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JOURNAL OF YOUTH RESEARCHES
A Research About the Youngs’ Voting Behavior in Local Elections: The Case of 2009, Ankara Metropolitan Municipality Election
Tablo 4: The Significance of The Rallies and Meetings of The Candidates For Political
İnformation in Local Elections
Number
Percent (%)
Does not matter
88
7.5
Insignificant
150
12.7
A bit important
363
30.8
Important
396
33.6
Very important
180
15.3
Total
1177
100
Source: Damlapınar and Balcı, 2014:228.
There was a significant relationship between the age of the participants and the level of
attaching importance to face-to-face interview activities by political candidates (F=2.37;
sd.=4; P< .05). When the Tukey test and the multiple comparison chart are examined, the
source of the differences between the groups is uncertain.
Young participants in the 18-27 age group who are less interested in the face-to-face in-
terviews conducted by political candidates in the local election campaign. This situation,
expresses a part of the view that the H3 hypothesis is not supported.
The H4, hypothesis of the family and close friends surrounding the young voter’s, has a
positive influence on voting behavior, states that there is a meaningful relationship betwe-
en the age of the participants and the level of consideration of the family and close friend
environment for political information (F=3.43; sd.=4; P< .01).
Young voters between the ages of 18-27 (X=3.15) consider and take less importance to
the views of family and close friends in shaping of voting behavior in the local election
period than other voter groups. This result expresses that the H4 hypothesis is not sup-
ported. As shown in table 5 have not been given any great importance information by
anyone about family and close friend environment factor.
