Chen Hsueh-sheng

In this Chinese name, the family name is Chen.

This article is about the legislator of Lienchiang County. For the former legislator of Taoyuan City Constituency III, see Apollo Chen.

Chen Hsueh-sheng (Chinese: 陳雪生; pinyin: Chén Xuěshēng; Wade–Giles: Chʻên² Hsüeh³-shêng¹; Foochow Romanized: Dìng Siók-sĕng; born 1 January 1952) is a Taiwanese politician. He was the Magistrate of Lienchiang County from 2001 to 2009, and has represented Lienchiang County in the Legislative Yuan since 2012.

Chen Hsueh-sheng MLY
陳雪生
Member of the Legislative Yuan
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 February 2012
Preceded by	Tsao Erh-chung
Constituency	Lienchiang County
Magistrate of Lienchiang County
In office 20 December 2001 – 20 December 2009
Preceded by	Liu Li-chun
Succeeded by	Yang Sui-sheng
Personal details
Born	(1952-01-01) 1 January 1952 (age 73) Juguang, Lienchiang, Fujian, Republic of China
Nationality	Republic of China
Political party	Kuomintang (2008–2011, 2015–) People First Party (2000–2008)

Education

Chen studied at National Feng Yuan Commercial High School.^[1][2]

Political career

Chen won the 2001 Lienchiang County magistracy election on 1 December 2001 as a People First Party candidate and took office on 20 December 2001.^[3] He was reelected in 2005 and began his second term on 20 December 2005. He contested the 2012 legislative elections as an independent and became a representative of Lienchiang County.^[4]

2012 Republic of China legislative election[5][6]
No.	Candidate	Party	Votes	Percentage
1	Chen Hsueh-sheng	Independent	2,528	49.99%
2	Tsao Erh-chung	Kuomintang	2,361	46.69%
3	Chen Tsai-neng	Independent	168	3.32%
Eligible voters			7,772
Total votes			5,156
Valid votes			5,057
Invalid votes			99
Voter turnout			66.34%

He was to rejoin the PFP in 2016 if the Kuomintang lost that year's presidential election,^[7] but instead sought Kuomintang membership outright in 2015.^[8]

2016 Republic of China legislative election[9][10]
No.	Candidate	Party	Votes	Percentage
1	Chen Hsueh-sheng	Kuomintang	2,927	68.07%
2	Lin Jin-kuan	Independent	760	17.67%
3	Su Po-hao	Trees Party	506	11.77%
4	Chang Chun-pao	Chinese Unification Promotion Party	107	2.49%
Eligible voters			9,921
Total votes			4,438
Valid votes			4,300
Invalid votes			138
Voter turnout			44.73%