Bipartisanship Breakdown, Functional Networks, and Forensic Analysis in Spanish 2015 and 2016 National Elections

Figure 13

Scatter plot of the MAD (a, c) and (b, d) statistics extracted from the 1BL test of each precinct as a function of the number of municipalities in each precinct for years 2015 (a, b) and 2016 (c, d). In the case of MAD, we find a negative correlation as expected, but this correlation is not enough to explain the systematic nonconformance to 1BL. In the case of there is no perceivable size effect.

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