Ethnicity in Female Voting Behaviour: A Case Study of 2018 General Elections in NA-34, District Karak, Pakistan

Abstract

This article analyses the female voting behaviour regarding family affiliations as voting
determinants in the NA-34 in the 2018 General Elections. The study tested the theory of
ethnicity and used a quantitative research method to collect data. Four hundred
respondents registered as female voters in the 2018 General Elections were selected as
a study population for the questionnaire. Taro Yamane's formula was used to find the
sample size most appropriate for this quantitative study. Through Taro Yamane's
Formula, the sample size is obtained by selecting 400 respondents out of 178504
female registered voters for the 2018 General Elections of District Karak, Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. A stratified sampling technique was used for sampling the
respondents. Data was analysed through SPSS software, and a T-test was applied. It had
been analysed that (61.65%) of females could not cast their votes based on their family
affiliations, which means the female constituency of NA-34 in Karak did not support the
theory of ethnicity.