Yang Chiu-hsing | |
Native Name: | Chinese: 楊秋興 |
Office1: | Minister without Portfolio of the Executive Yuan |
Term Start1: | 6 February 2012[1] |
Term End1: | 2014 |
Office2: | Magistrate of Kaohsiung County |
Term Start2: | 20 December 2001 |
Term End2: | 25 December 2010 |
Predecessor2: | Yu Cheng-hsien |
Successor2: | Position abolished Chen Chu as Mayor of Kaohsiung |
Birth Date: | 1956 5, df=y |
Birth Place: | Yanchao, Kaohsiung, Taiwan |
Party: | Independent (2010–2013; since 2019) |
Otherparty: | Kuomintang (1975–1976; 2013–2019) Democratic Progressive Party (1987–2010) |
Alma Mater: | National Taiwan University |
Yang Chiu-hsing (; born 15 May 1956) is a Taiwanese politician. He was a Minister without Portfolio in the Executive Yuan and Magistrate of Kaohsiung County.[2] [3]
Yang was elected as the Magistrate of Kaohsiung County after winning the 2001 Kaohsiung magisterial election as a Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidate on 1 December 2001 and took office on 20 December 2001. He was reelected for ta second magisterial term after winning the 2005 Kaohsiung magisterial election under DPP on 3 December 2005 and took office on 20 December 2005.
On 27 November 2010, Yang joined Kaohsiung City Mayoralty election as independent candidate. However, he lost to incumbent Kaohsiung City Mayor Chen Chu, the Democratic Progressive Party candidate.
Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | ||||
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Independent | 1 | Yang Chiu-hsing | 414,950 | 26.68% | |||
Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party) | 2 | Huang Chao-shun | 319,171 | 20.52% | |||
Democratic Progressive Party | 3 | Chen Chu | 821,089 | 52.80% | | ||
Total | 1,555,210 | align=right colspan=2 | 100.00% | ||||
Voter turnout | 72.52% |
On 29 November 2014, Yang joined Kaohsiung City mayoralty election as Kuomintang candidate for Mayor of Kaohsiung position, going against his rival incumbent Mayor Chen Chu of DPP.[4] He however lost to Chen.
2014 Kaohsiung City Mayoralty Election Result | |||||||||||
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width=35 | No. | width=180 | Candidate | width=120 | Party | width=75 | Votes | width=75 | Percentage | width=49 | |
1 | Chou Ko-sheng (周可盛) | Independent | 14,925 | 1.02% | |||||||
2 | Chen Chu | DPP | 993,300 | 68.09% | |||||||
3 | Yang Chiu-hsing | KMT | 450,647 | 30.89% | |||||||