Yuan’s draft and the legislators’ drafts of the same act. Jump to a page, zoom in, and move from one version to the next.
09 · Comments
Select a passage and comment on it: the words stay highlighted, your comment sits beside them, and replies follow below.
10 · Notes
Keep notes on the bill as you read. Type @ and a name to link a sponsor’s file, highlight the line that matters, and export the note as PDF or Markdown.
11 · Citations
Every file, and every page of every document, has its citation ready in Chinese or English — Parnassus, APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, BibTeX or RIS — with the database version it came from.
Act IV · Deliver
Deliver it, and keep it current.
12 · Workspace
Switch to the workspace and keep the bill, its graph and your notes open side by side as windows. Move them, resize them, or let Parnassus arrange them for you.
13 · Tabs
Everything you opened along the way is still there as a tab — files, graphs, chambers, documents and notes — and your tabs follow you to your other devices.
14 · Current
The archive is rebuilt from a verified research vault twice a day. Every release carries a version and a changelog: what changed in the system, and which offices and affiliations changed in the database this week.
15 · Elections
Every city and county is coloured by its sitting mayor’s or magistrate’s party; click one for the candidates for mayor, magistrate and council.
And more
Pick files in Search or straight from the array and export them as CSV or Markdown, each with a link back to the archive.
Every file and every search has its own address, to send to a colleague who has access.
Install Parnassus on a computer or a phone and keep browsing its files without a connection.
Switch the whole interface between Chinese and English; English names follow the spelling used by the English-language press.
Parnassus runs behind sign-in: accounts for clients, time-limited guest links for briefings, and rate-limited, audited access to every file.
Built from the Legislative Yuan’s open data, the Ministry of the Interior’s register of local officials and Central Election Commission bulletins, with news reporting cross-checked across outlets.
Every legislator’s recorded votes in the Legislative Yuan, the bills they co-sponsored, and every election they have stood in, with the result.
Impeachments, corrective measures, investigation reports and court judgments, each with its official text.
For client accounts, the government tenders a company has won. For all 22 cities and counties, their finances since 2001 and a profile of their population since 2013.
Your personal notes are searchable alongside the archive’s files, and open where you left them.
Privacy
Standard search runs on your own device. Smart search runs on our own servers, and the words you type are never logged, stored or shown to anyone.
No advertising, analytics or tracking, and no third-party code. Parnassus talks only to our own servers, and we keep no log of IP addresses.
Notes, comments and tabs stay in your account. No other user can open them, and they are never merged into our database.
Smart search runs Microsoft’s open multilingual-e5 model on our own servers. Your questions are never sent to an AI company.
We walk you through the archive with the institutions, people and bills you follow.