Investigating the effect of socio-economic indicators of provinces on the voting rate of political parties in general elections in turkey

Elections provide a basis for the democratic system. Voters choose political party/parties to be given the authority to manage with the elections. In this process, some features of the voters can be a determining factor about which political party to be voted during the period of election. The present study analyzed the effect of the rate of voter population high school that graduated from a high school or a university, per capita income ($) of voters, the rate of unemployment and the rate of voters that live in a city on the total vote rate of represented and unrrepresentted political parties that participted in nine public parlemanter elections took place between 1987-2015, at the level of cities in Turkey. Based on this review, it was determinend that the proportion of voters having an educationat a high school or a higher education institution was effective on the votes of some political parties in the elections held in 1991, 1999, 2002, 2007, and on June 2015 and on November 2015. It was seen that the unemployment rate and income percapita were determined as effective over the votes of some political parties in all periods of the elections. The percentage of voters living in cities was defined as effective over vote percentage of some parties in 1987, 1991, 1995, 1999, 2002 and 2007 parlemanter elections.