Figure 1

Violin plots comparing the determined allegiance (\(\mathcal{A}\)) of unique users to the ruling parties (red) and the opposition (blue), where \(\mathcal{A}\approx 0\) means disapproval and implies a negative allegiance, while \(\mathcal{A}\approx 1\) means approval and implies a positive allegiance. The data is from May 2021, the month preceding Election Day. For all the distributions, the bulk of the data is around \(\mathcal{A}\approx 0\) and there are local maxima around \(\mathcal{A}\approx 1\). The number of tweets used to construct each plot decreases from top to bottom. For the ruling parties(opposition), there is a total of 2.9(2.3) million messages, which encompass 304(201) thousand unique users, decreasing to 11(13) thousand messages with geodata posted by 2.4(2.7) thousand unique users. We denote the quartiles in each distribution with white dashed lines