April Yao

April Yao Yao Ching-ling
饒慶鈴
Official portrait, 2018

13th Magistrate of Taitung
Incumbent
Assumed office 25 December 2018
Preceded by	Justin Huang

Personal details
Born	(1969-11-23) 23 November 1969 (age 55) Taitung County, Taiwan
Political party	Kuomintang
Alma mater	National Taiwan Normal University (BA, PhD)

April Yao (Chinese: 饒慶鈴; pinyin: Ráo Qìnglíng; born 23 November 1969) is a Taiwanese politician who is currently serving as magistrate of Taitung County.

Education

Yao obtained her doctoral degree from National Taiwan Normal University in political science.^[1]

Political career

Yao was elected to the Taitung County Council after winning the local election on 3 December 2005, making her the youngest councilor to be elected at the age of 36. In 2010, she was elected as the speaker of the county council.^[1]

While serving on the county council, Yao explored bids for higher office, contesting Kuang Li-chen for the Taitung magistracy in 2009,^[2] and a seat on the Legislative Yuan in 2012.^[3] In 2016, Yao was appointed a deputy secretary-general of the Kuomintang, under chairwoman Hung Hsiu-chu.^[4]^[5]

2018 Taitung County magistrate election

Yao defeated Liao Kuo-tung in a Kuomintang primary and subsequently received her party's nomination to contest the Taitung magistracy in 2018.^[6]^[7]

2018 Kuomintang Taitung County magistrate primary results
Candidates	Place	Results
April Yao	Nominated	Results not released
Liao Kuo-tung	2nd	Results not released

She faced Democratic Progressive Party challenger Liu Chao-hao and three independent candidates, including former county commissioner Kuang Li-chen.^[8]^[9] Yao won the magisterial election held on 24 November 2018.^[1]^[10]

2018 Taitung County mayoral results
No.	Candidate	Party	Votes	Percentage
1	Kuang Li-chen	Independent	3,049	2.55%
2	Liu Chao-hao (劉櫂豪)	Democratic Progressive Party	44,264	37.04%
3	Huang Yu-pin (黃裕斌)	Independent	640	0.54%
4	Peng Chuan-kuo (彭權國)	Independent	988	0.83%
5	April Yao	Kuomintang	70,577	59.05%
Total voters			179,706
Valid votes			119,518
Invalid votes
Voter turnout			66.51%

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Cheng, Sabine; Lin, Ko (24 November 2018). "KMT's Yao Ching-ling wins Taitung County magistrate race". Central News Agency. Retrieved 25 November 2018.
^ Hsu, Jenny W.; Mo, Yan-chih (3 April 2009). "DPP rift over Tainan poll grows". Taipei Times. Retrieved 25 November 2018.
^ Wang, Yu-chung (9 January 2012). "PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK: KMT candidates keep distance". Taipei Times. Retrieved 25 November 2018.
^ Hsu, Stacy (6 April 2016). "Hung lists likely candidates for important posts". Taipei Times. Retrieved 25 November 2018.
^ Hsu, Stacy (7 April 2016). "Minister shrugs off KMT posting rumor". Taipei Times. Retrieved 25 November 2018.
^ Chung, Jake (21 December 2017). "KMT names candidates in local elections". Taipei Times. Retrieved 25 November 2018.
^ Hsu, Stacy (22 February 2018). "Chang Hsien-yao announces Taipei bid". Taipei Times. Retrieved 25 November 2018.
^ Lin, Chia-nan (21 November 2018). "2018 ELECTIONS: Two Taitung candidates sign petition on wetlands". Taipei Times. Retrieved 25 November 2018.
^ Huang, Ming-tang (2 September 2018). "Taitung candidate says surprise opponent DPP 'ploy'". Taipei Times. Retrieved 25 November 2018.
^ Hsu, Stacy; Lin, Sean; Lee, I-chia (25 November 2018). "2018 ELECTIONS: Lai offers to resign as DPP routed". Taipei Times. Retrieved 25 November 2018.

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Political offices
Preceded by Justin Huang	Magistrate of Taitung County 2018–present	Incumbent

Heads of governments of special municipalities, counties and provincial cities in Taiwan

Mayors of special municipalities	Magistrates of counties	Mayors of cities
New Taipei (list): Hou Yu-ih (KMT) Taipei (list): Chiang Wan-an (KMT) Taoyuan (list): Chang San-cheng (KMT) Taichung (list): Lu Shiow-yen (KMT) Tainan (list): Huang Wei-che (DPP) Kaohsiung (list): Chen Chi-mai (DPP)	Yilan (list): Lin Mao-sheng (Ind.) Hsinchu (list): Yang Wen-ke (KMT) Miaoli (list): Chung Tung-chin (Ind.) Changhua (list): Wang Huei-mei (KMT) Nantou (list): Hsu Shu-hua (KMT) Yunlin (list): Chang Li-shan (KMT) Chiayi (list): Weng Chang-liang (DPP) Pingtung (list): Chou Chun-mi (DPP) Taitung (list): April Yao (KMT) Hualien (list): Hsu Chen-wei (KMT) Penghu (list): Chen Kuang-fu (DPP) Kinmen (list): Chen Fu-hai (TPP) Lienchiang (list): Wang Chung-ming (KMT)	Keelung (list): George Hsieh (KMT) Hsinchu (list): Andy Chiu (TPP) Chiayi (list): Huang Min-hui (KMT)

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