Hol vannak a választók?
Where Are Hungarian Voters? The Spatial Dimensions of Election Research – Antecedents (an electoral geographic approach)

Summary/Abstract: Numerous experts choose the political elections for their research topic, no matter which branch of science they belong to. Political science is not the only one to deal with the issue of elections. From history, sociology, geography, philosophy, etc., all the way to modern game-theory for instance, each intends to describe and explain the features of this social event. In the second part of the 20th century, due to the rapid development of quantitative methods in social studies, more sophisticated methodology (GIS, for instance) has become available to doing research and to finding relations between the features of the society and their voting habit. Researching of the Hungarian elections does not have a great tradition like in Western Europe or even in the Unites States. Needless to say, the historical circumstances of the 20th century made it impossible. In the past twenty years, this kind of work has been published by a great variety of authors of different background, as it was mentioned above. Our goal with this paper is to compare some socio economic indicators with the level of the participation in the local and the parliamentary elections; however, we do not want to explain the results directly with them. We examine the possible relation at the local level as well as at the county levels.

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