{{Short description|Taiwanese politician}} {{family name hatnote|Yu|lang=Chinese}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Yu Cheng-hsien | native_name = {{no bold|{{lang|zh-hans|余政憲}}}} | image = 余政憲 部長.jpg | caption = Official portrait, 2000 | order1 = | office1 = Minister of the Interior of the Republic of China | 1blankname1 = | 1namedata1 = | term_start1 = 1 February 2002 | term_end1 = 9 April 2004 | predecessor1 = Chang Po-ya | successor1 = Su Chia-chyuan | order2 = | office2 = Magistrate of Kaohsiung County | minister2 = | term_start2 = 20 December 1993 | term_end2 = 20 December 2001 | predecessor2 = Yu Chen Yueh-ying | successor2 = Yang Chiu-hsing | office3 = Member of the Legislative Yuan | constituency3 = Kaohsiung | term_start3 = 1 February 1987 | term_end3 = 20 December 1993 | predecessor3 = | successor3 = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1959|5|8|df=y}} | birth_place = Kaohsiung County, Taiwan | party = Democratic Progressive Party | spouse = Cheng Kuei-lien | relations = Yu Chen Yueh-ying (mother) | children = | signature = | education = Feng Chia University (BA)<br />I-Shou University (MBA)<br />Chang Jung Christian University (DBA)<br />National Kaohsiung Normal University (PhD) }}

'''Yu Cheng-hsien''' ({{lang-zh|t=余政憲|p=Yú Zhèngxiàn}}; born 8 May 1959) is a Taiwanese politician. He was the Minister of the Interior from 2002 to 2004.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2003/09/26/2003069261 |title=Dodgy massage has interior minister feeling the pinch |publisher=Taipei Times |date=2003-09-26 |access-date=2014-04-28}}</ref> Currently, he is the CEO of Senao International<ref name="d868">{{cite web | title=前內政部長余政憲續任神腦董座！中華電信力挺 「後余政憲時代」開啟 | website=Yahoo News | date=2025-05-28 | url=https://tw.news.yahoo.com/%E5%89%8D%E5%85%A7%E6%94%BF%E9%83%A8%E9%95%B7%E4%BD%99%E6%94%BF%E6%86%B2%E7%BA%8C%E4%BB%BB%E7%A5%9E%E8%85%A6%E8%91%A3%E5%BA%A7-%E4%B8%AD%E8%8F%AF%E9%9B%BB%E4%BF%A1%E5%8A%9B%E6%8C%BA-%E5%BE%8C%E4%BD%99%E6%94%BF%E6%86%B2%E6%99%82%E4%BB%A3-%E9%96%8B%E5%95%9F-061000834.html | language=zh | access-date=2026-04-10}}</ref><ref name="g290">{{cite web | title=神腦董事會正式拍板 余政憲為新任董事長 | website=中央社 CNA | date=2025-03-26 | url=https://www.cna.com.tw/news/afe/202503260260.aspx | language=zh | access-date=2026-04-10}}</ref>

== Education == Yu graduated from Feng Chia University with a bachelor's degree in international economics in 1984 and earned a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) from I-Shou University. He then earned two doctorates: a Doctor of Business Administration (D.B.A.) from Chang Jung Christian University and a Ph.D. in education from National Kaohsiung Normal University.

==Political careers==

=== 2008 legislative election === {{main|2008 Taiwanese legislative election}}

* All registered: 242,349 * Voters (turnout): 156,440 (64.55%) * Valid (percentage): 153,166 (97.91%) * Rejected (percentage): 3,274 (2.09%) {| class="wikitable" !Order !Candidate !Party !Votes !Percentage !Elected |- |1 |Liu Zheng-wei |&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Taiwan Farmers' Party |3,250 |2.12% | |- |2 |'''Yu Cheng-hsien''' |Democratic Progressive Party |65,257 |42.61% | |- |3 |Lin Yi-shih | link=|20x20px&nbsp;Kuomintang | 84,659 |55.27% |<div align="center">20x20px</div> |}

===Ministry of Interior=== Yu submitted his resignation on 19 March 2004 from his ministerial position to take the responsibility over the 3-19 shooting incident on Chen Shui-bian in Tainan City but was asked by Premier Yu Shyi-kun to stay. He resubmitted his resignation again on 4 April 2004 after the demonstration made by Pan-Blue Coalition over the result of the 2004 presidential election had come under control.<ref>{{cite news|title=Pingtung County chief to take over Interior Ministry|url=http://www.chinapost.com.tw/news/2004/04/06/47547/Pingtung-County.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923224353/http://www.chinapost.com.tw/news/2004/04/06/47547/Pingtung-County.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 23, 2015|access-date=2015-10-31|work=The China Post|date=2004-04-06}}</ref>

== Personal life == Yu has a daughter, Yu Chia-chen, an electrical engineer who graduated from the California Institute of Technology and earned her doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).<ref>{{Cite news |last=自由時報電子報 |date=2023-06-05 |title=學霸女兒獲MIT博士學位 余政憲：感到歡喜、驕傲 - 臺中市 - 自由時報電子報 |url=https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/Taichung/breakingnews/4323729 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20230605052427/https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/Taichung/breakingnews/4323729 |archive-date=2023-06-05 |access-date=2025-12-03 |work=自由時報電子報 |language=zh-Hant-TW}}</ref>

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