| John Wu | |
| Honorific-Suffix: | MLY |
| Nationality: | Republic of China |
| Office: | Commissioner of the Chinese Professional Baseball League |
| Term Start: | 4 February 2015 |
| Term End: | 16 January 2019 |
| Predecessor: | Hsieh Chih-peng (acting) Huang Chen-tai |
| Successor: | Tsai Chi-chang |
| Order1: | Member of the Legislative Yuan |
| Constituency1: | Party-list |
| Term Start1: | 1 February 2016 |
| Term End1: | 31 January 2020 |
| Term Start2: | 1 February 2005 |
| Term End2: | 20 December 2009 |
| Constituency2: | Taoyuan Taoyuan 3rd (after 2008) |
| Successor2: | Huang Jen-shu |
| Office3: | Magistrate of Taoyuan County |
| Deputy3: | Lee Chao-chih, Huang Hung-pin[1] Ye Shi-wen, Huang Hung-pin[2] Huang Hung-pin[3] |
| Term Start3: | 20 December 2009 |
| Term End3: | 25 December 2014 |
| Predecessor3: | Eric Chu Huang Min-kon (acting) |
| Successor3: | Position abolished; Cheng Wen-tsan as mayor of new municipality |
| Birth Date: | 8 February 1969 |
| Birth Place: | Zhongli City, Taoyuan County (now Zhongli District, Taoyuan City), Taiwan |
| Party: | Kuomintang |
| Relations: | Wu Po-hsiung (father)[4] |
| Alma Mater: | National Taiwan University Harvard University |
John Wu or Wu Chih-yang (; born 8 February 1969) is a Taiwanese politician. He was the Magistrate of Taoyuan County from 2009 to 2014.[5] [6] Wu was the former Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) commissioner.[7]
Wu obtained his bachelor's and master's degree in law from National Taiwan University. He then obtained another law degree from Harvard University in the United States.[8]
Wu was elected Magistrate of Taoyuan County on 5 December 2009 defeating Cheng Wen-tsan in the 2009 magisterial election as a Kuomintang candidate.[9] He assumed the office on 20 December 2009.
| 2009 Taoyuan County Magistrate Election Result | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | ||
| 1 | Hakka Party | Wu Futong (吳富彤) | 15,087 | 2.08% | ||
| 2 | DPP | Cheng Wen-tsan | 346,678 | 45.69% | ||
| 3 | KMT | John Wu | 396,237 | 52.22% | ||
In July 2014, it was announced that Taoyuan County would be renamed Taoyuan and reclassified as a special municipality by the end of the year. The county-administered city, known officially as Taoyuan City, was to be renamed Taoyuan District.[10] [11]
Shortly before the reclassification of Taoyuan County as a special municipality, Wu ran for the Taoyuan mayoralty in the 2014 Taiwanese local elections, again facing Cheng Wen-tsan, and lost.[12]
| 2014 Taoyuan City Mayoralty Election Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| width=35 | No. | width=180 | Candidate | width=120 | Party | width=75 | Votes | width=75 | Percentage | width=49 | |
| 1 | Cheng Wen-tsan | DPP | 492,414 | 51.00% | |||||||
| 2 | John Wu | KMT | 463,133 | 47.97% | |||||||
| 3 | Hsu Jiu-chih (許睿智) | Independent | 9,943 | 1.03% | |||||||
Wu became the commissioner of Taiwan's Chinese Professional Baseball League in 2015, and was reelected in 2017 with unanimous support.[13] During Wu's term, he further expanded CPBL from four teams to five teams, with the addition of Wei Chuan Dragons.[14] As Wu's term ended, Tsai Chi-chang became Wu's successor as CPBL commissioner in January 2021.[15] [16] [17]