Divide and Conquer: Using Geographic Manipulation to Win District-Based Elections

Y. Lewenberg, O. Lev, J. Rosenschein

Election type Ordinal
Culture Mallows Mixture
Candidates {6}
Voters {1000000}
Instances 1000
According to the paper: “Each setting was run several thousand times”
Parameters Complicated mixture simulating division into urban and rural areas, with components whose dispersion parameter depends on the location in a 2D space (this is geographical space, not ideology-one, like in Euclidean models). Central preferences of the mixtures were (apparently) hand-designed.
Motivation parliamentary elections