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Apollo Chen
*Chen Shei-saint*
MLY
Apollo Chen; Chen Shei-saint MLY
陳學聖
Member of the Legislative Yuan
	In office; 1 February 2012 – 1 February 2020
Preceded by	Huang Jen-shu
Succeeded by	Lu Ming-che
Constituency	Taoyuan 3rd
	In office; 1 February 1999 – 31 January 2005
Constituency	Taipei 2nd
Personal details
Born	28 September 1957 (age 67); Taipei, Taiwan
Nationality	Republic of China
Political party	Kuomintang
Alma mater	National Taiwan University (BA); Tamkang University (MA)

Apollo Chen, also known as Chen Shei-saint (Chinese: 陳學聖; pinyin: Chén Xuéshèng; 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 [zh] 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 Hsu Ching-wen [zh] 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	Kuomintang	78,829	56.16%
2	Huang Min-hui	Kuomintang	46,341	33.02%
3	Lee Hsin	Kuomintang	7,604	5.42%
4	Apollo Chen	Kuomintang	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 Yang Li-huan [zh] 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%

2018 Taoyuan City mayoral results^[24]
No.	Candidate	Party	Votes	Percentage
1	Zhu Mei-xue (朱梅雪)	Independent	18,200	1.76%
2	Apollo Chen	Kuomintang	407,234	39.42%
3	Yang Li-huan (楊麗環)	Independent	51,518	4.99%
4	Wu Fu-tong (吳富彤)	Independent	3,867	0.37%
5	Cheng Wen-tsan	Democratic Progressive Party	552,330	53.46%
Total voters			1,732,591
Valid votes			1,033,149
Invalid votes
Voter turnout			59.63%

References

^ "Chen Shei-saint". Legislative Yuan. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
^ "Who's Who in the ROC II". 2002. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
^ Liu, Weiling (25 April 1997). "Pagers enter sanctum of Taipei classrooms". Taiwan Today. Archived from the original on 4 February 2016. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
^ Chen, Lauren (8 February 2000). "Secrets of the first wives' club". Taipei Times. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
^ Yu, Sen-lun (13 February 2000). "Watchdog group". Taipei Times. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
^ Huang, Kayla (September 2007). "When Construction and Archaeology Collide". Taiwan Panorama. Archived from the original on 29 March 2018. Retrieved 28 January 2016.
^ Huang, Kayla (September 2007). "Lost and Found--Exploring the Chienshan Archaeological Site". Taiwan Panorama. Retrieved 28 January 2016.
^ Shih, Sandra (9 May 2008). "More to glass than meets the eye at art exhibition". Taiwan Today. Archived from the original on 7 February 2016. Retrieved 28 January 2016.
^ Ko, Shu-ling (13 January 2010). "Deputy mayor quits KMT after candidacy kerfuffle". Taipei Times. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
^ "More setbacks for KMT in by-election defeats". China Post. 28 February 2010. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
^ "Latest election defeat seen as warning for KMT". China Post. 28 February 2010.
^ Pan, Jason (28 February 2014). "KMT suspends Apollo Chen for dissenting vote". Taipei Times. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
^ Kuo, Adam Tyrsett (28 February 2014). "Chen Shei-saint's KMT party rights revoked for one yr". China Post. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
^ "Runner-up demands recount". Taipei Times. 20 January 2016. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
^ Chin, Jonathan (28 January 2016). "Taoyuan recount confirms DPP victory". Taipei Times. Retrieved 28 January 2016.
^ Chiu, Chun-chin; Wu, Lilian (29 January 2016). "Vote recount maintains KMT candidate's victory in Taoyuan City". Central News Agency. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
^ "Taoyuan district recount sees no change of winner". Taipei Times. 30 January 2016. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
^ Hsu, Stacy (26 January 2016). "Hung shrugs off reports of KMT members quitting". Taipei Times. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
^ Wang, Cheng-chung; Tang, Pei-chun; Low, Y. F. (25 January 2016). "KMT Legislator Chen Shei-saint announces bid for party chair". Central News Agency. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
^ Hsu, Stacy (23 February 2016). "Four register for KMT chairman race". Taipei Times. Retrieved 23 February 2016.
^ Hsieh, Chia-chen; Low, Y.F. (26 February 2016). "Four qualified to run for KMT chairmanship". Retrieved 26 February 2016.
^ Hsiao, Alison (27 March 2016). "Hung elected KMT's first chairwoman". Taipei Times. Retrieved 27 March 2016.
^ Hsu, Stacy (29 March 2018). "Apollo Chen wins Taoyuan primary". Taipei Times. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
^ "2018 Local Elections". Archived from the original on 24 November 2018. Retrieved 26 November 2018.