Editing Kuomintang (section)

== Supporter base ==
Support for the KMT in Taiwan encompasses a wide range of social groups but is largely determined by age. KMT support is concentrated in northern Taiwan in urban areas, where it draws its backing from big businesses due to its policy of maintaining commercial links with mainland China. As of 2020, only 3% of KMT members are under 40 years of age.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200421/p2g/00m/0in/048000c|title=Taiwan's once-powerful Kuomintang faces make-or-break moment|work=[[The Mainichi]]|date=22 April 2020|access-date=19 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200429023403/https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200421/p2g/00m/0in/048000c|archive-date=29 April 2020|url-status=dead}}</ref>{{Update inline|date=January 2024}}

The KMT also has some support in the labor sector because of the many labor benefits and insurance implemented while the KMT was in power. The KMT traditionally has strong cooperation with military officers, teachers, and government workers. Among ethnic groups in Taiwan, the KMT has stronger support among [[waishengren|mainlanders]] and their descendants for ideological reasons and among [[Taiwanese indigenous peoples]]. The support for the KMT generally tend to be stronger in majority-[[Hakka]] and [[Mandarin Chinese|Mandarin]]-speaking counties of Taiwan, in contrast to the [[Hokkien]]-majority southwestern counties that tend to support the [[Democratic Progressive Party]].

Hostility between indigenous communities and (Taiwanese) Hoklo and the indigenous communities' robust KMT networks both contribute to the indigenous tendency to vote for the KMT and their skepticism towards the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP).<ref name="auto">{{cite book|last1=Damm|first1=Jens|editor1-last=Damm|editor1-first=Jens|editor2-last=Lim|editor2-first=Paul|title=European perspectives on Taiwan|date=2012|publisher=Springer VS|location=Wiesbaden|isbn=978-3-531-94303-9|page=95|chapter=Multiculturalism in Taiwan and the Influence of Europe}}</ref> Indigenous peoples have criticized politicians for abusing the "indigenization" movement for political gains, such as indigenous opposition to the DPP's "rectification" by recognizing the Taroko for political reasons, with the majority of mountain townships voting for [[Ma Ying-jeou]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ZOusAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA28 Simon 2011] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150520072855/https://books.google.com/books?id=ZOusAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA28 |date=20 May 2015 }}, p. 28.</ref> In 2005 the Kuomintang displayed a massive photo of the anti-Japanese Seediq leader [[Mona Rudao]] at its headquarters in honor of the 60th anniversary of Taiwan's retrocession from Japan to the Republic of China.<ref>{{cite news |date=26 October 2005 |script-title=zh:國民黨紀念光復稱莫那魯道抗日英雄 |url=http://www.lihpao.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-80741 |newspaper=[[:zh:台湾立报|Lihpao]] |language=zh-hant |access-date=26 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402094925/http://www.lihpao.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-80741 |archive-date=2 April 2015 |url-status=live |title=The Enlightened Mindset - Exploring the World of Knowledge and Understanding }}</ref>

On social issues, the KMT does not take an official position on [[Same-sex marriage in Taiwan|same-sex marriage]], though most members of legislative committees, mayors of cities, and the 2020 presidential candidate [[Han Kuo-yu]] oppose it. The party does, however, have a small faction that supports same-sex marriage, consisting mainly of young people and residents of the [[Taipei metropolitan area]]. The opposition to same-sex marriage comes mostly from [[Christianity in Taiwan|Christian]] groups, who wield significant political influence within the KMT.<ref>{{cite news |author=Agence France-Presse in Taipei |title=Taiwan pins same-sex marriage hopes on political change |url=http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/1892493/taiwan-pins-same-***-marriage-hopes-political-change |newspaper=South China Morning Post |date=18 December 2015 |access-date=17 December 2015 }}{{dead link|date=July 2022|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>