influence of voting behavior on political participation in north sumateragovernor election year 2018 particularly in stabat sub-district

The purpose of this research is to analyze influence of voting behavior on political participationin north sumatera governor election year 2018 particularly in stabat sub-district. the research methodused is quantitative method. population of this research is all residents of stabat sub-district who havebeen registered as permanent voters (dpt) in number of 57.181 people (dpt of stabat sub-district in2018: regional election comission langkat district). sample of this research is taken by using slovinformula with 5% precision and it obtains sample of 397 people. the technique of data collection isthrough questionnaire and documentation. data analysis is performed through product momentcorrelation, hypothesis test of t test, f test, and determination test. result of the simultaneous test showsthat significant value (sig) in f test is 0,000. because 0,000<0,05 there is significant influence betweenvariable x and variable y in which voting behavior and political participation in north sumateragovernor election of 2018. from the product moment correlation test, the most influential approachamong the three voting behavior approaches in which sociological (x1), psychological (x2), and rational(x3) towards variable y, voters participation, is the rational approach.