| Lu Shiow-yen | |
| Native Name Lang: | zh-tw |
| Order1: | 3rd |
| Office1: | Mayor of Taichung |
| Term Start1: | 25 December 2018 |
| Predecessor1: | Lin Chia-lung |
| Office2: | Member of the Legislative Yuan |
| Term Start2: | 1 February 2008 |
| Term End2: | 20 November 2018 |
| Constituency2: | Taichung 2→Taichung 5 |
| Successor2: | Shen Chih-hwei |
| Term Start3: | 1 February 1999 |
| Term End3: | 20 November 2008 |
| Constituency3: | Taichung |
| Birth Date: | 1961 8, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Anle District, Keelung City, Taiwan |
| Nationality: | Taiwan |
| Party: | Kuomintang |
| Spouse: | Liao Shu-chia |
| Children: | 2 |
| Alma Mater: | National Chengchi University (BA) Tamkang University (MA) |
| Mawards: | is not set --> |
Lu Shiow-yen (; born 31 August 1961) is a Taiwanese politician and former television presenter. She is the incumbent mayor of Taichung since 25 December 2018.[1]
Lu earned a bachelor's degree from National Chengchi University, followed by a master's degree at Tamkang University.[2] [3] She worked for Chinese Television System, and won a Golden Bell Award in 1990.[4] [5]
Prior to winning her first election to the Legislative Yuan in 1998, Lu served a single term on the Taiwan Provincial Consultative Council.[6] [7]
Lu resigned from the legislature in 20 November 2018 before the 2018 Taichung mayoral election,[8] in which she defeated incumbent Lin Chia-lung.[9]
| 2018 Kuomintang Taichung City mayoral primary results[10] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| width=80 | Candidates | width=80 | Place | width=80 | Results |
| Lu Shiow-yen | 50.308% | ||||
| Johnny Chiang | 2nd | 49.692% | |||
| 2018 Taichung City mayoral results[11] | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| width=35 | No. | width=150 | Candidate | width=120 | Party | width=75 | Votes | width=75 | Percentage | width=49 | |
| 1 | Song Yuan-tong (宋原通) | Independent | 15,919 | 1.09% | |||||||
| 2 | Lin Chia-lung | Democratic Progressive Party | 619,855 | 42.35% | |||||||
| 3 | Lu Shiow-yen | Kuomintang | 827,996 | 56.57% | |||||||
| Total voters | 2,213,789 | ||||||||||
| Valid votes | 1,463,770 | ||||||||||
| Invalid votes | |||||||||||
| Voter turnout | 66.12% | ||||||||||