| Lin Yu-fang | |
| Native Name Lang: | zh-tw |
| Office: | Member of the Legislative Yuan |
| Predecessor: | multi-member constituency |
| Successor: | Freddy Lim |
| Term Start: | 1 February 2008 |
| Term End: | 31 January 2016 |
| Constituency: | Taipei 5 |
| Predecessor1: | multi-member constituency |
| Successor1: | multi-member constituency |
| Term Start1: | 1 February 2002 |
| Term End1: | 31 January 2008 |
| Constituency1: | Taipei 2 |
| Term Start2: | 1 February 1996 |
| Term End2: | 31 January 1999 |
| Constituency2: | Republic of China (New Party party-list) |
| Birth Date: | 1951 3, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Shanlin, Kaohsiung County, Taiwan |
| Nationality: | Republic of China |
| Party: | Kuomintang (since 2006) |
| Otherparty: | New Party (1993–2000) People First Party (2000–2006) |
| Education: | Doctoral degree |
| Alma Mater: | Tamkang University University of Virginia |
Lin Yu-fang (; born 15 March 1951) is a Taiwanese politician. Lin was a Kuomintang legislator from 2008 to 2016 and the chairman of the Legislative Yuan's Diplomacy and National Defense Committee.[1] [2]
Lin obtained his bachelor's and master's degrees in English literature and American Studies, respectively, from Tamkang University and doctoral degree in international politics from University of Virginia in the United States.
Lin was elected to the Legislative Yuan for the first time in 1995, via the Chinese New Party's party list.[3] He represented Taipei 2, for two terms from 2002 to 2008, first for the People First Party, before switching to the Kuomintang.[4] [5] Lin then won two elections from the single-member Taipei 5 constituency, serving through 2016.[6] [7]
| No. | Candidate | Party | Votes | Ratio | Elected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ye Mei (葉玫) | Home Party | 324 | 0.22% | ||
| 2 | Wu Jian Yi (吳建毅) | Taiwan Farmers' Party | 251 | 0.17% | ||
| 3 | Wei Jhih Jhong (魏志中) | Independent | 284 | 0.19% | ||
| 4 | Lin Yu-fang | Kuomintang | 87,448 | 58.23% | ||
| 5 | Huang Ci Bin (黃啟彬) | Taiwan Constitution Association | 360 | 0.24% | ||
| 6 | Tuan Yi-kang | Democratic Progressive Party | 61,480 | 40.95% |
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Percentage | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Freddy Lim | 林昶佐 | New Power Party | 82,650 | 49.52% | |||
| Lin Yu-fang | 林郁方 | Kuomintang | 76,079 | 45.58% | |||
| You Jui-min | 尤瑞敏 | Trees Party | 4,506 | 2.69% | |||
| Kung Wei-lun | 龔偉綸 | Independent | 1,710 | 1.02% | |||
| Li Chia-hsin | 李家幸 | Taiwan Independence Party | 885 | 0.53% | |||
| Huang Fu-liao | 黃福卿 | Independent | 587 | 0.35% | |||
| Hung Hsien-cheng | 洪顯政 | Constitutional Conventions of Taiwan | 478 | 0.28% | |||
| Source | Total | 166,895 | 100% | ||||