Research on Political Awareness and Voting Behavior of Male and Female voter in the 19th General Election
Focused on the 4 Electoral Districts with Female Candidates
Won-Hong Kim
Hae-Young Kim
This research was conducted to identify the general political awareness and voting behavior of male and female voters in the 19th General Election held in Apr 2012. The telephone survey was carried out from Jun 18th to 29th 2012 on 250 voters in each of the 4 electoral districts with female candidates, for a total of 1,000 voters. The results of the survey showed that about 70.3% of the respondents have positive view about the female candidate and answered that the reason is because they believe ‘the female candidate is expected to do a better job in governing the district’. The respondents who answered that they have negative opinions about the female candidate cited ‘the lack of expertise’ as the major reason for their answers. Approximately 57.4% of the respondents said that women should be better represented in the politics, highlighting the significance of raising women’s representation in the national political arena. It is high time that we should look into the current status of women’s representation in politics and seek measures to improve their representation in the future political arena.
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