The first authority to express the demands and requests of the people of the neighborhood is the mukhtar authority. While the headman was an office that did not receive intense demand until 2015, it became very attractive after 2015. This attractive situation can be shown as the reason for the developments in the social and economic rights of the muhtars and the participation and acceptance of the Presidency meetings from time to time. After the office of the neighborhood became more attractive after 2015, with the encouragement of the headman candidates, the people started to move their addresses from their neighborhoods to neighborhoods they were born. The aim of the study is to bring the problem of changing the places of residence of the voters in the neighborhoods in the rural areas concerning mukhtar elections by not behaving ethically, not where they live, but in the neighborhoods where they were born, to choose the headman they want to the agenda. In this context, Malatya province Akçadağ district and neighbourhoods were taken as sample, and the population change movements of the neighborhoods in Akçadağ district between 2017 and 2018 were investigated before the mukhtar elections on March 31, 2019. After the research conducted, it was found that significant population changes occurred in the district districts between 2017 and 2018, many of the neighborhoods in the rural areas of Akçadağ district experienced more than 2 times more population growth compared to 2017, and the population decreased again in 2019.
Keywords: Local People, Local Elections, mukhtar, voters
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