Hsu Hsin-ying (Chinese: 徐欣瑩; pinyin: Xú Xīnyíng; born 23 April 1972) is a Taiwanese politician. Prior to joining the Kuomintang (KMT) in 2009, Hsu was an independent. She left the KMT to found the Minkuotang (MKT) in 2015. In 2019, the MKT was absorbed by the Congress Party Alliance. Hsu rejoined the Kuomintang in 2022, and was reelected in the 2024 legislative election.
Hsu first ran for office in 2005, for a position on the Hsinchu County Council, for which she was defeated.[4] She organized a bid for the Legislative Yuan in 2008, resulting in the same outcome.[5] After joining the Kuomintang in 2009, she won and served on the county council,[4] before winning a Legislative Yuan seat in the 2012 elections as a member of the Kuomintang. In that election, Hsu won 171,466 votes,[6] the most of any one candidate that year.[7][8] Hsu was reelected to the KMT's Central Standing Committee in August 2014, but did not serve a full one-year term.[9] Instead, she split from the party in January 2015,[10] and founded the Minkuotang (MKT) in March, serving as the MKT's first chair.[11]
2016 campaigns
Hsu ran for reelection in Hsinchu County until People First Party chairman James Soong named her the vice presidential candidate for his 2016 presidential campaign in November 2015.[12][13][14] The PFP–MKT coalition finished third in the presidential election and the MKT lost its only seat in the Legislative Yuan.
Later political career
Hsu contested the Hsinchu County magistracy in 2018.[15][16] She finished second of four candidates, with 32.29% of the vote.[17]
Following her loss to Yang Wen-ke, Hsu resigned the Minkuotang leadership on 29 November 2018,[18] and the party merged into the Congress Party Alliance on 25 January 2019.[19]
Hsu rejoined the Kuomintang in May 2022,[20] and began her Hsinchu County legislative campaign in March 2023.[21][22] She was reelected in the January 2024 legislative election.[23][24]
^Liu, Kay (3 December 2023). "ELECTION 2024/Scenes from the campaign trail: A busy Sunday for main political parties". Central News Agency. Retrieved 4 December 2023. The KMT chairman then traveled to neighboring Hsinchu County to campaign for the party's legislative candidate Hsu Hsin-ying (徐欣瑩), who served one term between 2012 and 2016, when the county only had one seat in the Legislature.
