yousef ansari

Focuses on the impact of neighborhood and tribalism is one of the prospecting on election geography that explores how geographic contexts and circumstances affect the voter behavior. Based on this presumption that people in a residential area are largely similar to one another in terms of characteristics and social, economic, and cultural identities, they vote for the persons or the movements that suppose they have also the same feeling. The election of the Islamic Consultative Assembly in the provinces of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer Ahmad clearly demonstrates this. In such a way, by hosting multiple election cycles in this area, the neighborhood, particularly its central clan dimension, has had a tremendous impact on the election results. The question that this study tries to answer is what impact did the neighborhood have on the Kohgiluyeh, Cheram, Bahmai, and Landeh constituencies in the 11th election of the Islamic Consultative Assembly? According to the library studies and field findings (observation and interview) in the aforementioned electoral area, there is a direct correlation between the impact of neighborhood and tribalism and the voting rate of candidates. Therefore, based on the data and statistical information that make up the candidates' ballot boxes, the majority of the candidates’ votes are in the territory of their tribe and their neighborhood. This study followed a descriptive-analytical research method. The data gathering method for this study was a documentary and field, and GIS and Excel software was used to analyze data. It was determined that neighborhood and tribal tendencies played a clear and significant role in the election of the aforementioned constituency, and each city in this constituency has been affected by the neighborhood and hometown effect proportionately to its population. The most and the least neighborhood and clan characteristics have been used in the populated cities (Kohgiluyeh and Behmai) and the sparsely populated cities (Landeh and Cheram), respectively, to support the candidate of the territory.

A subfield of political geography is election geography, which investigates issues of election geography, including the spatial layout of elections, the diversity of spatial voting patterns, and the impact of spatial and geographical factors on electors' decisions. The neighborhood voting pattern is one of the diverse voting patterns that voters typically use to express their preferences for various candidates in accordance with their needs, convictions, and way of life. In accordance with this model, voters from a community who inhabit in a particular geographic location, such as a neighborhood, village, city, or province, identify with candidates who were born or now reside there and believe that the candidate from that particular area of their hometown, more aware of their challenges and issues then they support him more. This study aims to examine how neighborhood and tribe tendencies varied in the 11th Islamic Consultative Assembly term in the Boyer Ahmad Dana and Margun constituencies. GIS and EXCEL software were employed in the descriptive and analytical study method to better represent the problem. The research's conclusions lead to the neighborhood variable, hometown tendencies, and tribal tendencies are the most significant influencing factors on the voting pattern of the electoral candidates of the aforementioned constituency. On the other hand, it was discovered that the impact of the neighborhood is greater in some cities and districts (Boyrahmad and Dana) and less in some locations and spaces by examining the quantity and intensity of neighborhoods among clans and ethnic groups residing in the cities of the said constituency (Margun). These differences are brought about by how many people live in the cities indicated.