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

Figure 10

values of the goodness of fit to 1BL for 2015 (a) and 2016 (b) at the aggregation level of precincts. In every case the critical values for rejection at the 95 and 99% confidence level are shown. For a large majority we accept conformance to Benford’s law. Note that results are inconsistent with the hypothesis test based on MAD as reported in Figure 19.

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