Explanation of the Neighborhood and Tribal Votes Pattern in the Elections of the Islamic Council (Case study: the Constituencies of Kohgiluyeh, Cheram, Behmaie and Landeh)

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• Yousef Ansari ¹
• Hojat Mahkoei ²
• Ali Shamsoddini ³
• Sirous Ahmadi Nohedani ⁴

¹ Responsible for security / Gachsaran city governorate

² Department of Geography, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran

³ Associate Professor of Urban Planning Department, Shiraz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran

⁴ Assistant Professor of Political Geography, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22067/pg.2022.74100.1119

Abstract

Focuses on the impact of neighborhood and tribalism is one of the prospecting on election geography that explores how geographic contexts and circumstances affect the voter behavior. Based on this presumption that people in a residential area are largely similar to one another in terms of characteristics and social, economic, and cultural identities, they vote for the persons or the movements that suppose they have also the same feeling. The election of the Islamic Consultative Assembly in the provinces of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer Ahmad clearly demonstrates this. In such a way, by hosting multiple election cycles in this area, the neighborhood, particularly its central clan dimension, has had a tremendous impact on the election results. The question that this study tries to answer is what impact did the neighborhood have on the Kohgiluyeh, Cheram, Bahmai, and Landeh constituencies in the 11th election of the Islamic Consultative Assembly? According to the library studies and field findings (observation and interview) in the aforementioned electoral area, there is a direct correlation between the impact of neighborhood and tribalism and the voting rate of candidates. Therefore, based on the data and statistical information that make up the candidates' ballot boxes, the majority of the candidates’ votes are in the territory of their tribe and their neighborhood. This study followed a descriptive-analytical research method. The data gathering method for this study was a documentary and field, and GIS and Excel software was used to analyze data. It was determined that neighborhood and tribal tendencies played a clear and significant role in the election of the aforementioned constituency, and each city in this constituency has been affected by the neighborhood and hometown effect proportionately to its population. The most and the least neighborhood and clan characteristics have been used in the populated cities (Kohgiluyeh and Behmai) and the sparsely populated cities (Landeh and Cheram), respectively, to support the candidate of the territory.

Keywords

• Geography of Election
• Neighborhood Effect
• Spatial Distribution Pattern of Votes
• Clan-Centric Election of the Islamic Consultative Assembly

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