The Social and Economic Bases of Party Political Support in Serekunda, the Gambia

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Title:	The Social and Economic Bases of Party Political Support in Serekunda, the Gambia
Author:	Wiseman, John A.
Year:	1985
Periodical:	Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics
Volume:	23
Issue:	1
Period:	March
Pages:	3-29
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Gambia
Subjects:	urban society popular participation multiparty systems Politics and Government Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
External link:	https://doi.org/10.1080/14662048508447463
Abstract:	Taking one town in The Gambia, the author establishes the socio-economic background of the supporters of the two major parties, the People's Progressive Party and the National Convention Party, (and those who do not support either), by questioning the electorate rather than the party elite. The results of the questionnaire survey show no evidence of all members of any particular social or economic grouping supporting the same party or of one party recruiting most of its support from a single group. In all the wide range of variables discussed - ethnicity, place of origin, languages spoken, literacy, age, sex, religion, occupation, trade union membership - neither party receives overwhelming support from any single significant category. - App., maps, notes, tab.