Hau Lung-bin

Hau Lung-pin 郝龍斌
Hau Lung-pin at Parade Festival of 2008 Taipei City New Year Countdown Party.
Mayor of Taipei
Incumbent
Assumed office  December 26, 2006
Preceded by	Ma Ying-Jeou
Born	August 22, 1952 (1952-08-22) (age 56) Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
Political party	Kuomintang

Hau Lung-pin (Chinese: 郝龍斌; pinyin: Hǎo Lóngbīn; born on August 22, 1952 in Taiwan with ancestral roots in Yancheng, Jiangsu, China) is a politician in the Republic of China (Taiwan) and is the current Mayor of Taipei. Hau is a member of the Kuomintang (KMT).

Biography

Hau, the son of former premier, General Hau Pei-tsun, left the Kuomintang in the early 1990s to join the New Party. He was elected as a legislator in 1995, and served until his appointment as chief of the central government's Environmental Protection Administration in 2001 under President Chen Shui-bian. He resigned from that position in 2003.

He was secretary-general of the Red Cross in Taiwan and rejoined the Kuomintang in January 2006.^[1]

On May 27, 2006, Hau was selected as the KMT's candidate for the Taipei mayoral election, winning 60% of the primary vote. He was subsequently elected Mayor of Taipei in the Republic of China municipal elections, 2006, defeating DPP candidate and former premier Frank Hsieh with 53.81% of the popular vote.^[2]

Electoral History

Taipei Mayoral Election 2007

No	Candidate	Party	Votes	%
1	Li Ao		7,795	0.61%
2	Clara Chou [3]		3,372	0.26%
3	Frank Hsieh		525,869	40.89%
4	James Soong[4]		53,281	4.14%
5	Hau Lung-pin		692,085	53.81%
6	Ke Tsi-hai 柯賜海		3,687	0.29%

References

1. ^ Taipei Times report
2. ^ Central Election Committee
3. ^ Despite Chou's expulsion from the Taiwan Solidarity Union on November 9, 2006, the Taiwan Solidarity Union cannot withdraw their recommendation for Chou under Republic of China's Public Officials Election and Recall Law. She would still contest the elections as a TSU candidate. (ETtoday Report)
4. ^ James Soong is Chairman of the People's First Party at the time of the elections, but entered the elections as an independent.

Government offices
Preceded by Ma Ying-jeou	Mayor of Taipei 2006 -	Succeeded by current incumbent

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