Lin Yu-fang (; born 15 March 1951) is a Taiwanese political scientist and politician. Lin was a Kuomintang legislator from 2008 to 2016 and the chairman of the Legislative Yuan's Diplomacy and National Defense Committee.
Education Lin obtained his bachelor's and master's degrees in English literature and American studies, respectively, from Tamkang University and earned a Ph.D. in international politics from the University of Virginia in the United States.
Political career Lin was elected to the Legislative Yuan for the first time in 1995, via the Chinese New Party's party list. He represented Taipei 2, for two terms from 2002 to 2008, first for the People First Party, before switching to the Kuomintang. Lin then won two elections from the single-member Taipei 5 constituency, serving through 2016.
2008 legislative election No.CandidatePartyVotesRatioElected1Ye Mei (葉玫) Home Party3240.22%2Wu Jian Yi (吳建毅)Taiwan Farmers' Party2510.17%3Wei Jhih Jhong (魏志中)Independent2840.19%4Lin Yu-fangKuomintang87,44858.23%5Huang Ci Bin (黃啟彬)Taiwan Constitution Association3600.24%6Tuan Yi-kang Democratic Progressive Party61,48040.95%
2016 legislative election + Taipei 5th Constituency 2016 Legislative Yuan Election Candidate Party Votes Percentage Freddy Lim 林昶佐 New Power Party 82,650 49.52% Lin Yu-fang 林郁方 Kuomintang 76,079 45.58% You Jui-min 尤瑞敏 Trees Party 4,506 2.69% Kung Wei-lun 龔偉綸 Independent 1,710 1.02% Li Chia-hsin 李家幸 Taiwan Independence Party 885 0.53% Huang Fu-liao 黃福卿 Independent 587 0.35% Hung Hsien-cheng 洪顯政 Constitutional Conventions of Taiwan 478 0.28% SourceTotal166,895100%
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