Chen Li-chen | |
Native Name Lang: | zh-tw |
Nationality: | Taiwanese |
Term Start1: | 22 May 2000 |
Term End1: | 20 December 2005 |
Predecessor1: | Chang Po-ya |
Successor1: | Huang Min-hui |
Birth Date: | 6 July 1958 |
Birth Place: | Jiali, Tainan, Taiwan |
Chen Li-chen (; born 6 July 1958) is a Taiwanese politician.
Chen graduated from Chinese Medicine University with a master's degree in environmental medicine.[1]
She began her political career working for the Chiayi City Environmental Protection Bureau and later the Department of Health.[1] In 1999, Chen was named deputy mayor of Chiayi under Chang Po-ya, who she succeeded in office when Chang was appointed to lead the interior ministry. Chen joined the Democratic Progressive Party in March 2003.[2]
She defeated Lee Chun-yi in a party primary, and the DPP backed Chen as its Chiayi mayoral candidate for the 2005 elections.[3] [4] She lost to Kuomintang candidate Huang Min-hui, who left the legislature to assume the mayoralty.[5] Chen then contested Huang's vacant legislative seat on behalf of the DPP, and lost to Chiang Yi-hsiung.[6]
2005 Chiayi City Mayoralty Election Result | |||||||||||
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width=35 | No. | width=180 | Candidate | width=120 | Party | width=75 | Votes | width=75 | Percentage | width=49 | |
1 | Chen Li-chen | DPP | 62,122 | 45.37% | |||||||
2 | Huang Min-hui | KMT | 74,786 | 54.63% | |||||||