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Tuesday, April 01, 2014

Is Something Rotten In Ankara’s Mayoral Election? A Very Preliminary Statistical Analysis | Erik Meyersson

Is Something Rotten In Ankara’s Mayoral Election? A Very Preliminary Statistical Analysis
Posted on April 1, 2014 by Erik

(Note: This post may get updated as additional information on Ankara’s election comes in)

Having today seen tweets on numerous alleged voting irregularities in Turkey and thanks to Twitter user @erenyanik I came across this CHP/STS dataset of voting data in the Greater Municipality of Ankara, one of the tightly contested (less than a percentage point in the vote share) mayor elections between Melih Gökçek and Mansur Yavaş. The dataset includes 12,230 ballot boxes across 1,682 voting locations in 25 districts in Ankara. I didn’t collect the data itself and therefore this analysis should be taken as highly preliminary.

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