We are facing an electoral panorama very uncertain and, in turn, numerous since there are several elections around the corner. To help voters get an idea about what the Spanish population thinks, surveys are carried out and graphic representations are formed from that. In order words, statistics are essential in the electoral process . For instance, this is the last survey that collect the voting intenention and what political party will be voted by Spanish citizens. Statistics has been always present in the election period and to illustrate this reality, I would like to expose some significant data collected from the election results from the last decades. The average participation has been 73.79% since 1977, while the year 1982 was the year with the highest participation ( 79.97% ) and on the contrary it was the year 2016 when fewer Spanish people went to vote at the the polls on election day ( 66.48% ) Moreover, the PSOE was the political party with more seats in a el
As it was explained in the previous entry, "CURIOUS NBA STATISTICS", statistics is "a branch of mathematics dealing with the collection, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of masses of numerical data". The application of statistical procedures dates back to the year 3050 before Christ , when a register of population and wealth was carried out in Egypt in order to prepare the construction of the pyramids. Later, Egyptians, Greeks and Romans also carried out some censuses with tributary, social and military purposes, and much later, in the sixteenth century, statistical inventories were published in Germany, Italy and France. Although initially the statistics arises from the elaboration of censuses, its application is currently extended to numerous fields, such as agriculture, biology, politics, psychology, education and so on. However, there are many people who for lack of critical sense of a statistical nature are very easily impressed by surpris