Hsu Hsin-ying (; born 23 April 1972) is a Taiwanese politician and engineer. Prior to joining the

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) 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

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descent. She graduated from

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, where she played basketball, softball and athletics. She graduated from

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with a bachelor's degree in engineering and earned a master's degree and Ph.D. in the field from

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and began work as a researcher for the

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. 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 Minghsin University of Science and Technology (MUST; ) is a private university in Xinfeng Township, Hsinchu County, Taiwan. History I. Industrial Junior College Period MUST was founded in 1966 that was known as Ming Hsin Engineering College (M ...

Political career

Political beginnings

Hsu first ran for office in 2005, for a position on the

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, for which she was defeated. She organized a bid for the

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in 2008, resulting in the same outcome. After joining the Kuomintang in 2009, she won and served on the county council, before winning a Legislative Yuan seat in the

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as a member of the Kuomintang. In that election, Hsu won 171,466 votes, the most of any one candidate that year. Hsu was reelected to the KMT's Central Standing Committee in August 2014, but did not serve a full one-year term. Instead, she split from the party in January 2015, and founded the Minkuotang (MKT) in March, serving as the MKT's first chair.

2016 campaigns

Hsu ran for reelection in Hsinchu County until People First Party chairman

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named her the vice presidential candidate for his 2016 presidential campaign in November 2015. The PFP–MKT coalition finished third in the

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and the MKT lost its only seat in the Legislative Yuan.

Later political career

Hsu contested the Hsinchu County magistracy in 2018. She finished second of four candidates, with 32.29% of the vote. Following her loss to

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, Hsu resigned the Minkuotang leadership on 29 November 2018, and the party merged into the Congress Party Alliance on 25 January 2019. Hsu rejoined the Kuomintang in May 2022, and began her Hsinchu County legislative campaign in March 2023. She was reelected in the January 2024 legislative election.

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