COMMENTATE: Journal of Communication Management
Vol. 2 No. 2 (2021): COMMENTATE: Journal of Communication Management

Political Communication Strategy in Legislative Elections: A Case Study of Nasrul in the Period of 2019-2024 in Payakumbuh City

Muhammad Danil (Sekolah Tinggi Agama Islam Negeri Mandailing Natal)
Erliza Fitri (Universitas Islam Negeri Imam Bonjol)



Article Info

Publish Date
20 Dec 2021

Abstract

This study discusses the political communication carried out by Nasrul in the 2019–2024 legislative elections in Payakumbuh City. The focus of this research is on the elected candidates from the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) due to being elected as a member of the DPRD Payakumbuh City with the most votes. The author assumes that his victory was motivated by good political communication. This research is a field research with a qualitative approach, while data collection is carried out through interviews with direct respondents Nasrul as the main source and secondary sources are the head of the PKS faction, a team of volunteers, community leaders who were selected based on sampling. The purpose of this study was to "know about the political communication used by Nasrul in the legislative elections" in Payakumbuh City for the 2019-2024 period. The results of this study, get the following conclusions: first, the political communication strategy used by Nasrul: 1) Nasrul uses the style of public relations communication (building relationships with the community). 2) Delivering political messages in the form of vision and mission. 3) Using media outside the campaign space such as stickers and calendars. 4) The effectiveness of Nasrul's political communication that is getting support in the form of voting in the legislative elections with acquiring 986 votes in electoral districts III (East Payakumbuh and North Payakumbuh).  

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commentate

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Subject

Humanities Decision Sciences, Operations Research & Management Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Library & Information Science Social Sciences

Description

The objective of COMMENTATE: Journal of Communication Management is to encourage research related but not limited to: 1. Corporate communication. Communication that involves a set of activities with external and internal stakeholders to create favourable conditions. 2. Media communication. ...