Behaviour of voters and local elections: Examinaton of voting behaviour of voters in Central district of Muş in local elections

Voters can be affected by various factors while voting in local elections. Accordingly they exhibit the behaviour of voting. In our study which includes voters' behaviours and local elections and the examination of voting behaviours of voters who live in the central district of Muş, firstly a detailed literatüre review has been made about subjects such as politics, democracy and voter which are basic concepts about voters' behaviours and accordingly necessary declarations have been made and after this the conceptual and theoretical aspects of electoral behaviour have been examined. After that, by dealing with the concept of election, it has been tried to focus on the organisation of the elections. Finally, a field survey method was used for the last section which is arduous and requires effort and accordingly a survey was done face to face with a selected group consisting of 380 people and the survey was evaluated by SPSS package technique and the results were tabulated. The majör findings of this study: It has been seen that when the voters choose the mayor, they first focus on the personality of the candidate and then on the party he/she belongs to and according to our study, previous studies also had a similar result. Also it has been seen that voters having a lower education level mainly focus on traditional features such as tribe and piety, but as this level increases, new features such as education situation, contribution to local economy and knowledge about municipality are looked for. At the point of determining the vote preference, while the impact of the elderly in the family is high among the groups having a low education level, this impact decreases as the education level increases and this impact is the lowest among the groups having a bachelor's degree, so it has been seen that this person has the ability or request to take his own decision. KeyWords: Right to vote and to be elected, Magna Charta, Equity Alliance, Voter, Voter Behaviour