The Motivations of Local Election of Loei Citizen

Abstract

Elections are means of developing democracy and the local decentralization is important. The purpose of academic research were to 1)  study the motivations of local election of people in Chaiyapruek Subdistrict Administrative Organization, Muang District, Loei Province, 2) compare the motivations of local election of people in Chaiyapruek Subdistrict Administrative Organization, Muang District, Loei Province to sore out of gender and occupation and 3) the development guidelines for the right to vote at the local in Loei Province. Quantitative research,  The sample were 369 of people who have the right to vote in Chaiyapruek Subdistrict Administrative Organization to be taken by Taro Yamane. Research tools were questionnaire rating scale have reliability situations .974. Analyzed by percentage, mean, standard deviation, independent sample t-test and F-test. The results show that  (1) the motivations of local election of people in Chaiyapruek Subdistrict Administrative Organization, Muang District, Loei Province were high rank follow: economic, community participation and social. (2) None significant as a whole of the motivations of local election of people different gender and occupation and rejects the hypothesis. (3) the development guidelines for the right to vote at the local in Loei Province were: the ballot box should be modern, election commission and people should follow the measures to prevent Covid 19 and  give masks distributed to all voters.