A comparative study of the factors affecting the process and manner of participation of the citizens of Qazvin province in the ninth and tenth elections of the Islamic Consultative Assembly

This article examines and compares the factors affecting the process and manner of participation of citizens of Qazvin province in the two ninth and tenth parliamentary elections.In this article, factors such as the level of participation of citizens of the province, effective factors in determining this level of participation, the impact of development parameters, the pattern of citizens' voting based on ethnicity and city and other parameters have been analyzed.Then, according to the development parameters, the constituencies of Qazvin province were divided into two categories.According to the results, one of the factors affecting citizen participation is ethnicity and ethnicity. The results show that in the first constituency, which consists of mostly multi-ethnic cities, the factor of ethnicity is less and the voting behavior of citizens according to the pattern of participatory political culture and dynamic political behavior, and in the second category constituencies, which consist of mostly single ethnic cities The factor of more ethnicity and the voting behavior of citizens is in accordance with the pattern of subordinate political culture and passive political behavior.According to statistics, the turnout in the elections of the tenth term has decreased compared to the ninth term, which can be attributed to the citizens' distrust of the candidate's election slogans, economic factors and the effects of these factors, as well as the issue of disqualification of candidates.