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Weng Chang-liang
翁章梁
Official portrait, 2018

13th Magistrate of Chiayi
Incumbent
Assumed office 25 December 2018
Deputy	See list Wu Jung-hui Liu Pei-tung
Preceded by	Helen Chang
Deputy Minister of the Council of Agriculture
In office 20 May 2016 – 8 February 2017
Minister	Tsao Chi-hung

Personal details
Born	(1965-05-28) 28 May 1965 (age 59) Yizhu, Chiayi County, Taiwan
Political party	Democratic Progressive Party
Education	Chung Yuan Christian University Nanhua University

Weng Chang-liang (Chinese: 翁章梁; pinyin: Wēng Zhāngliáng; born 28 May 1965) is a Taiwanese politician who is the current magistrate of Chiayi County, serving since 25 December 2018.

Early life and education

Born in Yizhu, Chiayi County, Weng attended Chiayi Senior High School, Chung Yuan Christian University, and Nanhua University. He was active in the Wild Lily student movement.^[1]

Political career

Weng worked for the Chiayi County Government before he served as deputy minister of Council of Agriculture under Tsao Chi-hung in 2016.^[2]^[3] Weng left the post and began campaigning to represent the Democratic Progressive Party in the 2018 Chiayi magisterial election, registering for the party primary in January 2018.^[4] In March, he defeated Chiayi County Council speaker Chang Ming-ta in the primary.^[2]^[5]

In the general election, Weng won 51% of the vote to defeat Kuomintang candidate Wu Yu-jen.

2018 Democratic Progressive Party Chiayi County magistrate primary results
Candidates	Place	Focus Survey Research	Shih Shin	Real Survey	Aggregated Result
Weng Chang-liang	Nominated	43.08%	42.88%	45.34%	43.77%
Chang Ming-ta	2nd	35.57%	36.73%	33.79%	35.36%
None of the candidates		21.35%	20.39%	20.87%	20.87%

2018 Chiayi County mayoral results
No.	Candidate	Party	Votes	Percentage
1	Weng Chang-liang	Democratic Progressive Party	145,288	50.95%
2	Wu Fang-ming (吳芳銘)	Independent	51,020	17.89%
3	Lin Kuo-lung (林國龍)	Independent	4,596	1.61%
4	Wu Yu-jen	Kuomintang	84,243	29.54%
Total voters			428,649
Valid votes			285,147
Invalid votes
Voter turnout			66.52%

References

^ Han Cheung (11 March 2018). "Taiwan in Time: Life after the Wild Lily". Retrieved 11 March 2018.
^ ^a ^b Chen, Wei-han (7 March 2018). "Weng wins polls in DPP's Chiayi County primary". Taipei Times. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
^ "Taiwan, India ink railway heritage deal". Taipei Times. 25 December 2016. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
^ Su, Fang-ho (21 January 2018). "15 DPP candidates vie in primaries for party nominations". Taipei Times. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
^ Chen, Wei-han (6 March 2018). "DPP starts Chiayi primary, results expected today". Taipei Times. Retrieved 7 March 2018.

External links

Media related to Weng Chang-liang at Wikimedia Commons
Weng Chang-liang on Facebook (in Chinese)

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

Mayors of special municipalities	Magistrates of counties	Mayors of cities
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