Political Movements and Voting Behavior in the 2023 House of Representatives Election: A Case Study of Pattani Province
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The research objectives are to study political movements in general elections and to study the election behavior of people in the 2023 general election of members of the House of Representatives of Pattani Province. The researcher applied a qualitative research method and used in-depth interviews to collect the data. The number of key informants was 20 people. They were selected by the purposive sampling technique. All participants consisted of 1) political groups, totaling 5 people; 2) voters, totaling 7 people; 3) groups of candidates, totaling 3 people; and 4) civil society groups, totaling 5 people. The results showed that 1) political movements during the 2023 general election of Pattani Province have two main important contexts. Firstly, the political context before the election consists of the 2023 general election conditions that were adjusted in terms of the electoral system and constituencies. The political context, secondarily, during the election period consisted of election recruitment, the presentation of political party policies, the Ramadan campaign, and campaign activities through the Patani Peace Issue and Campaign through Public Relations Media. 2) There are 4 important issues relevant to the behavior of voters in the 2023 general election. Firstly, the political attitudes and perceptions of the people of Pattani Province were alert and interested in the new criteria of the general election. The second was the behavior of vote buying, which was receiving money and receiving sports shirts. The number of ballot papers increased from the previous election to 94.59 percent from 92.19 percent. The number of invalid ballots decreased to 3.48 percent from 6.81 percent. The result of the general election in Pattani province was that the Prachachat Party won 3 seats. The Democratic Party won 1 seat. The Palang Pracharath Party won 1 seat. Moreover, the Prachachat Party got the highest score of party-list proportional representation.
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