Benford's Law, also called the First-Digit Law, is often used to verify numeric data for fraud or manipulations. Main principle of the Law: "the digits in real world appear disproportionately. The smaller number, the more frequently it appears." According to the Law, digit 1 appears goes first in 30% of numbers, digit 2 - in 17.6%, and 9 - only in 4.58%. This law was proved many times: river pool areas, population of countries, height of buildings, financial and sociological data – all of...

While processing the voting results, we noticed an interesting fact: there are polling stations, where the certain parties didn't receive any votes. For example, the People's Front didn't receive any votes at 131 polling stations, the Petro Poroshenko Block – at 73 polls. However, the most interesting is how many polling stations gave zero votes for the Communist Party of Ukraine? Taking into consideration the latest events and statements if the President of Ukraine, the fact that...

It's possible to calculate a number of interdependence indicators on the basis of voting results, published on the site of the Central Election Commission. We used the Pearson correlation coefficient and correlation diagrams to show citizen moods in voting process. As a result, we received illustrative and simple correlation scheme. We can see on this scheme parties which were stealing each other's electorate and created excessive competition. Having included to voter turnout into the...

We have already mentioned about non-conformity of voting results in prisons and colonies to nationwide and regional results in the articles covering 2014 presidential elections. Polling stations in penitentiary institutions are the best example of non-free voting. In this article, we'll analyze the results of Parliamentary elections in correlation between prison and freedom. We used the data from the website of the CEC, available on 29 October in the evening. Incomplete sampling is not go...

To continue the topic of information portraits of MP candidates in Early Parliamentary elections scheduled for 26 October 2014, OPORA made a joint portrait of party list candidates.  

This article is based on information about majoritarian candidates, published on website of the CEC. As long as average citizens cannot analyze all the data, we created a joint information portrait of parliamentary candidates.

According to the calculation by the second level, the absolute maximum of increase was noticed in Dnipropetrovsk oblast: 45,925 persons (+1.76%). The maximum decrease was noticed in Kyiv: 3,251 (-0.15%). Relative indicators are the following: the maximum increase - 2.49% (Chernihiv oblast); the maximum decrease - minus 0.15% (Kyiv city).