| Tu Wen-ching | |
| Native Name Lang: | zh-tw |
| Office1: | Member of the Legislative Yuan |
| Constituency1: | Miaoli County |
| Term Start1: | 1 February 1999 |
| Term End1: | 31 January 2008 |
| Successor1: | Lee Yi-ting |
| Birth Date: | 30 October 1954 |
| Birth Place: | Yuanli, Miaoli County, Taiwan |
| Nationality: | Republic of China |
| Party: | Democratic Progressive Party |
Tu Wen-ching (; born 30 October 1954) is a Taiwanese politician.
Tu is a member of the Democratic Progressive Party, and has served on the party's Central Review Committee and Central Evaluation Committee.[1] [2]
He was elected to the Legislative Yuan for the first time in 1998, and reelected twice in 2001 and 2004.[3] In 2002, he and other DPP legislators accused Vincent Siew of fraud.[4] [5] In 2005, Tu called for the resignation of Economics Minister Ho Mei-yueh, whom he accused of not working enough to solve the flooding that had plagued Miaoli County.[6] [7] The next year, Tu gained media attention for berating a customs official who confiscated twenty cartons of cigarettes from him after Tu had returned from an overseas trip.[8] [9] Later that year, he was involved in a verbal altercation during Double Ten Day celebrations.[10] In 2007, the Kuomintang accused Tu of improperly profiting off land he had rented from the Taiwan Railways Administration to use as his campaign office.[11] In 2008, the KMT called for an investigation targeting Tu and eleven other politicians, including Liu Shen-liang, Wang Tuoh, and Lo Fu-chu for accepting donations from Wang You-theng.[12] Tu was listed as a controversial candidate by the Taiwan Competitiveness Forum prior to his 2008 campaign,[13] and lost his seat in the legislature in that election cycle to Lee Yi-ting.[14] He was elected the director of the Democratic Progressive Party's Miaoli County branch in May 2008.[15] He put his name forward for the 14 March 2009 by-election called after the annulment of Lee Yi-ting's electoral victory, and lost to Kang Shih-ju.[16] Tu ran as an independent in the local elections of 2009, and became the mayor of Yuanli, Miaoli.[17] During his mayoralty, the township discussed the construction of wind turbines in the area, and dealt with an instance of graffiti.[18] [19] He made another legislative run for Miaoli County Constituency 1 in 2016, and lost to Chen Chao-ming.[20] [21]