Chung Tung-chin (; born 2 January 1963) is a Taiwanese politician. He was elected to the Miaoli County Council in 2014 and became its speaker in 2018. He vacated his council seat and leadership in 2022 to take office as magistrate of Miaoli County.

Political career

Chung was elected a Miaoli County Councilor in 2014 and became its speaker in 2018. During Chung's speakership, the Miaoli County Council in 2019 became the first county council in Taiwan to hold a full session in

Hakka The Hakka (), sometimes also referred to as Hakka-speaking Chinese, or Hakka Chinese, or Hakkas, are a southern Han Chinese subgroup whose principal settlements and ancestral homes are dispersed widely across the provinces of southern China ...

Miaoli County Magistrate

Chung ran as a

Kuomintang The Kuomintang (KMT) is a major political party in the Republic of China (Taiwan). It was the one party state, sole ruling party of the country Republic of China (1912-1949), during its rule from 1927 to 1949 in Mainland China until Retreat ...

(KMT) candidate for the 2022 Miaoli County magistrate election but did not receive the party's endorsement; the KMT nomination went to Hsieh Fu-hung () instead. Chung then registered as an independent candidate in June 2022 and was expelled from the KMT in September. During the election campaign, Chung promised to continue the incumbent magistrate Hsu Yao-chang's policies. He also promised to carry out the social welfare programs of the

Miaoli County Government The Miaoli County Government () is the local government of the Republic of China that governs Miaoli County Miaoli is a county (Taiwan), county in western Taiwan. Miaoli is bordered by Hsinchu County and Hsinchu City to the north, Taichung ...

, such as social housing, festival grants, free lunches for school students, etc. In October 2022,

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members affiliated with the

Democratic Progressive Party The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is a centre to centre-left Taiwanese nationalist political party in Taiwan. As the dominant party in the Pan-Green Coalition, one of the two main political camps in Taiwan, the DPP is currently the ...

petitioned the

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to investigate a statement of personal assets declared by Chung. That same month, Hsieh Fu-hung, the DPP, and the

New Power Party The New Power Party (NPP) is a political party in Taiwan formed in early 2015. The party emerged from the Sunflower Student Movement in 2014, and advocates for universal human rights, civil liberties, civil and political freedom, political libe ...

presented evidence indicating that Chung had been convicted of murder in 1987, and urged him to withdraw his candidacy. In December 2022, the Miaoli District Prosecutors Office began investigating Chung's campaign regarding allegations of vote buying; in turn, Chung accused the authorities of political bias. The Miaoli District Court rejected the allegations in July 2023, determining that Chung's supporters and campaign staff had given money to other candidates for local political office.

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Living people Magistrates of Miaoli County Expelled members of the Kuomintang 21st-century Taiwanese politicians 1963 births {{Taiwan-politician-stub