The Practice of Money Politics in Village Head Elections and Its Effect on The Participation Level of Beginner Voters

General election is a form of democratic system implementation. This carried out to the lowest level in government system, namely general village heads. However, practice, head process still not optimal due various forms fraud. One which practice money politics. Money politics aims influence voters' votes so that they are influenced choose candidate who provides them with assistance or goods and services. The case getting stronger run-up election, targets only voters have held elections before but also beginner voters. study aimed determine heads its effect on participation novice research method used descriptive quantitative. Data were collected through questionnaires interviews. data interpretation assisted statistical applications, SPSS, analyze data. results showed practices occurred Village Head Gampong Gunong Meulinteung 64 people (76%), 46 (57%), services 47 (58%). correlation test show value 0.276, where Election 2019 7.6%. It means it has little rest, amounting 92.4% voters, chose based other factors such as age, education, candidate’s personality. Therefore, all should be eliminated implementation democracy Indonesia can run well. In addition, necessary provide political education for hoped will task force acts eradicate cases