Elections are considered the main stage from which the edifice of modern democracy has been erected. If we talk from the perspective of Pakistan, the general concept of elections has always been under harsh debate. Every end of five years, the general elections are held under the supervision of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP). The chemistry of voting behavior in Pakistan is entirely bleak and scarce.
A voter's electoral behavior is a function of multiple factors that influences his/her choice of casting vote. Similarly, political behavior is also a function of all these situations in which actors [the voter, politician & society] find themselves and bring out their underlying predispositions. In these circumstances, there is a push-pull relationship among the multifaceted influences of candidates, voters, parties, issues over each other and of the other ones which are characterized as caste, race, language, family, class, religion, ideology, and local intercommunicating channels on the choice of the voter.
As witnessed in the last many decades, elections have been exploited, and rigging remained on top in the local, provincial, and national elections. The question here arises that how far we have conceptualized the role of socio-political variables and their influence over the psyche of voters of Pakistan. This is the reason where a good number of voters are directly influenced by job, cash, and religion but not by the political vision and ideology. In such a situation, a leader is measured by the trick of voters' exploitation, financial embezzlement, and nepotism. In short, there is a dire need for the study of Psephology and Psychology from the local union level to make a mechanism to counter this political behavior of a voter.
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