@article{2019,title={Evaluation of The 2014 Local Elections in The Context of Municipal Council Membership with Clustering and Multidimensional Scaling Analysis: An Application in Hatay},abstractNode={This study was conducted in order to evaluate the 2014 local elections on the Hatay scale in the context of municipal council membership by means of clustering and multidimensional scaling analysis. In this way, there are differences and similarities between the districts of Hatay province, if there is difference and similarity, it is aimed to determine the districts and the reasons of this. As a result of the hierarchical clustering analysis, the districts of Hatay were grouped under 3 different clusters and the clustering was caused by the situation of the Republican People's Party (CHP). It was found to be. According to the multidimensional scaling analysis, it was observed that the districts were shown in 2 dimensions, the stress value explained the data by 99%, and there was a high degree of agreement between the results obtained with this analysis and the actual results. In addition, according to the analysis of the Hassa, Kirikhan and Yayladagi districts are perceived to be similar to the 1st dimension, the same as the Arsuz, Defne and Samandağ districts are considered to be similar among them and considered to be insignificant in the 1st dimension, in the second dimension, the differences between districts have similar distances It was found to be.},author={Abdullah Aydın},year={2019},journal={Journal of Academic Value Studies (JAVStudies)}}