Yang Wen-ke (; born 22 March 1951) is a Taiwanese politician who is the current magistrate of Hsinchu County since 25 December 2018 after winning the 2018 Taiwanese local elections on 24 November 2018.
Education Yang graduated from China University of Technology with a bachelor's degree in public relations and earned his Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) degree specializing in land economics from Chinese Culture University. In 2009, he earned a Master of Science (M.S.) in technology management from Chung Hua University.
Political career
Hsinchu County deputy magistrate On 1 October 2016, Yang attended the North Taiwan Regional Development Committee's deputy leaders meeting held at Kinmen to discuss the expanded Taiwan Agricultural Product Joint Sales Exhibition. Yang participated by bringing high-quality agricultural produce from Hsinchu County to the exhibition to help promoting them.
2018 Hsinchu County magistrate election On 13 June 2018, the Central Standing Committee of Kuomintang accepted the nomination of Yang as the party's candidate for the 2018 local election.
2018 Kuomintang Hsinchu County magistrate primary results Candidates Place Results Yang Wen-ke Walkover Lin Wei-chou Failure to get party's nomination -
2018 Hsinchu County mayoral results No. Candidate Party Votes Percentage Elected 1 Yang Wen-ke Kuomintang107,87738.20% 2 Yeh Fang-tung (葉芳棟) Independent 5,1681.83% 3 Cheng Chao-fang (鄭朝方)Democratic Progressive Party78,17027.68% 4 Hsu Hsin-ying Minkuotang91,19032.29% Total voters 427,652 Valid votes 282,405 Invalid votes Voter turnout 66.03%
Bribery investigation and indictment In July 2024, following a probe into mismanagement of the Wonder World 520 project that led to several construction site incidents, Hsinchu prosecutors indicted Yang along with other officials on charges of profiting from bribes and abuse of authority in connection with the real estate project in Jhubei.
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