List of magistrates and mayors in Taiwan information

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This article lists the current magistrates and mayors, the head of government, of the primary administrative divisions of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Following the dissolution of the provincial governments in 2018 after the 1998 streamlining of its provinces,^[1] local autonomous bodies including the 6 special municipalities and 2 titular provinces along with 13 counties and 3 autonomous municipalities are directly administered by the central government (Executive Yuan) according to the Local Government Act.^[2]^[3] Executive branch of the local autonomous bodies are led by a mayor or magistrate.^[4] Each mayor or magistrate is elected by the population of their corresponding division with a maximum term of four years and the possibility of reelection to one more term.^[2]

Currently, all of the mayors of special municipalities and provincial cities and all of the county magistrates in the republic have won in the 2022 mayoral and magistratical elections and were sworn into office on 25 December 2022. Of the twenty-two current incumbents, ten are women—Lu Shiow-yen in Taichung City, Huang Min-hui in Chiayi City, and Ann Kao in Hsinchu City, as well as all seven magistrates for counties in central Taiwan and along the east coast. Yang Wen-ke of Hsinchu County is the oldest official (73 years, 52 days of age), while Hsinchu City's Ann Kao is the youngest (40 years, 109 days old). Fourteen incumbents belong to the Kuomintang, five from the Democratic Progressive Party, two from the Taiwan People's Party, and one is non-partisan.

^ 精省 Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine (Streamlining of provinces), History and Culture Learning Portal, Ministry of Education (Taiwan).
^ ^a ^b 地方制度法 (Local Government Act), Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of China, 3 February 2010.
^ Bo Qingjiu, 地方政府與自治 (Local governance and autonomy), Wu-Nan Book Inc, 2001, p. 192-193. ISBN 9789571126371
^ "ROC introduction: Government organizations: Local governments: County (City) Level". Office of the President (Taiwan). Retrieved 2021-04-13.

[1] 精省 Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine (Streamlining of provinces), History and Culture Learning Portal, Ministry of Education (Taiwan).

[Act-2] 地方制度法 (Local Government Act), Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of China, 3 February 2010.

[3] Bo Qingjiu, 地方政府與自治 (Local governance and autonomy), Wu-Nan Book Inc, 2001, p. 192-193. ISBN 9789571126371

[4] "ROC introduction: Government organizations: Local governments: County (City) Level". Office of the President (Taiwan). Retrieved 2021-04-13.

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