Latest survey shows voters stump for KMT leader in terms of economic development and cross-strait relations

 Latest survey shows voters stump for KMT leader in terms of economic development and cross-strait relations

November 25, 2016

The latest opinion survey conducted by the Kuomintang has showed that KMT Chairman and presidential candidate Eric Chu is leading his Democratic Progressive Party opponent, chairperson Tsai Ing-wen by 11 and 7 percentage points in terms of ensuring Taiwan’s economic development and cross-strait relations, respectively.

But in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election, Tsai is still leading Chu by 10.5 percentage points with 39.7% of the respondents supporting the DPP chairperson compared with 29.2% for the KMT leader, according to the survey.

The survey has showed that 28.3% of the respondents believe that in ensuring Taiwan’s economic development, Chu is more capable than Tsai, who has 17.3% support. Another presidential candidate, James Soong, chairman of the People First Party, has 9.9%. The rest of the respondents have declined to comment.

On the ability to maintain development of cross-strait relations, 27.3% of the respondents stand by Chu, compared with Tsai’s 20% and Soong’s 14.3%. The rest of the respondents have no comments.

The results of the survey indicate that Taiwanese public has more confidence in Chu in striving for economic development and cross-strait peace.

In the approval rating of the at-large legislators fielded by the two parties, 26.1% of the respondents stump for the KMT, compared with 26.3% for the DPP – a mere difference of 0.2 percentage point.

In terms of constituencies, Chu is leading Tsai by 3 percentage points only in Taoyuan, Hsinchu and Miaoli. He is lagging behind Tsai by less than 5 percentage points in Greater Taipei and Keelung, and by 7 percentage points in Taichung, Changhua and Nantou, according to the KMT.

The survey was conducted by the KMT data center between November 23 and 24 on 1,221 people with a margin of error of plus or minus 2.89 percentage points.

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