| dc.description.abstract | The study examined influence of Voter Education on Turnout considering a case of Mityana
District. The IV of the study was Voter Education measured in terms of Voter Training, Voter
Awareness Campaigns and Voter Outreaches while as the dependent variable was Electoral
Turnout measured in terms of Timeliness to vote, Demographic characteristic of voters,
Representativeness of voters and Total number of voters participating in an electoral process.
The target population was 311,131 respondents and a sample size of 118 respondents was
selected using SRS and purposive sampling as the sampling techniques.
Data was collected using Questionnaires, KII and Documentary Review. Both quantitative and
qualitative data was collected, quantitative data was analyzed using Descriptive statistics,
Regression, Pearson’s correlations and ANOVA while as qualitative data was analyzed using
thematic analysis.
The response rate was 85.6%, the study established a strong positive relationship between Voter
Training and Electoral Turnout with a correlation of 0.702, the R2 was 49.2% and P-value of
0.000. The study as well established a very strong positive relationship between Voter
Awareness Campaigns and Electoral Turnout with a Pearson’s correlation of 0.902, the R2
was
81.3% and the P-value was 0.000 and finally the study as well established a moderate positive
relationship between Voter Outreaches and Electoral Turnout with a Pearson’s correlation of
0.636, the R2 was 40.5% and the p-value was 0.000.
The study concluded that there is a positive relationship between Voter Training, Voter
Awareness Campaigns, Voter Outreaches and Electoral Turnout.
The study therefore recommended that electoral commission should put more emphasis on
improving Voter Awareness Campaigns, Voter Training and Voter Outreaches as measures to
improve Electoral Turnout. | en_US |
