Yu Hao (politician)

Yu Hao (born 11 September 1983) is a Taiwanese politician. He served on the Nantou County Council from 2018 to 2024, when he was elected to the Legislative Yuan.

Early life
Yu Hao is a son of a police officer, raised in a single-parent household. He served in the 101st Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion, and graduated from National Chung Cheng University and National Cheng Kung University.

Early political career
Yu represented the Kuomintang in the 2014 Taiwanese local elections, and was not elected to the Nantou County Council.

Yu opposed the removal of Hung Hsiu-chu as the Kuomintang's candidate for the 2016 presidential election. He continued to work for Hung during her tenure as Kuomintang leader.

Yu contested the 2018 local elections, winning a seat on the Nantou County Council representing the multi-member fourth district. He was the leading vote-getter in the same district during the 2022 election cycle. That same year, Yu was also elected to the Kuomintang's Central Standing Committee.

Legislative Yuan
Yu was considered a potential candidate for the 2023 Nantou by-election before the Kuomintang called in Lin Ming-chen. Yu won over 70,000 votes in the 2024 legislative election defeating incumbent Democratic Progressive Party legislator Frida Tsai and independent candidate Chen Kuei-yu in the Legislative Yuan's Nantou II constituency. His campaign was backed by Nantou magistrate Hsu Shu-hua and performed well in the townships of Lugu and Zhushan. Yu also benefited from a split vote within the Pan-Green Coalition, as Chen had left the Democratic Progressive Party to mount an independent campaign.

Personal life
Yu married Huang Zi-chien on 31 January 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, their wedding ceremony was postponed to the following month.