A study of public servant voting preferences at Sibu Municipal Council / Frankie Jampi and Jerry Jimbon

The voting preferences among the public servants are vary from each other as they can be influenced by many factors such as the party represented by the political candidate, race and religion of the candidate, and gender of the candidate. Even though they are working with the
government but these factors can still influences their voting preferences. It means that, it is not necessarily they will vote for the government even though they serve them. The random sampling had been used in determining the preferences of 364 staffs in Sibu Municipal Council. Among these staffs, only 112 of them answered the questionnaires distributed to them. Based on the research, the voting preferences of the public servants are mostly influenced by the personality of the candidate. On the other hand, the gender, and the race and religion of the
candidates are actually does not have significant influence towards the voting preferences of the public servants. It means that, the public servants voting preferences does not being affected by the differences of the gender, race and religion among the political candidates. Apart from that, there are some approaches which can be taken in order to improve the political system. Among the approaches are to represent the local political party, ethnicity and personality as well as to recommend that the government should always hear the public opinion in their administration.