| Yu Hao | |||||||||||||||||||
| Native Name Lang: | zh-tw | ||||||||||||||||||
| Honorific-Suffix: | MLY | ||||||||||||||||||
| Office1: | Member of the Legislative Yuan | ||||||||||||||||||
| Term Start1: | 1 February 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Predecessor1: | Frida Tsai | ||||||||||||||||||
| Constituency1: | Nantou County II | ||||||||||||||||||
| Office2: | Nantou County Councilor | ||||||||||||||||||
| Term Start2: | 25 December 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Term End2: | 31 January 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Constituency2: | District 4 (Lugu–Zhushan) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 1983 9, df=yes | ||||||||||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Zhushan, Nantou, Taiwan | ||||||||||||||||||
| Party: | Kuomintang | ||||||||||||||||||
| Alma Mater: | National Chung Cheng University National Cheng Kung University | ||||||||||||||||||
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Yu Hao (born 11 September 1983) is a Taiwanese politician. He served on the Nantou County Council from 2018 to 2024, when he was elected to the Legislative Yuan.
Yu Hao is a son of a police officer,[1] raised in a single-parent household.[2] He served in the 101st Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion,[2] and graduated from National Chung Cheng University and National Cheng Kung University.[3]
Yu represented the Kuomintang in the 2014 Taiwanese local elections, and was not elected to the Nantou County Council.[4] [5]
Yu opposed the removal of Hung Hsiu-chu as the Kuomintang's candidate for the 2016 presidential election.[6] [7] He continued to work for Hung during her tenure as Kuomintang leader.[8]
Yu contested the 2018 local elections, winning a seat on the Nantou County Council representing the multi-member fourth district.[9] He was the leading vote-getter in the same district during the 2022 election cycle.[1] [10] That same year, Yu was also elected to the Kuomintang's Central Standing Committee.[11]
Yu was considered a potential candidate for the 2023 Nantou by-election before the Kuomintang called in Lin Ming-chen.[12] [13] Yu won over 70,000 votes in the 2024 legislative election defeating incumbent Democratic Progressive Party legislator Frida Tsai and independent candidate Chen Kuei-yu in the Legislative Yuan's Nantou II constituency.[14] [15] His campaign was backed by Nantou magistrate Hsu Shu-hua and performed well in the townships of Lugu and Zhushan.[16] Yu also benefited from a split vote within the Pan-Green Coalition, as Chen had left the Democratic Progressive Party to mount an independent campaign.[17]
Yu married Huang Zi-chien on 31 January 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, their wedding ceremony was postponed to the following month.[18]