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Hsu Hsin-ying
Hsu Hsin-ying
徐欣瑩
Member of the Legislative Yuan
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 1 February 2024
Preceded by	Lin Wei-chou
Constituency	Hsinchu County 1
	In office; 1 February 2012 – 31 January 2016
Preceded by	Perng Shaw-jiin
Succeeded by	Lin Wei-chou
Constituency	Hsinchu County
Chairperson of the Minkuotang
	In office; 13 March 2015 – 29 November 2018
Preceded by	position established
Succeeded by	Wu Hsu-chih [zh]
Vice Chairperson of the Congress Party Alliance
	In office; 10 June 2019 – 31 March 2020
Preceded by	Tsai Hau
Succeeded by	position abolished
Personal details
Born	23 April 1972 (age 52); Xinfeng, Hsinchu County, Taiwan
Political party	Kuomintang (2009–2015; since 2022)
Other political; affiliations	Independent (before 2009); Minkuotang (2015–2019); Congress Party Alliance (2019–2020)
Alma mater	National Cheng Kung University (BS); National Chiao Tung University (MS, PhD)

Hsu Hsin-ying (Chinese: 徐欣瑩; pinyin: Xú Xīnyíng; born 23 April 1972) is a Taiwanese politician. Prior to joining the Kuomintang (KMT) in 2009, Hsu was an independent. She left the KMT to found the Minkuotang (MKT) in 2015. In 2019, the MKT was absorbed by the Congress Party Alliance. Hsu rejoined the Kuomintang in 2022, and was reelected in the 2024 legislative election.

Early life, education, and career

Hsu is of Hakka descent.^[1]

Hsu graduated from Taipei Municipal Zhongshan Girls High School, where she played basketball, softball and athletics.^[2] She attended National Cheng Kung University to study engineering. Hsu then obtained a masters and doctorate in the field from National Chiao Tung University and began work as a researcher for the Ministry of the Interior. She then moved to the private sector, joining the Da Shi Dai Surveying and Construction Consulting Company. She also taught at Minghsin University of Science and Technology.^[3]

Political career

Political beginnings

Hsu first ran for office in 2005, for a position on the Hsinchu County Council, for which she was defeated.^[4] She organized a bid for the Legislative Yuan in 2008, resulting in the same outcome.^[5] After joining the Kuomintang in 2009, she won and served on the county council,^[4] before winning a Legislative Yuan seat in the 2012 elections as a member of the Kuomintang. In that election, Hsu won 171,466 votes,^[6] the most of any one candidate that year.^[7]^[8] Hsu was reelected to the KMT's Central Standing Committee in August 2014, but did not serve a full one-year term.^[9] Instead, she split from the party in January 2015,^[10] and founded the Minkuotang (MKT) in March, serving as the MKT's first chair.^[11]

2016 campaigns

Hsu ran for reelection in Hsinchu County until People First Party chairman James Soong named her the vice presidential candidate for his 2016 presidential campaign in November 2015.^[12]^[13]^[14] The PFP–MKT coalition finished third in the presidential election and the MKT lost its only seat in the Legislative Yuan.

Later political career

Hsu contested the Hsinchu County magistracy in 2018.^[15]^[16] She finished second of four candidates, with 32.29% of the vote.^[17]

Following her loss to Yang Wen-ke, Hsu resigned the Minkuotang leadership on 29 November 2018,^[18] and the party merged into the Congress Party Alliance on 25 January 2019.^[19]

Hsu rejoined the Kuomintang in May 2022,^[20] and began her Hsinchu County legislative campaign in March 2023.^[21]^[22] She was reelected in the January 2024 legislative election.^[23]^[24]

References

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^ Liu, Kay (3 December 2023). "ELECTION 2024/Scenes from the campaign trail: A busy Sunday for main political parties". Central News Agency. Retrieved 4 December 2023. The KMT chairman then traveled to neighboring Hsinchu County to campaign for the party's legislative candidate Hsu Hsin-ying (徐欣瑩), who served one term between 2012 and 2016, when the county only had one seat in the Legislature.
^ Huang, Ching-yi; Hetherington, William (8 April 2024). "KMT calls for child abuse death penalty amendment". Taipei Times. Retrieved 13 October 2024.
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