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On the fluctuations of election returns

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Lajos Takács
Lajos Takács*
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Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland
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Suppose that in a ballot candidate A scores a votes and candidate B scores b votes and all the possible voting records are equally probable. Denote by αr and βr the number of votes registered for A and B respectively among the first r votes counted. For j= 0, 1,···, a + b define Pj(a, b) as the probability that the inequality αr > aβr/b holds for exactly j subscripts r = 1, 2, .., a + b.

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Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , April 1970 , pp. 114 - 123
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Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 

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