Party Identification as a Female Voting Determinant in Karak, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: A Case Study of 2018 General Elections

Abstract

This article investigates the electoral behaviour of females in district Karak, Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, and the case study is the 2018 general elections. This study
tests the theory of party identification while using a quantitative research method. The
data is collected through questionnaires from the field. Four hundred respondents have
been selected out of the total of 178,504 female registered voters for elections of
district Karak through Taro Yamane's Formula. The researchers have utilised a
stratified sampling technique to gather reliable data of proportionate sampling figures
from the female registered voters for the general election 2018 in NA-34 in district
Karak. Therefore, the proportional allocation method of sampling, i.e., n1=N1/Ni x ni, is
used to select the number of respondents from each tehsil according to the sample size.
The study evaluates the role of party identification in describing female voting
behaviour. The study's findings show that party affiliation is a critical determinant of
NA-34 in the 2018 general elections in Karak, Pakistan.