The Mayor of Taipei is the head of the
Taipei City Government and is elected to a four-year term. Until the election of
Tsai Ing-wen, the office was seen as a stepping stone to the
presidency: presidents
Lee Teng-hui
Lee Teng-hui (; 15 January 192330 July 2020) was a Taiwanese statesman and economist who served as President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) under the 1947 Constitution and chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT) from 1988 to 2000. He was the fir ...
,
Chen Shui-bian and
Ma Ying-jeou have all held this position prior to being elected president.
Taipei was elevated as a
special municipality Special municipality may refer to:
* Special municipality (Netherlands)
There are twelve provinces of the Netherlands (), representing the administrative layer between the national government and the local municipalities, with responsibility fo ...
from 1967. The mayor was a position appointed by the central government from 1967 to 1994, and the first public election for Mayor of Taipei was held in 1994.
The incumbent mayor is
Chiang Wan-an.
Titles of the Mayor
List of Mayors
Prefectural city era (appointed mayors)
Provincial city era (appointed mayors)
Provincial city era (directly elected mayors)
Special municipality era (appointed mayors)
Special municipality era (directly elected mayors)
Timeline
Electoral history
Taipei Mayoral Election, 1994
Taipei Mayoral Election, 1998
Taipei Mayoral Election, 2002
Taipei Mayoral Election, 2006
Taipei Mayoral Election, 2010
Taipei Mayoral Election, 2014
Taipei Mayoral Election, 2018
Taipei Mayoral Election, 2022
See also
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Taipei
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Mayor of New Taipei
The Mayor of New Taipei is the chief political executive of the city of New Taipei in Taiwan. The mayor, a new position created when the predecessor entity of New Taipei, Taipei County, was elevated to a special municipality in 2010, is elected ...
References
Bibliography
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{{The current heads of the local government in ROC (Taiwan)
1967 establishments in Taiwan