Pemilihan Kepala Daerah Lampung Selatan: Telaah Pengaruh Pendidikan Politik, Komunikasi Politik dan Sosial Ekonomi terhadap Partisipasi Politik

The decreasing of public’s politics participation phenomenon on Regional Head Election of Lampung Selatan District was about 72 % on 2010 and 65% on 2015. Based on average counts of Regional Head Election 2015, Kalianda Sub District was the lowest. This is a quantitative study with explanatory method. The 250 samples were determined by using  proportional area random sampling. The result shows that the public’s political education was categorized low. Meanwhile, Kalianda Sub District has a high number for public’s politics communication or the other words publics have a good political communication to the candidates. The public’s economic status in Kalianda Sub District is categorized as high enough, on the other words that people already have a good living for both in economy and social. Based on statistical test result, Political Education  has an  impact to the politics participation partially by t count  > t table as 3,630 > 1,977, with 43,3% amount of  impact. The political Communication has an impact to politics participation about 4,260 > 1,977 on t count > t table, with 62,2% impact. Social Economics status has an impact by t count > t table  about 3,315 > 1,977, with 48% amount of  impact. Whereas, political education, political communication, and Social Economics status have an impact with the review  Fcount > Ftable (68,957 > 2,710 ) and 51,2%  amount of impact.