| Yen Kuan-heng | |
| Native Name Lang: | zh-tw |
| Honorific-Suffix: | MLY |
| Smallimage: | Dajia Jenn Jann Temple from VOA (2) (cropped).jpg |
| Office1: | Member of the Legislative Yuan |
| Term Start1: | 1 February 2024 |
| Predecessor1: | Lin Ching-yi |
| Constituency1: | Taichung II |
| Term Start2: | 1 February 2013 |
| Term End2: | 31 January 2020 |
| Constituency2: | Taichung II |
| Predecessor2: | Yen Ching-piao |
| Birth Date: | 1977 9, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Shalu, Taichung, Taiwan |
| Education: | (MBA) |
| Parents: | Yen Ching-piao (father) |
| Relatives: | Yen Li-ming (sister) |
| Nationality: | Republic of China |
| Occupation: | politician |
Yen Kuan-heng (; born 14 September 1977) is a Taiwanese politician. He was elected to the Legislative Yuan from Taichung in 2013, to replace his father Yen Ching-piao in office. Yen lost reelection to Chen Po-wei in 2020, and returned to office in 2024.
Yen Kuan-heng helped run his father's first legislative campaign in 2001,[1] and worked as the elder Yen's legislative assistant.[2] Yen Ching-piao was sentenced to prison in November 2012 and expelled from the Legislative Yuan, necessitating a by-election for Taichung 2.[3] [4] was named the Democratic Progressive Party candidate days before the Kuomintang announced its support of Yen Kuan-heng.[5] [6] The by-election was held on 26 January 2013, with Yen winning by 1,138 votes.[7] [8] The Kuomintang nominated Yen for a second term over fellow party member in the 2016 legislative elections, and Yen won again.[9] In March 2016, Yen joined the Parliamentary Transparency Alliance, a smaller group of Kuomintang legislators within the Ninth Legislative Yuan.[10] Yen narrowly lost reelection to Taiwan Statebuilding Party candidate Chen Po-wei in 2020.[11] Following a successful bid to in October 2021, a by-election was scheduled for 9 January 2022.[12] The Kuomintang formally nominated Yen as its candidate for the by-election on 9 November 2021.[13] French-born Taiwanese director Jean-Robert Thomann filmed the documentary Taiwan, Chronicle of a Threatened Democracy, about the by-election, which Yen lost to Lin Ching-yi.[14] Yen unseated Lin in the 2024 legislative election.[15]
During the 2021 by-election, Yen was investigated by the Taichung District Prosecutor’s Office, which found that his house in Shalu District was illegally built on state-owned land.[16] The resulting probe additionally discovered that Yen had illicitly received NT$1.08 million in public funds, by having Lin Chin-fu claim to be Yen's legislative aide.[17] In July 2024, the Taichung District Court found that Yen violated Article V of the Anti-Corruption Act, and was guilty of forgery, and sentenced him to a combined prison term of eight years and four months.[18]