the race to the incumbent mayor Hau Lung-pin. 2012 campaigns Su declared his candidacy for the 2012 presidential candidacy, but lost a DPP party primary held in April 2011 to Tsai Ing-wen and Hsu Hsin-liang, by a margin of 1.35 percent. He was subsequently elected DPP chairman in May 2012, and was succeeded by Tsai in 2014, after dropping out of the chairmanship election in the wake of the Sunflower Student Movement. 2018 New Taipei mayoral race Total voters: 3,264,128; Valid votes: 2,038,822; Voter turnout: 62.46%. Second premiership: 2019–2023 Su was appointed to the premiership on January 14, 2019, by President Tsai Ing-wen. He succeeded William Lai, who had resigned in response to the Democratic Progressive Party's poor performance in the 2018 Taiwanese local elections. Aged 71, when he returned to the premiership, Su became one of the oldest to hold the office. Soon after Su assumed office, approval ratings for Tsai's presidential administration rose. Su and his second cabinet resigned en masse following the 2020 Taiwanese legislative election, as stipulated in the constitution, but Tsai, who won reelection to the presidency, asked him to remain in his post. Su visited the crash site of the Hualien train derailment. Second cabinet See also Politics of the Republic of China References External links Premier biography timeline at the Government Information Office, Republic of China (Taiwan) 1947 births Living people Magistrates of Pingtung County Democratic Progressive Party chairpersons National Taiwan University alumni Premiers of the Republic of China on Taiwan Taiwan independence activists Magistrates of Taipei County Recipients of the Order of Brilliant Star Taiwanese political party founders Taiwanese people of Hoklo descent 21st-century Taiwanese politicians 20th-century Taiwanese politicians