The Involvement of the Karya Youth Bond in the Election of Candidates in the 2020 Karo Regency Regional Head Election

Abstract

The position of community organizations in the run-up to the implementation of the Regional Head Elections does have extraordinary allure. This is because mass organizations have resources in the form of influential figures, and the breadth of bases owned by mass organizations has the potential to gain vote support for candidate pairs in regional head elections. So many mass organizations have participated in the democratic party, especially the Karya Youth Association, in the Karo regional head election. From the results of the author's analysis, the Karya Youth Association community organization is a community organization that has political power in the Karo regional head election and is quite significant in winning the Cory Sebayang and Theophilus Ginting pair in the 2020 Karo regional head election. The method used in this research uses qualitative research methods in a descriptive-qualitative way. The descriptive-qualitative method is a type of research that aims to describe and answer the problems to be studied by studying individual groups of events in more detail. From the researcher's analysis, it is concluded that the Karya Youth Association had a significant influence in the election of Cory Sebayang-Theopilus Ginting for the role of the Karya Youth Association, namely, organizational role, campaign role, strategic role, social role, mobilization role, winning role, and post-election role. The factors behind the Karya Youth Association's support for the Cory Sebayang and Theophilus Ginting pair include emotional closeness, incumbency, and economic factors.