| Liu Wen-hsiung | |
| Native Name Lang: | zh-tw |
| Smallimage: | Liu Wen-hsiung (cropped).jpg |
| Order: | Member of the Legislative Yuan |
| Term Start: | 1 February 2005 |
| Term End: | 31 January 2008 |
| Constituency: | Republic of China |
| Term Start1: | 1 February 1999 |
| Term End1: | 31 January 2005 |
| Constituency1: | Keelung |
| Alma Mater: | National Chengchi University National Taiwan Ocean University |
| Birth Date: | 1954 9, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Keelung, Taiwan |
| Death Place: | Anle, Keelung, Taiwan |
Liu Wen-hsiung (; 8 September 1954 – 31 July 2017) was a Taiwanese politician who served in the Legislative Yuan from 1999 to 2008.
Liu was born in Keelung in 1954,[1] and was of Mainland Chinese descent.[2] He attended National Chengchi University before completing graduate work at National Taiwan Ocean University.[3]
Liu served two terms on the Taiwan Provincial Council before his 1998 election to the Legislative Yuan.[4] The Kuomintang formally began expulsion proceedings against Liu in December 1999, because he supported the 2000 independent presidential campaign of James Soong.[5] Liu later joined Soong's People First Party, and was the PFP's legislative whip.[6] [7] On 3 December 2005, he joined the Republic of China local election for the Keelung City mayoralty.[8] [9] However, he finished in third place.[10]
| 2005 Keelung City Mayoralty Election result | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| width=35 | No. | width=180 | Candidate | width=120 | Party | width=75 | Votes | width=49 | |
| 1 | Chen Chien-ming | TSU | " align="right" | 58,243 | |||||
| 2 | Hsu Tsai-li | KMT | " align="right" | 76,162 | |||||
| 3 | Liu Wen-hsiung | PFP | " align="right" | 47,932 | |||||
| 4 | Wang Tuoh | DPP | " align="right" | 2,771 | |||||
In 2006, Liu accused Kuo Yao-chi, then the Minister of Transportation and Communications, of appointing Wu Cheng-chih, a friend who was recommended by her husband, to the secretary-general position of the China Aviation Development Foundation as a form of nepotism; Liu said that Weng did not have the proper aviation background. Kuo said that she did not practice nepotism and that she would seek to have action taken against Liu.[11] The next year, Liu ran in the Keelung mayoral by-election and was a reported candidate for the Control Yuan.[12] [13] Liu later became deputy secretary-general of the People First Party.[14] [15] Liu ran in the 2016 legislative elections as a representative of Keelung district, but lost.[16]
In 2017, he was formally nominated to a seat on the Control Yuan.[17]
Liu was a Taiwanese Muslim.[18] He suffered a heart attack in July 2017, which led to a coma.[19] He was moved to Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in Keelung on 21 July, where he died on 31 July 2017, aged 62.[20] His body was sent to Taipei Grand Mosque where funeral prayer was performed before he was buried.[21]