| April Yao | |
| Native Name Lang: | zh |
| Term Start1: | 25 December 2018 |
| Birth Date: | 1969 11, df=yes |
| Mawards: | is not set --> |
April Yao (; born 23 November 1969) is a Taiwanese politician who is currently serving as magistrate of Taitung County.
Yao obtained her doctoral degree from National Taiwan Normal University in political science.[1]
Yao was elected to the Taitung County Council after winning the local election on 3 December 2005, making her the youngest councilor to be elected at the age of 36. In 2010, she was elected as the speaker of the county council.[1]
While serving on the county council, Yao explored bids for higher office, contesting Kuang Li-chen for the Taitung magistracy in 2009,[2] and a seat on the Legislative Yuan in 2012.[3] In 2016, Yao was appointed a deputy secretary-general of the Kuomintang, under chairwoman Hung Hsiu-chu.[4] [5]
Yao defeated Liao Kuo-tung in a Kuomintang primary and subsequently received her party's nomination to contest the Taitung magistracy in 2018.[6] [7]
| 2018 Kuomintang Taitung County magistrate primary results | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| width=80 | Candidates | width=80 | Place | width=80 | Results |
| April Yao | Results not released | ||||
| Liao Kuo-tung | 2nd | Results not released | |||
She faced Democratic Progressive Party challenger Liu Chao-hao and three independent candidates, including former county commissioner Kuang Li-chen.[8] [9] Yao won the magisterial election held on 24 November 2018.[1] [10]
| 2018 Taitung County mayoral results | |||||||||||
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| width=35 | No. | width=150 | Candidate | width=120 | Party | width=75 | Votes | width=75 | Percentage | width=49 | |
| 1 | Kuang Li-chen | Independent | 3,049 | 2.55% | |||||||
| 2 | Liu Chao-hao (劉櫂豪) | Democratic Progressive Party | 44,264 | 37.04% | |||||||
| 3 | Huang Yu-pin (黃裕斌) | Independent | 640 | 0.54% | |||||||
| 4 | Peng Chuan-kuo (彭權國) | Independent | 988 | 0.83% | |||||||
| 5 | April Yao | Kuomintang | 70,577 | 59.05% | |||||||
| Total voters | 179,706 | ||||||||||
| Valid votes | 119,518 | ||||||||||
| Invalid votes | |||||||||||
| Voter turnout | 66.51% | ||||||||||