Research Article

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

Figure 18

Focusing on the bimodal distribution for the conservative party that emerges in the heat map of Figure 16, here we show in a spatial map of Spain where we assign a brown color to those municipalities that belong to the larger cluster (high vote share) and a turquoise color to those that belong to the smaller cluster (low vote share). We find that the low vote share clusters are predominantly linked with Catalonia and the Basque Country, the two areas of Spain with some proindependence aspirations. No obvious change is perceived between 2015 and 2016.