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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Family name hatnote Шаблон:Infobox officeholder Apollo Chen, also known as Chen Shei-saint (Шаблон:Zh; born 28 September 1957) is a Taiwanese journalist and politician.

Education and early career

Born in Taipei, Chen attended Jianguo High School, and earned a bachelor's degree in political science from National Taiwan University, followed by a master's in Chinese studies at Tamkang University. He wrote for the China Daily News and China Times and was also a television anchor on Asia Television.[1]

Political career

Chen served on the Taipei City Council from 1991 to 1998.[2][3] His first stint in the Legislative Yuan began the next year and lasted until 2005. Chen was the spokesman of Lien Chan's 2000 presidential campaign.[4][5] In between legislative stints, he was the director of the Taoyuan County Cultural Affairs Bureau.[6][7][8] Chen, backed by the Kuomintang,[9] ran for the legislature again in the Taoyuan County by-election of 2010, losing to Huang Jen-shu by approximately 3,000 votes.[10][11] He returned to the legislature in 2012. In 2014, Chen was suspended from the Kuomintang for casting a vote against the Land Administration Agent Act.[12] However, the censure did not prevent him from running for reelection in 2016, which he won.[13] It was initially reported that Chen had defeated Шаблон:Interlanguage link multi by 390 votes.[14][15] A recount by the Taoyuan District Court revealed that Chen had won by 389 votes.[16][17]

2016 KMT chairmanship election

His party's presidential candidate, Eric Chu, was not successful and subsequently resigned the KMT chairmanship. Chen declared his interest in the position a few days after Chu's resignation was finalized.[18][19] On 22 February, Chen submitted a petition of 24,179 signatures to the party committee responsible for overseeing elections.[20] The party confirmed 10,710 of those signatures, validating his candidacy.[21] Chen finished fourth in the election, which was won by Hung Hsiu-chu.[22]

2016 Kuomintang chairmanship election
No. Candidate Party Votes Percentage Result
1 Hung Hsiu-chu Шаблон:KMT 78,829 56.16% Файл:Vote1.svg
2 Huang Min-hui Шаблон:KMT 46,341 33.02%
3 Lee Hsin Шаблон:KMT 7,604 5.42%
4 Apollo Chen Шаблон:KMT 6,784 4.83%
Total votes  337,351
Turnout  41.61%

2018 Taoyuan mayor election

In March 2018, the Kuomintang announced that Chen had defeated Lu Ming-che and Шаблон:Interlanguage link in a primary held to decide the party's candidate in the Taoyuan mayoral election.[23]

2018 Kuomintang Taoyuan City mayoral primary results
Candidates Place Results
Apollo Chen Nominated 35.689%
Lu Ming-zhe 2nd 33.067%
Yang Li-huan 3rd 31.245%
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2018 Taoyuan mayor election result
2018 Taoyuan City mayoral results[24]
No. Candidate Party Votes Percentage
1 Zhu Mei-xue (朱梅雪) Файл:Independent candidate icon (TW).svg Independent 18,200 1.76%
2 Apollo Chen Файл:Emblem of the Kuomintang.svg Kuomintang 407,234 39.42%
3 Yang Li-huan (楊麗環) Файл:Independent candidate icon (TW).svg Independent 51,518 4.99%
4 Wu Fu-tong (吳富彤) Файл:Independent candidate icon (TW).svg Independent 3,867 0.37%
5 Cheng Wen-tsan Democratic Progressive Party 552,330 53.46% Файл:Vote1.svg
Total voters  1,732,591
Valid votes  1,033,149
Invalid votes  
Voter turnout  59.63%

References

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External links

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