Cheng Yun-peng (; born 2 June 1973) is a Taiwanese politician politician. He was a member of the

Legislative Yuan The Legislative Yuan is the unicameral legislature of the Republic of China (Taiwan) located in Taipei. The Legislative Yuan is composed of 113 members, who are directly elected for 4-year terms by people of the Taiwan Area through a parallel ...

from 2005 to 2008, and elected to the office between 2016 and 2024.

Early career

Born in Taipei on

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, Cheng's father graduated from

National Cheng Kung University National Cheng Kung University (NCKU; ) is a public research university located in Tainan, Taiwan. The university is best known for engineering, computer science, medicine, and planning and design. As a top university in Taiwan, NCKU has played ...

and is a supporter of

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. Yun-peng is the second son of the family; he has a brother, Yun-hung. Cheng graduated from

National Taiwan University National Taiwan University (NTU; ) is a public research university in Taipei, Taiwan. The university was founded in 1928 during Taiwan under Japanese rule, Japanese rule as the seventh of the Imperial Universities. It was named Taihoku Imper ...

with a degree in Civil Engineering. When he was a junior, he campaigned with

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in the Taipei mayoral election. After his mandatory national service, he served as an assistant for

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, Member of the Legislative Yuan. After

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was elected Kaohsiung mayor, Cheng worked in Kaohsiung department of Labor. He briefly served as the Director of Promotion Department in the Democratic Progressive Party.

Political career

Cheng was elected as a Member of Legislative Yuan for

Taipei 1st district Taipei City Constituency I () includes all of Beitou and part of Shilin in northern Taipei. The district acquired its present boundaries since 2008, when all local constituencies of the Legislative Yuan were reorganized to become single-member d ...

in 2004. Cheng lost his primary to Kao Chien-chih in the 2008 election after his advertisement scandal. Cheng retired from politics and created a media company. Cheng returned to the Democratic Progressive Party in 2012. Cheng ran for a Legislative Yuan seat in Taoyuan 1st district in the 2016 election. He won a majority vote of 5,813, defeating five-term veteran Chen Ken-te. In August 2022, Cheng was named the Democratic Progressive Party candidate for the Taoyuan mayoralty, as

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's campaign ended due to .

Controversy

In 2005, Cheng was photographed attending a movie with

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or Chen Hsieh-ling. As Cheng was in a serious relationship at the time, he declared that he did not cheat on his girlfriend. Cheng was sentenced to six months in jail and three years of deprivation of political rights for a campaign advertising libel suit.恐喪失立委！
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Electoral record

Incumbents are in bold.

References

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