The Spatial Analysis of the Parties Voting Rate on the District Scale at the General Election In 2011

In geographical context, elections is a component of political geography which reflecting of human preferences and political structure in a particular space. The spatial statistical methods examine the relationships of the events and phenomena distributed on the space. With the spatial statistical methods can be observed whether reflects of particular structure on the space or not. The aim this study; determine spatial clusters of the voting rate of parties which entered parliament according to the results of the general election held in 2011. For this aim voting rate of 2011 obtained from TUIK were analyzed with G_i^* statististic and LISA (Local İndicator Of Spatial Assocation) spatial statistical methods. According to the analysis results has emerged the clustered region of each party’s votes different from other parties. Furthermore voting rate received by the parties different spatial patterns were observed in the country caused by the election results.