Taiwan opinion polls
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Democratic Progressive Party leads the polling average with 36.5%, 15.5 points ahead of Kuomintang.
Average
Updated 34 minutes ago
DPPDemocratic Progressive Party
36.5
+3.6
TPPTaiwan People's Party
15.9
+1.5
Trend
DPPKMTTPP
Stances
DPPKMTTPP
Immigration
ExpandRestrictRemigration
Economy
Free marketState-directed
Abortion
Broad accessProtect unborn life
Marriage & family
Individual choiceTraditional
National culture
CosmopolitanPreserve heritage
Technology1 unplaced
Light-touchRein in Big Tech
Scores and reasons written by AI. Methodology
Why these scores
Immigration
- Democratic Progressive Party: 4 of 10 Government expands foreign labour (2024 India worker deal) but expelled pro-unification Chinese spouses in 2025
- Kuomintang: 4 of 10 No restriction agenda; condemned 2025 expulsions of Chinese spouses as a chilling effect on speech
- Taiwan People's Party: 4 of 10 Opposed 2025 expulsions of Chinese spouses; seated Chinese-born legislator Li Chen-hsiu in 2026; no restriction platform
Economy
- Democratic Progressive Party: 4.5 of 10 Annual minimum-wage rises and Long-term Care 2.0, but cut top income-tax rate from 45% to 40% in 2018
- Kuomintang: 4 of 10 Pro-business trade opener with China; in 2025 pushed a universal NT$10,000 cash handout
- Taiwan People's Party: 4.5 of 10 Pledges fiscal restraint alongside affordable housing and protection for disadvantaged groups; co-passed larger local revenue shares
Christian identity
- Democratic Progressive Party: 2 of 10 No religious agenda; legalised same-sex marriage in 2019 over church-led opposition
- Kuomintang: 2.5 of 10 No religious platform, but Christian groups inside the party lead its opposition to same-sex marriage
- Taiwan People's Party: 2 of 10 No religious platform or religious-policy votes
Abortion
- Democratic Progressive Party: 2 of 10 Keeps abortion legal to 24 weeks; its health ministry's 2023 draft would drop spousal consent, still unpassed
- Kuomintang: 2.5 of 10 No party position; accepts current law allowing abortion to 24 weeks with spousal consent
- Taiwan People's Party: 2.5 of 10 No stated position; accepts current law permitting abortion up to 24 weeks
Marriage & family
- Democratic Progressive Party: 2 of 10 Legalised same-sex marriage in 2019, then joint adoption and cross-border same-sex marriage in 2023
- Kuomintang: 4.5 of 10 Caucus mostly voted against 2019 same-sex marriage law, freely; no repeal push since
- Taiwan People's Party: 3 of 10 Chair Huang backed same-sex marriage; legislator Chen Chao-tzu pushes legalising surrogacy
National culture
- Democratic Progressive Party: 5 of 10 Promotes Taiwanese identity; 2019 law made Hokkien, Hakka and indigenous languages national languages
- Kuomintang: 6.5 of 10 Chair Cheng Li-wun says Taiwan's culture is at least 90% Chinese; opposes DPP 'de-Sinicisation'
- Taiwan People's Party: 3.5 of 10 No heritage or language agenda; defines Taiwanese identity civically by shared democratic institutions rather than ancestry
Subsidiarity
- Democratic Progressive Party: 4 of 10 Opposed KMT-TPP 2024 and 2025 laws shifting central revenue to local governments; cabinet refused to countersign 2025's
- Kuomintang: 6.5 of 10 With TPP passed 2024 and 2025 amendments giving local governments a larger share of central tax revenue
- Taiwan People's Party: 6.5 of 10 With KMT passed 2024 and 2025 amendments giving local governments a larger share of central tax revenue
Technology
- Democratic Progressive Party: 5 of 10 2024 anti-fraud act makes platforms verify advertisers; used it to block Xiaohongshu in 2025; promotion-first AI Basic Act
- Kuomintang: 4 of 10 Called the 2025 Xiaohongshu block censorship; opposed the shelved 2022 Digital Intermediary Services Act as censorship