Demographic_trends_and_public_opinion Taiwan_presidential_election,_2004

pan-blue supporters.

on day of election, each member of electorate (most adult citizens aged 20 , upwards) stamped 1 2 choices of president/vice-president tickets on ballot. since taiwan not provide absentee ballots, large numbers of taiwanese expatriates living in north america , mainland china returned taiwan vote. typical estimates indicate 20,000 people travelled north america , between 100,000 , 150,000 people travelled mainland china. analysts believe voters north america split evenly between 2 candidates, mainland china voted overwhelmingly pan-blue.

polls indicated taiwan split one-third identifying pan-blue, one-third identifying pan-green, , one-third centrist. show little cross-party voting on 90% of people identify 1 party group stating vote party.

pan-blue tends among mainlanders, taiwanese aborigines, , hakka. have support of people age 30-50, among rich, , poor, , among people northern , eastern taiwan. pan-green among people 20-30 , people 50-60, among people formal education doctors, , among people southern taiwan.

the margin in favor of pan-blue narrowed after 228 hand-in-hand rally, polls showing pan-green in lead. taiwanese law forbids publishing poll results, either current or historical, less ten days before election.