Between piety and secularism: tracing voter preferences in Turkey’s religious and secular heartlands

Abstract

There is no suspicion that there are many factors that affect voting conduct. The question of what these factors are has been asked by many professions and numerous studies have been conducted on the subject. The main objective of the questions asked in field studies on the subject is which factors are more effective in the vote choice of the voters. The data obtained from these analyses, which are mostly done by political sociology, are utilized effectively in the areas of political communication and political public relations.

In this analysis, the answer to the question of what factors are useful in the vote preferences was sought in the ranking of the cities of Konya and Antalya in Turkey. Konya is known as Turkey’s most religious and conservative city, and Antalya is the most secular and liberal city. Thus, it will be possible to reach more intriguing findings through the comparisons between the databases of those two contrasting cities at the end of the analysis.