The Mayor of Tainan is the head of the

Tainan City Government The Tainan City Government () is the municipal government of Tainan, Taiwan. It was formed after the merger of Tainan County and Tainan City in December 2010. Its chief administrator is the directly elected Mayor of Tainan. Administration ...

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and is elected to a four-year term. The current mayor is

Huang Wei-cher Huang Wei-che (; born 26 September 1963) is a Taiwanese politician. He was a member of the Legislative Yuan from 2005 to 2018. Huang is the incumbent Mayor of Tainan since 25 December 2018 after winning the title during the 2018 local elections ...

of the Democratic Progressive Party since 25 December 2018.

Titles of the Mayor

List of Mayors

This list includes only those persons who served as mayors of

Tainan Tainan (), officially Tainan City, is a special municipality in southern Taiwan facing the Taiwan Strait on its western coast. Tainan is the oldest city on the island and also commonly known as the "Capital City" for its over 200 years of his ...

City after the end of

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, during the

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. The first two mayors served were appointed by the central

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(

). The numerals indicate the consecutive time in office served by a single elected mayor. For example,

Su Nan-cheng Su Nan-cheng (; 14 January 1936 – 2 September 2014) was a Taiwanese politician and Senior Advisor to ROC President Chen Shui-bian. He was a mayor of Tainan, serving from 1977 to 1985, and an appointed mayor of Kaohsiung, serving from 1985 ...

served two consecutive terms and is counted as the tenth mayor (not the eighth and ninth). Yeh Ting-kuei served three non-consecutive terms and is counted chronologically as the 3rd, the 5th, and the 7th mayor. Because of this, the list below contains 14 mayoralties, but only 12 people.

Titles of the Mayor

List of Mayors

Mayor of Tainan (Provincial city)

Appointed mayors

Elected mayors

Mayor of Tainan (Special municipality)

Timeline

See also

References

External links