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Voters outside of Kelantan tends to vote for PAS compared to other political parties, even though they live in the Klang Valley. Fundamentally, the people in Klang Valley in the majority do not support PAS as the people in Kelantan. Therefore, this paper aims to discuss the forms of political culture of voters outside of Kelantan which reside around Klang Valley. This research involved 403 Malay voters outside of Kelantan, aged 21 years old and above that reside at Klang Valley but still cast their vote at Kelantan. This research implemented the quantitative approach through the survey method which utilised the feedback forms. The respondents in this research were chosen through purposeful sampling method and snowball sampling method. The data for this research were analysed descriptively and through ANOVA test. The result of this research found that the political culture of voter outside of Kelantan is in the form of subjectivity. This subjective political culture refers to society accepting one sided output only without questioning what, why and how that matters happen. This shows that individual relationship with the political system is passive and behave obediently. This type of society does not questions much and accept the explanation from certain parties without investigating the authenticity of the information involved in the explanation. This type of society is usually hardcore supporters of a political party. The implication of this form of political culture cause the voters to become recklessly obedient, compliant and unable to make decisions rationally until they are considered to be in a captive state of mind. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Voters are an important component of the election. Voters will vote in an election based on their party's sentiments or leader's personality. Therefore, it is the purpose of this study to study the influence of party sentiment and personality of leadership of voters political choice in the Chempaka constituency, Kelantan. In order to achieve the objectives of the study, two research methods were used, namely, a questionnaire on 377 respondents based on the geographical location of urban and rural areas in the study area; and references to related secondary sources. Subsequently, data from the questionnaires were analyzed using the SPSS software and presented in the form of tables and the writing of the results of this study was confirmed with relevant secondary sources. The findings show that respondents in the study area wanted political criteria that have the people who prioritize the people, able to generate people's development and eradicate poverty and fairness to all parties. The personality characteristics of the leaders desired by the respondents in the study area are to be honest and trustworthy of the responsibilities, net of corruption and leaders who prioritize the welfare of the people. Hence, this research findings can be used as a general reference guide or guide to all parties, especially political parties and the government to examine issues and problems in the study area so that the parties involved are more sensitive in meeting the needs and needs of the community as possible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]