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Hypothesis 7: The higher the voter age being the youth (18-39years) in a district, the lower the voter turnout. (H) Ethnic heterogeneity of a district. Ethnicity relates to a particular race, nation, or tribe and their customs and traditions. While heterogeneity refers to different groups of relatively equal size located in the same community. Ghana’s population, which is currently estimated at about 22 million, is a huge mixture of big and small ethnic groups. The major ones are the Akan, Mole Dagbani, Ewe, Ga-Dangme, Guan, and Gurme. According to the 2000 census data, the predominant ethnic group, Akan Constituted 8, 562, 748 or (49.1%) of the population occupying five out of the ten regions in Ghana. The Akan constitutes the predominant ethnic group in the Brong Ahafo region, and in all the districts, except Sene, where the Guan constitutes the largest ethnic group. The Mole Dagbon constitutes the second largest ethnic group in the region and in all districts, except Sene and Atebubu. Even though the New Patriotic Party and the National Democratic Congress, the two dominant parties enjoy much support from Akan and Ewe ethnic groups respectively at the national level elections, there is no data or previous studies to furnish us with information on political behaviour of people belonging to different ethnic groups at the district level elections since the district level one is non-partisan. However, it has been observed that ethnicity always becomes a deciding factor about who should be elected to the various District Assemblies in the districts where ethnic heterogeneity is clear and obvious. The reasons for this state of affairs are that; (1) The different groups try to push their members to the Assemblies for social recognition of their ethnic groups since Assembly The is provided by UK Assignment http://www.szdhsjt.commembers, particularly in the rural districts are regarded as honourable and powerful members of the communities. (2) Because of nepotism and the ‘winner-takes-all’ politics in Ghana, people in highly heterogonous districts always want to get closer to the reign of power as a means to secure maximum benefits to their members and voting is the way to increase the political power of one’s group. Therefore, there is propensity for people in these districts to vote in the local level elections. According to Friday (2007: 302), ‘ethnicity is an extremely significant although not deciding factor in Ghanaian elections’. Posner (2005: 227) arrives at essentially similar results, viz. that ethnic voting really matter in rural areas, and that ‘the pattern of tribal voting (…) is more pronounced in the one-party elections than in the multi-party elections’. Hypothesis 7: The higher the ethnic heterogeneity of a district, the higher the voter turnout. CHAPTER THREE: METHODOLOGY OF THE STUDY. INTRODUCTION This section outlines and justifies the used of the quantitative method to conduct the research in arriving at the final results. It also describes challenges encountered on the field and the criteria for selecting the Brong Ahafo Region as study area. |
