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Zarghani1 S H, Razavinejad2 M. The Analysis of Ethnicity in the Voting Patterns of Candidates in the Tenth Presidential Elections. MJSP 2013; 17 (3) :109-126
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The Analysis of Ethnicity in the Voting Patterns of Candidates in the Tenth Presidential Elections
S. H. Zarghani1 1, M. Razavinejad22
1- Assistant Professor of Political Geography. Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
2- M.A. of Political Geography, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
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The geography of elections is one of the branches of the political geography, which studies the aspects of the geography of elections such as spatial organization of elections, spatial diversity in voting patterns and the impact of spatial and environmental factors in the voters’ decisions. The factors that influence elective decision making conditionally, geographically and spatially are extensive. One of the factors that is able to influence the extent of voting of the people in many countries is the types of the people's ethnicity. The neighborhood phenomenon is a significant factor in the political behavior of citizens and also in creation of the spatial patterns of elections. It means that the residents of a particular place (local area, town, city, and province) make sympathy with the candidate who was born in that place, so people think that this candidate can understand their problems well. Therefore, people vote in favor of him. This survey examines the role of neighborhood ness in the voting patterns of Iran’s tenth presidential elections. The method of this research is descriptive-analytic. In order to explain the subject, the GIS software was used for drawing the elective maps. The results of this study showed that neighborhood need had a significant impact in the 10th presidential elections’ voting patterns.    
Keywords: Electoral geography, Voting patterns, The tenth presidential elections, Iran
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Received: 2013/10/13 | Accepted: 2013/10/13 | Published: 2013/10/23
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