Chiang Nai-shin (; born 24 September 1948) is a Taiwanese politician. He served in the

Taipei City Council Taipei City Council () is the city council of Taipei, Taiwan. One of the largest local councils in Taiwan, the city council is currently composed of 63 councillors, all elected lately in the 2018 Taiwanese local elections. Composition ...

from 1982 to 2009, when he was elected to the

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Education

Chiang attended

Tatung University Tatung University (TTU/) is a private university in Zhongshan, Taipei, Taiwan. It was first founded in 1956 as Tatung Institute of Technology but renamed in 1999 as Tatung University. Currently, Tatung University has four colleges: College ...

, where he earned a master's degree in business administration.

Political career

Chiang was elected to the

in 1981 and served until 2009. After

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resigned her legislative seat in January 2009, Chiang won a four-way primary held on 8 February to represent the

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in the resulting by-election. He subsequently defeated six other candidates in the by-election held on 28 March. The

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nominated retired baseball player to run against Chiang in 2012. During his 2016 campaign, Chiang was first opposed by

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, a member of the

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, who soon ceded the race to fellow candidate of the Social Democratic Party. Chiang easily defeated Fan and

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candidate Wu Hsu-chih.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chiang, Nai-shin 1948 births Living people Republic of China politicians from Shanghai Taipei Members of the Legislative Yuan Kuomintang Members of the Legislative Yuan in Taiwan Members of the 7th Legislative Yuan Members of the 8th Legislative Yuan Members of the 9th Legislative Yuan Tatung University alumni Taiwanese people from Shanghai Taipei City Councilors