Identifying the Voting Behavior and Its Determinants: A Case of the 2015 Local Executive Election in Malaka Regency, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia

Authors

  • Gotfridus Goris Seran Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Djuanda, Bogor, Indonesia

Keywords:

East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, Local Executive Election, Malaka Regency, Voting Behavior.

Abstract

The aim of the study is to identify the voting behavior and its determinants in the local executive election in Malaka Regency in 2015. The study defines the voting behavior as the voter decision to vote or not to vote for a pair of candidates at the polling day, and operationally measures it based on the voter turnout and candidate choice. The study identifies that voters choose a pair of candidates on the basis of one or more of the following considerations toward these factors. Geopolitical characteristics, candidate figureship, and emotional relationship are the primary determinants of candidate choice. And two another factors, namely political plattform and party identification, appear to be the characteristics that closely relate to the voting behavior.

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Data of Table 6 based on the General Election Commission of Malaka Regency (2015) and https://pilkada2015.kpu.go.id/malakakab.

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2018-01-30

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Seran, G. G. (2018). Identifying the Voting Behavior and Its Determinants: A Case of the 2015 Local Executive Election in Malaka Regency, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. International Journal of Sciences: Basic and Applied Research (IJSBAR), 37(2), 12–22. Retrieved from https://gssrr.org/index.php/JournalOfBasicAndApplied/article/view/8666

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Vol. 37 No. 2 (2018)

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