Voting in Taiwan's legislative elections ended at 4 p.m. (0800 GMT) on Saturday with the first results expected to trickle in within an hour. President Chen Shui-bian's pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party hoped to wrest control of parliament from a Nationalist-led opposition alliance, more conciliatory towards China, which held a slim majority in the outgoing chamber. A total of 386 candidates, including 116 independents, were contesting 176 directly elected parliamentary seats. Another 49 seats would be distributed according to the proportion of total votes that each party gets.
