AUTHOR=Hernández-Saldaña H. 

TITLE=Geopolitical Inhomogeneities in the Registered Voters’ Distribution and Their Influence in the Voters’ Participation Ratio Distribution: The Mexican Case

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics

VOLUME=Volume 7 - 2021

YEAR=2021

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/applied-mathematics-and-statistics/articles/10.3389/fams.2021.518371

DOI=10.3389/fams.2021.518371

ISSN=2297-4687

ABSTRACT=Stylized facts appear in electoral processes, from Brazil to India. Here, we update a statistics carried on in Mexican elections but considering the inhomogeneities in electoral districts through the nominal list , NL,(the list of valid electors in a given decision process). The usual assumption of a gaussian distribution is contrasted with the data from the last three presidential elections. We find that taken in to account the inhomogeneities we find  a better fitting theoretical probability distribution. Such a  function is a skewed gaussian, that is close to the experimental one, at least for the bulk part. The results is regardless from municipality, political district or urban vs non-urban distinction. We argue that the observed asymmetry is just a consequence of the correlation in the variables and no only to the constrain in the sample. Hence, the distribution of the voters participation ratio is not a gaussian or a truncated gaussian.