An Analysis of the Impact of the Born Urban Canvas on the Tenth Islamic Council Elections in the Constituency of Firoozabad Fars

Document Type : Original Research

Author
H. Makuoii
Geography Department, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran
Abstract
Since the17th century, holding elections has been a common mechanism for the realization of Pro-democracy. Elections are an official decision-making process in which people or a section of the population put themselves or one person to a public office for public office by casting ballots. In the district of Firoozabad, the city's canonical inquiry has affected the candidate's choice in all periods. This article seeks to investigate how the people of Firoozabad city participate in the tenth Islamic consultative assembly election from a political-territorial perspective in Iran's territorial zone. To show that the spatial pattern of people's participation in the elections to the Islamic consultative assembly has been. The present study uses detailed results of elections and spatial statistics functions to express the spatial pattern of the residents of Firoozabad city to each of the candidates in the election. The results show that the participation pattern of people in Firoozabad city is not the same and different in different periods. The spatial pattern of votes reflects the strong focus of the candidate's choice of votes, (Except for the seventh and eighth seasons), according to the born urban canvas of Firoozabad city have been.


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Political Organizing of Space
Volume 1, Issue 4 - Serial Number 4
December 2019
Pages 261-268