First-time voters motivation for parliamentary elections in Ricany 2010

Author of this thesis is undertaking a study of an act of voting in a town Říčany during election to the Parliament of the Czech Republic in 2010. A research is looking for the aspects, which can influence the acting of first-voters before they go to the elections. Young people often discuss their choice with members of any social group (parents, friends, siblings) and political parties try to focus on these young people, appeal on them and motivate them to give a vote to that political party. The goal of this thesis is to find out, which social group influences the first-voters in Říčany most, what position takes the family and if the first-voters are a single voting unit, which is good to study. This thesis contains a brief history of Říčany, results of elections to Parliament in 2006 and 2010 and there are the election campaigns of that parties which took place in Parliament in 2006 and 2010. A single part of the campaigns represents the campaign focused on young people. Part of chapters with the election results, there are motivations of voters written. The crucial part of the thesis is a questionnaire sent between the respondents from the city in a target group. On the base of these anonymous questionnaire results, the hypothesis are confirmed or declined