Elections are based on political equality but creates inequality as they produce winners and losers. How should we classify electoral winner and loser? The literature offers three main answers: focusing on 1) votes, 2) seats or 3) cabinet. However, political scientists have no clue whether these classifications correspond to the subjective idea of voters, that is, whether they consider that they won or lost the election. In this presentation, we use a never-seen-before survey question to test which way we can identify who is a loser and who is a winner.

Séminaire présenté par la Chaire de recherche en études électorales