Chou Hsi-wei

Chou Hsi-wei (, born 11 March 1958) is a Taiwanese politician. He was a member of the Legislative Yuan from 1999 to 2005. He then served as Taipei County Magistrate from 2005 to 2010.

Chou worked for James Soong and was a member of Soong's People First Party until joining the Kuomintang in 2005.

Education Chou graduated with his bachelor's degree in business administration from Fu Jen Catholic University, then earned a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) and a Master of Public Administration (M.P.A.) from the University of Southern California in the United States.

Political career Chou served two terms on the Legislative Yuan before he was elected as the Magistrate of Taipei County in the 2005 Republic of China local election held on 3 December 2005 and took office on 20 December 2005. In October 2017, Chou declared his candidacy for the New Taipei mayoralty. He registered for the Kuomintang mayoral primary in March 2018. In February 2019, Chou announced his bid for the 2020 Kuomintang presidential nomination.

2019 Kuomintang Republic of China presidential primary results Candidates Place Result Han Kuo-yu 44.81% Terry Gou 2nd 27.73% Eric Chu 3rd 17.90% Chou Hsi-wei 4th 6.02% Chang Ya-chung 5th 3.54%