Open AccessTerritorial expression of electoral activity of Lithuanian national minorities
Author(s) -
Dovydas Vidzbelis
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
geografijos metraštis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2335-8610
pISSN - 2424-3434
DOI - 10.5200/gm.2020.4
Subject(s) - lithuanian , census , geography , turnout , population , regional science , political science , commission , demographic economics , socioeconomics , demography , voting , sociology , law , politics , economics , philosophy , linguistics
The article presents territorial differentiation of the interrelationships of electoral (dependent) and different nationalities (independent) variables. In order to substantiate the relationship, mathematical-statistical methods, including correlation and regression were used. The main sources of the analysis was the data of 2016 and 2020 elections of Seimas, obtained from the Central Electoral Commission of the Republic of Lithuania and Statistics Lithuania’s data of different national minorities from 2011 population and housing census. The spatial level of the analysis is the census area. Research revealed a higher voter turnout in those areas, where national minorities constitute the majority of the population.