Political Competition and Political Network: The Analysis of Lampang’s Chief Executive of the Provincial Administration Organization Election in 2020

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to review the competition of local politics in the election of the Chief Executive of Lampang Provincial Administration Organization during the past decade. The review is based on the perspectives in the political competition and the structural political network of the national politics which have influence on the political competition in the election of the chief executive of Lampang Provincial Administration Organization in 2020. The study results revealed one important aspect that the local political groups or the political groups which received support by the national political parties were capable in political competition and in arrangement of political network to run for the position. The result of the election of the Chief Executive of Lampang Provincial Administration Organization in 2020 demonstrated that the political groups with support from the national political parties and with political networks in Lampang Province played important roles and these factors had effects on the election result.