The Study of Nine Periods of Presidential Election with Emphasis on Ninth Period Case Study: South Khorasan

Subject Areas : Geopolitic

زهرا Pishgqahifard ¹ (ندارد)
عمران Rasti ² (ندارد)

Received: 2015-01-13 Accepted : 2015-01-13 Published : 2006-01-21

Keywords: Convergence, Divergence, Periphery areas, Participation progress, Degree of participation, Political wings, Fundamentalist, Reformist,

Abstract :

Participation in election is a sign of nation's interest to preservation and continuation ofthe territory, promotion of the governance and their belief to the effect of their voteand thought on national decisions.Democratic countries consider election as the highest manifestation of people'participation and declare the degree of solidity of democracy in that country inproportion to the degree of peoples' participation in their own destiny.The Islamic Republic of Iran which is based on Democratic governmental lawsand Islamic –Religious thoughts emphasizes on any participation in national destinyincluding election and considers it as peoples' trust to the authorities.As one of four groups of regular elections, the presidential election in Iran, is themost manifest perspective of political participation of nation which has the mostnumber of participants compared to other elections.That which gives senses to this election in national territory sphere, is thedifferences and the similarities which can be seen behind the geography of election.This article is derived from a research on the study of nine periods of presidentialelection in South Khorasan province, which aims at studying and describing ofdifferences and similarities of the degree of participation and the way of peoples'electoral behavior in different districts in the province.