Voting Patterns Throughout The World

A common experience in most developing countries is the struggle and blood shed the countries have been through to install a multi party system as a way of democracy. One-party-dominance that previously was the electoral practice in most developing countries led to traumatic events authoritarianism. In India, the one-party dominance system has remained vibrant since they have found ways to incorporate liberal democracy. (Speiss, 2009, p5)

Voting pattern and behavior in Kenya is along the ethnic and economic divide; the voters believe that the ethnic group that clinches the electoral post is the ethnic group that would be in power and control. An ethnic group believes that if the president or a particular minister comes from their ethnicity, then cases of unemployment will be efficiently addressed. Wealth will also be distributed more towards their location than equal distribution and so when the voters go out to vote, they do not do it for the country’s best but for their own ethnicity. Another determinant in the voting patterns that has been discovered in Kenya is that voters want to associate with the winning team; they believe that the incumbent party shall maintain the glory and as such they will not ‘waste’ their vote on a party that is doomed to lose for the virtue of being on the opposition. Kenya is highly influenced by ethnic blocs and alignment for the virtue of being a multi ethnic nation. Unlike other developing countries where religion has been said to play a key role in the election process, Kenyan voters are not easily inclined the religious way. Case in point is their 2007 general elections and the 2010 constitution referendum. During the 2007 general election, most of the church clergy took politics to the pulpi...

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