Abstract

JACOME, Javier. Spatial Patterns in the Local Elections of 2007 in Bogotá, Colombia. Cuad. Geogr. Rev. Colomb. Geogr. [online]. 2013, vol.22, n.1, pp.141-168. ISSN 0121-215X.

The article examines Bogotá voter preferences in the elections for Mayor and City Council in 2007. After a brief theoretical review of the study of elections and the role geography plays in them, the paper examines the polling stations in two of the city's localities, in order to analyze the distance traveled by the voters on Election Day, the size of the polling booths, their ability to attract voters based on their location, and the relationship between socio-economic status and voting patterns. Finally, Moran's global and local autocorrelation coefficients are used to analyze the main competing options, which showed the existence of non random behavior.

Keywords : autocorrelation; Bogotá; clusters; elections; political geography; Geographic Information Systems.

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