Territorial and statistics notes in software R: understand the electoral districts in México

Abstract

Mexico is divided into 32 states that make up the Federation. In the 32 states are located in the 300 districts that are part of the Legislative power. In the years 1996 and 2005 is reconfigured its way impacted on its structure. Want to show that redistricting is not a matter of form without content, since a modification in the shape of the space is a modification in the essence, that is to say, it is a technical action that impacts on the structure of the geography of social action and the landscape of resources, therefore, is a non-productive action that impacts valuing or devalue the space of the productive actions. In case of disregarding the above-mentioned, you run the risk of adulterating the space, reducing their technical functions to survive. The analysis was performed through the modeling, mapping and geostatistics. We drew up a comparative distritación in both years, we generated analysis about concentration and dispersion spatial, through the union between cartography and the Census of Population and Housing 2010; model a correlation matrix with the variables of residence; and, generated linear models that allowed us to establish projections among the aspects that determine, at national level, the voting for each of the three main political parties: Partido Acción Nacional (PAN), Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) and Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD).