| Timothy Wang Wang Ting-son | |
| Native Name Lang: | zh-tw |
| Office1: | Member of the Legislative Yuan |
| Term Start1: | 8 March 2010 |
| Term End1: | 31 January 2016 |
| Predecessor1: | Fu Kun-chi |
| Successor1: | Hsiao Bi-khim |
| Birth Date: | 1962 5, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Hualien County, Taiwan |
| Party: | Kuomintang |
| Father: | Wang Ching-feng |
| Alma Mater: | Soochow University George Washington University |
Wang Ting-son (; born 30 June 1965) or Timothy Wang is a Taiwanese politician who served in the Legislative Yuan from 2010 to 2016.
Wang Ting-son's father Wang Ching-feng served as the magistrate of Hualien County between 1993 and 2001.[1] [2] The younger Wang studied mathematics at Soochow University before attending George Washington University in the United States, where he earned a master's and doctoral degree in international business.[3] [4] Wang returned to Taiwan, joining the National Dong Hwa University faculty.[5]
Wang held several posts within the Kuomintang before he was nominated to contest a by-election scheduled for 27 February 2010,[6] [7] to replace outgoing legislator Fu Kun-chi. Ma Ying-jeou made several appearances at Wang's campaign events,[8] [9] as did King Pu-tsung.[10] Wang faced Democratic Progressive Party candidate Hsiao Bi-khim and independent Shih Sheng-liang.[11] [12] Five days before the election, Wang led Hsiao by thirteen percentage points,[13] and eventually defeated her by approximately six thousand votes,[14] a margin that the Taipei Times considered "narrow" due to Fu Kun-chi's strong influence in Hualien.[15] The Kuomintang renominated Wang for the 2012 legislative elections,[16] and he retained the Hualien County district seat contested by DPP candidate Lie Kuen-cheng.[17] Wang sought reelection to the legislature in 2016, but lost to Hsiao Bi-khim, his political opponent in 2010.[18]