Lai Shyh-bao (; born 20 June 1951) is a Taiwanese politician. He has served on the

Kuomintang The Kuomintang (KMT), also referred to as the Guomindang (GMD), the Nationalist Party of China (NPC) or the Chinese Nationalist Party (CNP), is a major political party in the Republic of China, initially on the Chinese mainland and in Tai ...

Central Standing Committee, the

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and the Legislative Yuan.

Education

He received a bachelor's degree in engineering from National Cheng Kung University, before studying business administration at the

National Chengchi University National Chengchi University () is a public research university in Taipei. The university is also considered as the earliest public service training facility of the Republic of China. First established in Nanjing in 1927, the university was subs ...

. Lai taught the subject and eventually chaired the Graduate Institute of Business Administration at NCCU. He returned to engineering while as a master's and doctoral student at the

University of Southern California , mottoeng = "Let whoever earns the palm bear it" , religious_affiliation = Nonsectarian—historically Methodist , established = , accreditation = WSCUC , type = Private research university , academic_affiliations = , endowment = $8.1 ...

Political career

From 1999 to 2002, Lai was a New Party legislator. Despite a declaration that he would leave the New Party at the end of 2001 but not join another party, Lai switched affiliations to the

in his legislative second term and secured the continued endorsement of the New Party. Lai was also promoted to increasingly important KMT caucus positions. In April 2005 he was deputy secretary of the caucus. By July, Lai had become caucus whip, a position he held until February 2016. Lai was nominated as the Kuomintang candidate for speaker of the ninth Legislative Yuan. The Democratic Progressive Party held a majority in the legislature, and elected

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. In 2020, Lai was again nominated for the speakership, losing for a second time, to

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Electoral history

2008 legislative election

*Eligible voters: 231,411 *Total votes cast (Ratio): 146,614 (63.36%) *Valid Votes (Ratio): 145,173 (99.02%) *Invalid Votes (Ratio): 1,441 (0.98%)

References

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