Analysis of voter choices in terms of political marketing mix: An application in İzmir

Political marketing is executed effort of getting maximum level of votes in return for minimum level of cost by political party or a political candidate who is standing far election. However, the implementation of political marketing tools has a short history in our country compared with UK or USA, thanks to technological improvemensts now, iti is possible to say that voters are faced with all of the political marketing tools durung or before the elections.With the advances in mass communication tools and technology, it seems that a great audience of voters have knowledge of political issues. Gradually increasing level of education and knowledge about political issues, voters take their decisions not with whatever a party or candidate offers or promises about, but voters take their decision with self sight and with the knowledge that voters have. Thus, political parties and candidates should give weight to all political marketing mix one by one and should clearify the needs and wants of all different parts of voters in case to get their votes.The study, aiming to analyze of voter choices in terms of political marketing mix, is being formed by three parts. In the first part of the study, the main charactersitics and definitions of political marketing are performed and in the second part; the components of political marketing mix are examined in detail. In the last part of the study; there has been a research analyzing voter choices in terms of political marketing mix in İzmir. The study is being completed with the evaluation of findings and suggestions fort he following studies.