Ethno-Political Effects of Suburbanization in the Vilnius Urban Region: An Analysis of Voting Behavior

Rūta Ubarevičienė, Donatas Burneika and Maarten van Ham

Journal of Baltic Studies, 2015, vol. 46, issue 2, 217-242

Abstract: We use electoral data to analyze the ethno-political consequences that may arise from the fact that the region surrounding the city of Vilnius is dominated by residents with a Polish identity, while those who move to the suburbs are mainly ethnic Lithuanians. In the suburban ring we found increasing voting turnout, a decreasing share of votes for the Polish party, and an increase of the absolute number of votes for this party. The changing electoral behavior might be an indicator of growing ethno-political tensions and the zones of the most intense changes identify areas of potential social tensions between ethnic groups.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/01629778.2015.1027935

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