| dc.description.abstract | Taiwan is a culturally diverse society with four major ethnic groups： the Hakka, the
Waisheng (People from other Province), the Minnan, and the Aborigines. The Hakka
Commission of the Executive Yuan was established on June 14, 2001, with the aim of
reviving the lost Hakka traditional culture in Taiwan and continuing the lifeblood of the
traditional Hakka culture. The Hakka Population and Linguistic Basis Study conducted in
2021 shows that there are approximately 4,669,000 Hakka people in Taiwan who meet the
definition of Hakka in the Hakka Basic Law： ＂People with Hakka blood or Hakka origins
who identify themselves as Hakka＂, of which Taoyuan City has more than 900,000,
accounting for 39.9% of the population of Taoyuan. Among them, the proportion of Hakka
people in Yangmei District of Taoyuan City was 73.65% (the population of Yangmei District
was about 175,000 at that time).
Since the researcher’s Family was a Hakka family living in Yangmei area for generations,
the researcher wanted to analyze the number of votes received in the 2016, 2020, and 2024
presidential and legislator-at-large elections in Yangmei to analyze the political party
preferences and voting motives of local Yangmei Hakka district voters.
Using the whole district of Yangmei and each sub-district as the scope, the study plans to
analyze the voters′ party preference in Yangmei Hakka District through literature analysis,secondary data analysis, in-depth interviews. It also analyzes electoral system and
constituency, electoral system and party system, voting behavior and split-vote theory as
variables to explore the preference of electoral parties in Yangmei Hakka District.
This study finds the following ： (1) Yangmei′s political party preference is more inclined
to the Kuomintang (2) Traditional Hakka voters attach more importance to the human touch in
elections, and nowadays the election strategies of political parties in general elections are
more focused on national policies, issues, and media publicity, and it is more difficult for
traditional Hakka voters to change their support for a certain political party if these election
strategies have nothing to do with the location of Hakka villages. (3) Hakka voters in
Yangmei are more likely to identify with the candidates themselves than with the candidates′
political parties and policies when they are facing candidates from local factions that they are
more familiar with. At the same time, the existing plural constituency system of local
elections in the Republic of China is prone to split voting, which leads to the conflict between
political party preferences and candidates′ preferences. (4) In Yangmei District, voters in
Puxin District have a higher degree of party identification and are more likely to be
Kuomingtang, while voters in Gaoshanding District have a higher degree of candidate
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