Abstract:
This research aims to study the participation of people in local election of Nongwaeng Municipality, Lahansai District, Buriram Province, in three factors: election campaigning, casting vote, monitoring and evaluating. The sample is obtained from population by fixing the size of sample in the table of Krejc and Morgan. The sample comprises of 375 people which is distributed to various villages by simple random sampling. The tool used to collect the data is three types of questionnaire: checklist, rating scale of six levels and open-end form. The value of reliability is obtained at 0.9483. The basic statistics used to analyze data is percentage, mean and standard devioation. From the research it is found that: 1. The participation of people in local election of Nongwaeng Municipality, Lahansai District, Buriram Province, in general scored is in moderate level, whereas in each factor, it is found that casting vote is highly scored, election campaigning scored is in moderate level and the monitoring and evaluating of election scored is in low level. The factor that carries value from high level to lower level is arranged as follows: casting vote, election campaigning, monitoring and evaluating election respectively. 2. The opinion and suggestion that is mostly found that the chance should be open to people to participate in any activity and secondly, election should be informed to public relation, and thirdly, the chance should be given to peopleto check and monitor the performance of Municipality respectively.