ABSTRACT

This study was conducted on identifying the “Social Determinants of Voting Behaviour in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: A Case Study of Selected Districts (2002-2013)”. It is a quantitative study aimed at knowing the social factors of voting behaviour in the past three elections (2002, 2008 and 2013), with major purpose to see the changing trend in the mentioned elections. It was preceded with 292 respondents who had cast vote in any of the target elections and they were asked through Likert scale questionnaire under purposive sampling technique. The Study found a significant association of social factors such as family, biradari, feudalism, religion, political discussion at home and personal interests with voting behaviour. The changing scenario was observed as the importance of some factors was replaced by others. The study recommends that local political leadership as well as Election Commission of Pakistan should come forward to actively launch an awareness movement regarding the importance of vote towards increasing the participation ratio of voting especially women’s voting. Keywords: Voting Behaviour, Elections (2002-2013), Social Determinants, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

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https://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2019/8.7.4760