The prediction on the election of representatives

Li, Binyang; Guo, Dan; Chang, Ming Jen; Li, Meng; Bian, Anny

doi:10.1109/spac.2017.8304299

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“…In political prediction, researchers mostly analyzed Twitter for political campaigns and elections predictions. Election prediction using sentiment analysis [27,28], social network analysis [29], topic modeling and sentiment analysis [30], and aggregating online and offline data [31] were studied, but all these studies used election time data. To the best of our knowledge, no research had drawn attention to the supporters' network of political leaders in normal time (long before the election), which motivated us to investigate specifically the supporters' network of political leaders of Pakistan on Twitter in normal time that can lead to the prediction of a political leader's fate in the election.…”

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Predicting Politician’s Supporters’ Network on Twitter Using Social Network Analysis and Semantic Analysis

Khan

Zhang

Shang

et al. 2020

Scientific Programming

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Politics is one of the hottest and most commonly mentioned and viewed topics on social media networks nowadays. Microblogging platforms like Twitter and Weibo are widely used by many politicians who have a huge number of followers and supporters on those platforms. It is essential to study the supporters’ network of political leaders because it can help in decision making when predicting their political futures. This study focuses on the supporters’ network of three famous political leaders of Pakistan, namely, Imran Khan (IK), Maryam Nawaz Sharif (MNS), and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari (BBZ). This is done using social network analysis and semantic analysis. The proposed method (1) detects and removes fake supporter(s), (2) mines communities in the politicians’ social network(s), (3) investigates the supporters’ reply network for conversations between supporters about each leader, and, finally, (4) analyses the retweet network for information diffusion of each political leader. Furthermore, sentiment analysis of the supporters of politicians is done using machine learning techniques, which ultimately predicted and revealed the strongest supporter network(s) among the three political leaders. Analysis of this data reveals that as of October 2017 (1) IK was the most renowned of the three politicians and had the strongest supporter’s community while using Twitter in a very controlled manner, (2) BBZ had the weakest supporters’ network on Twitter, and (3) the supporters of the political leaders in Pakistan are flexible on Twitter, communicating with each other, and that any group of supporters has a low level of isolation.

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confidence: 99%