Identification and Representation of Static and Dynamic Districts in the Geography of Elections in Guilan Province

Subject Areas : Geopolitic

Zahra  Pishgahi Fard ¹ (ندارد)
Roghayeh  Sharifi Chaboki ² (ندارد)

Received: 2011-07-25 Accepted : 2012-01-25 Published : 2011-12-22

Keywords: Parties, Political Faction, Static District, Dynamic District, Guilan&#x0D, &#x0D, Province,

Abstract :

After the Islamic Revolution in Iran, during the years since 1979 to 2011, we haveobserved 8 terms of parliament elections in Iran. During these terms, political partiesand factions played an important and sensitive role in elections and assignation ofparliament members.The main goal of this paper is to identify and discover dynamic and static districtsbased on factions and representatives in 8 terms of parliament election after theIslamic Revolution of Iran. The studied district in this research is Guilan Province thathas highly participated in political cooperation and elections in Iran during 8 terms ofparliament elections.This paper with analytical method and by using Geographical Information System(GIS) is attempting to answer the following questions that if there is dynamic andstatic districts for factions and representatives in Guilan Province? In case of existenceof static districts, political direction of the selective districts of Guilan Province istoward which party?The gained results in this research show that during 8 terms of elections of theIslamic Parliament in Guilan Province, some of elective districts of Guilan Provinceare dynamic and some other are static, and tendency of major of representatives andresidences of selective districts are toward right party.