Lee Hsin

In this Chinese name, the family name is Lee.

Lee Hsin (Chinese: 李新; 16 July 1953 – 28 September 2017) was a Taiwanese politician who served on the Taipei City Council from 1998 to his death in 2017. He could speak fluent Mandarin Chinese and Hokkien.

Lee Hsin
李新
Lee in August 2015
Member of the Taipei City Council
In office 25 December 1998 – 28 September 2017
Constituency	Taipei 6th (Da-an District & Wenshan)
9th Deputy Speaker of Taipei City Council
In office 25 December 2002 – 24 December 2006
Preceded by	Alex Fai
Succeeded by	Chen Jinxiang
Member of the National Assembly
In office 1996–1998
Personal details
Born	(1953-07-16)16 July 1953 Taipei County, Taiwan
Died	28 September 2017(2017-09-28) (aged 64) Daan District, Taipei City, Taiwan
Political party	New Party (~2001) People First Party (2001~2008) Kuomintang (2008 ~ )
Alma mater	National Chung Hsing University School of Law and Business National Chengchi University National Taiwan University
Occupation	Politician

Political career

In 1993, he followed Yok Mu-ming from the Kuomintang to the New Party. In 1996, Lee was elected to the National Assembly. Lee joined the 2006 campaign led by Shih Ming-teh which attempted to force the resignation of President Chen Shui-bian.^[1] In 2008, he rejoined to the Kuomintang.

In 2015, Lee expressed interest in running for the Kuomintang chairmanship, but his candidacy, and that of four others, was rejected.^[2]

2016 KMT chairmanship election

The next year, he launched another bid for the party leadership, finishing third in a field of four candidates with 7,604 votes.^[3]

2016 Kuomintang chairmanship election
No.	Candidate	Party	Votes	Percentage	Result
1	Hung Hsiu-chu	Kuomintang	78,829	56.16%
2	Huang Min-hui	Kuomintang	46,341	33.02%
3	Lee Hsin	Kuomintang	7,604	5.42%
4	Apollo Chen	Kuomintang	6,784	4.83%
Total votes			337,351
Turnout			41.61%

He was a member of both the New Party and People First Party,^[4][5] and later joined the Kuomintang.

Personal life

Death

On 28 September 2017, Lee died from jumping out of his apartment building in Daan District, Taipei City, Taiwan. He was 64.^[6]

References

1. Wang, Flora (8 January 2008). "Shih Ming-teh sues Chen, Cho". Taipei Times. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
2. Chung, Lawrence (12 December 2014). "New Taipei City Mayor Eric Chu to run for Kuomintang chairman". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
3. Liu, Claudia; Lu, Hsin-hui; Wu, Lilian (26 March 2016). "Victorious Hung Hsiu-chu vows to work for KMT's rebirth". Central News Agency. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
4. Ko, Shu-ling (22 February 2001). "Officials do nothing as temple rots". Taipei Times. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
5. Chang, Rich (4 August 2007). "Shih, 15 others indicted over Oct. 10 'siege'". Taipei Times. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
6. Chiu, Chun-fu; Kuo, An-chia; Chin, Jonsthan (29 September 2017). "Taipei councilor falls to his death". Taipei Times. Retrieved 29 September 2017.