A study on the social and economical factors which affect the voting behaviour of women: The sample of Trabzon province, Ortahisar district 2019

The points female voters are careful about and the factors from which they are affected while casting a vote is not only an important issue for the sake of its understanding of politics, but also for the understanding of its sociological effects and its contribution to literature. The aim of this study is to examine the social and economical factors which affect the voting behaviour of female voters. In this regard, the effect of female voters on voting behaviour in the case of being restricted socially and economically or not generates the main topic of the argument. The main question of the study is whether there is a connection between the education level, economical income status, vocational specialization of female voters and them behaving freely or not while casting their votes. In this respect, the first of the two hypotheses has shown that the female voters who are not socially and economically restricted take part actively in the political participation and politics; and the second hypothesis has revealed that the decisions of female voters who are socially and economically restricted are made by their husbands and families. The married housewives living in Kemerkaya and Yenicuma Districts of Trabzon Province and the married employed women working for Trabzon Turk Telekom Regional Directorate have been selected as samples in this research. The hypotheses which are created by conducting a poll on these samples have been tested. Keywords: Female Voters, Voting Behaviour, Political Participation, Social and Economical Factors