Apollo Chen

Born in Taipei, Chen attended Jianguo High School, and earned a bachelor's degree in political science from National Taiwan University, followed by a master's in Chinese studies at Tamkang University. He wrote for the China Daily News and China Times and was also a television anchor on Asia Television.[1]

Chen served on the Taipei City Council from 1991 to 1998.[2][3] His first stint in the Legislative Yuan began the next year and lasted until 2005. Chen was the spokesman of Lien Chan's 2000 presidential campaign.[4][5] In between legislative stints, he was the director of the Taoyuan County Cultural Affairs Bureau.[6][7][8] Chen, backed by the Kuomintang,[9] ran for the legislature again in the Taoyuan County by-election of 2010, losing to Huang Jen-shu by approximately 3,000 votes.[10][11] He returned to the legislature in 2012. In 2014, Chen was suspended from the Kuomintang for casting a vote against the Land Administration Agent Act.[12] However, the censure did not prevent him from running for reelection in 2016, which he won.[13] It was initially reported that Chen had defeated Hsu Ching-wen by 390 votes.[14][15] A recount by the Taoyuan District Court revealed that Chen had won by 389 votes.[16][17]

2016 KMT chairmanship election

His party's presidential candidate, Eric Chu, was not successful and subsequently resigned the KMT chairmanship. Chen declared his interest in the position a few days after Chu's resignation was finalized.[18][19] On 22 February, Chen submitted a petition of 24,179 signatures to the party committee responsible for overseeing elections.[20] The party confirmed 10,710 of those signatures, validating his candidacy.[21] Chen finished fourth in the election, which was won by Hung Hsiu-chu.[22]

2016 Kuomintang chairmanship election
No.	Candidate	Party	Votes	Percentage	Result
1	Hung Hsiu-chu	Kuomintang	78,829	56.16%
2	Huang Min-hui	Kuomintang	46,341	33.02%
3	Lee Hsin	Kuomintang	7,604	5.42%
4	Apollo Chen	Kuomintang	6,784	4.83%
Total votes			337,351
Turnout			41.61%

2018 Taoyuan mayor election

In March 2018, the Kuomintang announced that Chen had defeated Lu Ming-che and Yang Li-huan in a primary held to decide the party's candidate in the Taoyuan mayoral election.[23]

2018 Kuomintang Taoyuan City mayoral primary results
Candidates	Place	Results
Apollo Chen	Nominated	35.689%
Lu Ming-zhe	2nd	33.067%
Yang Li-huan	3rd	31.245%

2018 Taoyuan mayor election result

2018 Taoyuan City mayoral results[24]
No.	Candidate	Party	Votes	Percentage
1	Zhu Mei-xue (朱梅雪)	Independent	18,200	1.76%
2	Apollo Chen	Kuomintang	407,234	39.42%
3	Yang Li-huan (楊麗環)	Independent	51,518	4.99%
4	Wu Fu-tong (吳富彤)	Independent	3,867	0.37%
5	Cheng Wen-tsan	Democratic Progressive Party	552,330	53.46%
Total voters			1,732,591
Valid votes			1,033,149
Invalid votes
Voter turnout			59.63%

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