Birač kao subjekt izborne participacije
Voter as the Subject of the Electoral Participation

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the explication consists of the presentation of some fragments of the objective including of wider social strata into the of political determination in the frame of the electoral process. The constitutive elements of the object of work are based upon the phenomenon of majority and minority understood in political sense. The character analyzed phenomena claimed for an adapted methodological approach. In the sense of the temporal continuum, second, in the sense of the capability of exact data and subjective attitudes and opinions. Great majority of voters attend neither preliminary meetings for candidature not meetings for candidature, and their engagement in four electoral cycles in the period from 1963 to 1969 was in continuous nution. Such electoral behaviour of majority caused the increase member of meetings which could not be held and the increase of the n of meetings which meritoriously decided with the present voters only with smaller number than the electoral law provides. Expected acc to the electoral practice that has prevailed and unexpected according engagement and inclusion into the preliminary electoral activity great majority of voters used to come to polling stations and vote. Although response of voters is very numerous in the act of voting, during the mentioned four assembly's elections there was noticed the tendency of diminution. Fundamental motives which set the voter in motion to vote, judging according to the answers of some respondents in sample founded upon the following fact: first, upon the fact that voters id their act of voting with their loyalty towards the social-political system, second, on the act of fear of consequences if they would not join to a mass response; third, on the fact which more and more prevails, being aware about the importance of that act of engagement in political mutation. Minority of voters who attended the preliminary meetings and met for candidature, judging according to the results of the direct observation of work and determination of a definite number of these meetings, oriented to observe. In such a situation besides official organization of these meetings, a very important role has been played also by more a social-political workers, whose actions during explanations of’ some of suggestions had no common equal argumentation. Those actions were somewhere radical and convincing and somewhere incomplete and conventional, which partially caused some misunderstandings in certain situations. Minority of voters, who did not vote or voted incorrectly, showed the trend of slow rise. The category of incorrect voting leaflets is more numerous compared to the category of those who abstained in two last council elections, what did not happen in two first council elections after the latest Constitution. General engagement and including of voters into the voting process, as we have seen, is not satisfactory, so it would be necessary further adaptation and approaching of those factors which essentially influence upon the behaviour and political culture of voters concerning elections.

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