fragmentacion_rae: Rae's fragmentation (electoral and parliamentary) vote...

In Relectoral: Electoral Analysis

Description

This indicator seeks to summarize in one value the level of dispersion or concentration of political power, that is to say, whether or not the seats or votes received are concentrated in a reduced number of political parties. The values of the index vary between 0 and 1, so that a value of zero indicates no fragmentation (all the votes go to a single party), while a value close to one indicates strong electoral fragmentation

Este indicador pretende resumir en un valor el nivel de dispersión o concentración del poder político, es decir y de forma resumida si se encuentra concentrado o no los escaños o votos recibidos en una serie de partidos polítcos. Los valores del índice varían entre 0 y 1, de forma que un valor cero indica no hay ninguna fragmentación ( todos los votos van a un sólo partido), mientras que un valor dercano a uno indica fuerte fragmentación electoral

The formula used for its calculation is as follows:

1-sum(qi^2)]

for i = 1, 2, …,n

Where q_i are the proportions (as parts per unit) of the number of seats or votes (electoral or parliamentary indicator), of the votes obtained by each candidate.

Usage

fragmentacion_rae(votes, seats)

Arguments

votes	It is a vector of integers, containing the votes of all the candidates.
seats	It is a vector of integers, containing the seats obtained by each of the candidates.

Value

Returns a dataframe, with the columns "electoral" and "parliamentary" to store respectively the value of the electoral or parliamentary fragmentation index.

Examples

fragmentacion_rae(c(3947,3189,1971,466,345,82),c(184,99,44,10,1,0))

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