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 mayorormagistrate.[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, 106 days of age), while Hsinchu City's Ann Kao is the youngest (40 years, 163 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.
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| Office and division (past officeholders) |
Name | Portrait | Date of birth (Age) |
Party | Ref | |
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| Mayor of New Taipei City (list) |
Hou You-yi | 
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7 June 1957 (67 years, 29 days) |
Kuomintang | ||
| Mayor of Taipei City (list) |
Chiang Wan-an | 
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26 December 1978 (45 years, 193 days) |
Kuomintang | [5] | |
| Mayor of Taoyuan City (list) |
Chang San-cheng | 
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24 June 1954 (70 years, 12 days) |
Kuomintang | [6] | |
| Mayor of Taichung City (list) |
Lu Shiow-yen | 
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31 August 1961 (62 years, 310 days) |
Kuomintang | [7] | |
| Mayor of Tainan City (list) |
Huang Wei-cher | 
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26 September 1963 (60 years, 284 days) |
Democratic Progressive Party | [8] | |
| Mayor of Kaohsiung City (list) |
Chen Chi-mai | 
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23 December 1964 (59 years, 196 days) |
Democratic Progressive Party | [9] | |
| Magistrate of Yilan County (list) |
Lin Zi-miao | 
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28 January 1952 (72 years, 160 days) |
Kuomintang | ||
| Magistrate of Hsinchu County (list) |
Yang Wen-ke | 
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22 March 1951 (73 years, 106 days) |
Kuomintang | ||
| Magistrate of Miaoli County (list) |
Chung Tung-chin | 
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2 January 1963 (61 years, 186 days) |
Independent | [10] | |
| Magistrate of Changhua County (list) |
Wang Huei-mei | 
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22 November 1968 (55 years, 227 days) |
Kuomintang | ||
| Magistrate of Nantou County (list) |
Hsu Shu-hua | 
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15 October 1975 (48 years, 265 days) |
Kuomintang | [11] | |
| Magistrate of Yunlin County (list) |
Chang Li-shan | 
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1 January 1964 (60 years, 187 days) |
Kuomintang | [12] | |
| Magistrate of Chiayi County (list) |
Weng Chang-liang | 
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19 March 1965 (59 years, 109 days) |
Democratic Progressive Party | ||
| Magistrate of Pingtung County (list) |
Chou Chun-mi | 
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1 November 1966 (57 years, 248 days) |
Democratic Progressive Party | [13] | |
| Magistrate of Taitung County (list) |
April Yao | 
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23 November 1969 (54 years, 226 days) |
Kuomintang | ||
| Magistrate of Hualien County (list) |
Hsu Chen-wei | 
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12 October 1968 (55 years, 268 days) |
Kuomintang | ||
| Magistrate of Penghu County (list) |
Chen Kuang-fu | 
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25 October 1955 (68 years, 255 days) |
Democratic Progressive Party | ||
| Mayor of Keelung City (list) |
George Hsieh | 
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5 October 1975 (48 years, 275 days) |
Kuomintang | [14] | |
| Mayor of Hsinchu City (list) |
Ann Kao | 
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25 January 1984 (40 years, 163 days) |
Taiwan People's Party | [15] | |
| Mayor of Chiayi City (list) |
Huang Min-hui | 
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20 January 1959 (65 years, 168 days) |
Kuomintang | [16] | |
| Magistrate of Kinmen County (list) |
Chen Fu-hai | 
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3 June 1963 (61 years, 33 days) |
Taiwan People's Party | [17] | |
| Magistrate of Lienchiang County (list) |
Wang Chung-ming | 
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27 February 1958 (66 years, 130 days) |
Kuomintang | [18] | |
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