Partisipasi Pemilih Dalam Pemilihan Umum Presiden Dan Wakil Presiden Tahun 2019 Di Kota Mataram

Abstract

Elections are a means of democratic experience. It can be said that there is no democracy without elections. However, elections are not an objective, but as a means of electing parliamentarians and executive leaders at the central and regional levels. In the concurrent elections on 17 April 2019 which were held throughout Indonesia, including the Election Commission of Mataram City which had recorded the number of DPT in Mataram City amounted to 278,358. This study uses political culture theory (Gaffar 2004), types of political culture (Davies and Lewis, 1971), voter participation (McClosky in Miriam Budiardjo 2008), as a knife for analysis and as an instrument for researchers to examine in depth about voter participation in presidential elections and vice president in 2019 in the city of Mataram. The research methodology used is a qualitative approach with a descriptive analysis method. Descriptive analysis methods are used to get a systematic, factual, and accurate picture of the facts, the characteristics and the relationship between the phenomena under investigation.The conclusion of this study is the number of people participating in Mataram City up to 222,687 voters, and looking at the results of research between active voter participation models and apathetic voters, the people of Mataram are included in active voters with 60% while apathetic voters are 40%.