Lai Shyh-bao
Lai Shyh-bao is a Taiwanese engineer and politician currently serving as a member of the Legislative Yuan. A member of the Kuomintang, he has served on the party's Central Standing Committee and in the National Assembly.
Education
Lai graduated with a bachelor's degree in engineering from National Cheng Kung University and earned a Master of Business Administration from National Chengchi University. Lai taught business administration and eventually chaired the Graduate Institute of Business Administration at NCCU. He then completed graduate studies in the United States at the University of Southern California, where he earned a Master of Science and his Ph.D. in industrial engineering and systems engineering in 1984. His doctoral dissertation, completed under professors G. A. Fleischer and Ewald Heer, was titled, "A generalized replacement model for a robotic system".Political career
From 1999 to 2002, Lai was a New Party legislator. Despite a declaration that he would leave the New Party at the end of 2001 but not join another party, Lai switched affiliations to the Kuomintang in his legislative second term and secured the continued endorsement of the New Party.Lai was also promoted to increasingly important KMT caucus positions. In April 2005 he was deputy secretary of the caucus. By July, Lai had become caucus whip, a position he held until February 2016. Lai was nominated as the Kuomintang candidate for speaker of the ninth Legislative Yuan. The Democratic Progressive Party held a majority in the legislature, and elected Su Jia-chyuan as President of the Legislative Yuan. In 2020, Lai was again nominated for the speakership, losing for a second time, to Yu Shyi-kun.
Electoral history
2008 legislative election
- Eligible voters: 231,411
- Total votes cast : 146,614
- Valid Votes : 145,173
- Invalid Votes : 1,441
| No. | Candidate | Party | Votes | Ratio | Elected |
| 1 | Mei Fong | Independent | 171 | 0.12% | |
| 2 | Ren Li Min | Home Party | 234 | 0.16% | |
| 3 | Chou Po-ya | Democratic Progressive Party | 38,261 | 26.36% | |
| 4 | Lai Shyh-bao | Kuomintang | 104,257 | 71.81% | |
| 5 | Shih Mei Yan | Third Society Party | 492 | 0.34% | |
| 6 | Fang Ying Jyun | Independent | 277 | 0.19% | |
| 7 | Peng Yan Wun | Green Party Taiwan | 1,481 | 1.02% |