「選舉」是民主政治中非常重要的運作機制之一；尤其是地方選舉的結果，將會決定地方領導人及地方未來發展的方向。馬祖地方幅員小、人口少，對在地居民來說，縣長、議員、鄉長、鄉民代表等由誰擔任，最直接影響地方事務之推行及居民自身權益，是以縣長、縣議員選舉可以說是掌握地方預算的核心；也是馬祖最激烈的選舉。競選的候選人們莫不使出渾身解數，或以五同、族群等認同方式，或以各種競選手段，或以各種方面動員以求得勝選。
本研究基於作者是旅居馬祖服務28年的原住民。因此，想要就原住民在馬祖不斷的進駐，且人口逐漸增加以後，這群原住民人口會不會成為馬祖地方選舉中關鍵的影響者或政治生態的影響因子，於是有了這個研究動機的念頭。本研究係採取以「文獻整理」以及「訪談」方式，訪談對象以馬祖地方選舉（樁腳）人士或民意代表為主，並結合2014年、2018年被配票之候選人開出之選票來驗證。
經由二年來之研究，發現有以下六點現象：
一、原住民族政治參與在離島的發展尚在萌芽階段，對當地政治影響力仍極有限。
二、馬祖列嶼原住民族之政治參與已出現組織化的現象。
三、馬祖列嶼原住民族之政治參與，以民意代表為其競爭首選；至在行政首長部分仍有其參與困難之處。
四、馬祖列嶼原住民族之政治參與，仍以男性為主體，女性參與尚不多見。
五、馬祖列嶼原住民族之政治影響力，已有逐漸成長的傾向。
六、住居馬祖的原住民在協會主導下，儼然已成為馬祖另一種新興「家族」派系勢力。

基於上揭研究發現，提出下列建議，包括：
一、離島原住民族之政治參與，需要強化政治知能及公民意識。
二、離島原住民族之政治影響力，將因政治組織之積極運作，而有強化之可能性。
三、離島原住民族之教育程度，已逐年提昇；此對未來政治參與有其貢獻。
四、離島原住民族之政治抱負，將因國家決策機制的民主化，而帶來新的發展。

Election is one of the important operating mechanisms in democratic politics. Especially, the result of local election would decide the local leader and the direction of future development. For residents of Matsu, a small place with small population, who becomes the county mayor, councilor, village mayor, or villager representative could directly effect the implementation of local affairs as well as their own right. Therefore, county mayor and councilor elections, which are critical for local budgets, are the most competitive elections in Matsu. Candidates have to try their best to win the election with different strategies, such as group identity, kinds of election method, and campaign rally.
Since author of this study is a Taiwan aborigine having stayed and served in Matsu during 28 years, therefore we wondered that whether the increased amount of Taiwan aborigines, who moved in and colonized at Matsu, would become the critical influencing factor of Matsu local elections as well as political ecology, and this study was then performed. This study was analyzed by using literature review, interviews and questionnaires, combining with the candidates’ ballot data from election at 2014 and 2018. The interviewees majorly contained the voting broker and public opinion representative, while the questionnaires was used for the member of the Taiwan Aborigines Association.

After two years of research, as shown below, we found out 6 critical points:
1. The political participation of Taiwan aborigines is still in an embryonic stage, which influence to local politics was limited.
2. The Matsu political participation of Taiwan aborigines have been performed the organized system.
3. The Matsu political participation of Taiwan aborigines is focused on the election competition for public opinion representative, but the involvement of that for county mayor is still difficult.
4. Taiwan aborigines who participating in Matsu politics are mostly consisted by male, while the female who participated in are still uncommon.
5. The influence of Taiwan aborigine to Matsu politics has showed the gradually enhance.
6. With the leading of Taiwan aborigines association, the Matsu-living Taiwan aborigines have become another “family faction” without being ignored.

Based on above point of view, several suggestions were proposed, including:
1. The enhancement of political knowledge and ability as well as civic awareness is needed for the political participation of Taiwan aborigines in Matsu.
2. The Taiwan aborigine influence to Matsu politics have possibility to increase due to the activation of political organization.
3. The education level of Taiwan aborigine in Matsu was raised year by year, which has contribution to the political participation in the future.
4. The political ambitions of Taiwan aborigine in Matsu would exhibit new development since the democratization of national decision-making mechanisms.