The Influencing Factors of Voters Level Participation of Regional Head Election in Pekanbaru City 2017

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10.2991/icodag-17.2017.7How to use a DOI?

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Community Participation, Regional Head Election, Pekanbaru City

Abstract

Indonesia is one of the world's most democratic countries. In this understanding, the people have a very important position because sovereignty is in the hands of the people. This means that the people are sovereign, the powerful to determine the way in which they should be governed. Implementation of general elections, as well as elections to the general quality of the region, is needed as a means to realize the sovereignty of the people. Therefore, public participation is needed for the implementation of the regional elections of heads of quality and get legitimacy from the people. One of the regions conducting the election of regional heads in 2017 is Pekanbaru City. However, the participation of the public is only 285.787 from 572.029 Permanent Voter List or with the percentage of 50.25 percent. This paper presents what are the factors that influence the level of voter participation in the election of the regional head of Pekanbaru City in 2017. The research methods used to answer the above problems is the qualitative method with the data collection techniques are observation, interview, and documentation. Us for the informal is Pekanbaru City Election Commission, Pekanbaru City Election Supervisory Committee and Society who have the right to vote. The factors that influence the level of community participation are the first candidate figure, the two emotional closeness of one region with candidate and money politic or transactional politics and socialization conducted by organizer general election

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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