Abstract
We analyze proportional election data to show the influence of parties
on the results of this kind of election. The study compiles data from
different countries and dates to show that depending on how the
candidate's votes are Counted, one can find that these votes have
different distributions. When considering the fraction of votes received
by the candidates, the vote distribution has a power law behavior with exponent alpha = 1 for all cases studied. However, this universal
behavior is modified when we normalize the fraction of votes by the mean
number of votes of the candidate's party. Considering this
normalization, the Brazilian and the Finnish results are now different.
The former follows an exponential while the latter a log-normal
distribution. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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