Analysis of Political Party Accounts' Followers in Japan Electoin 2017

Abstract

In the election campaign, modern political parties utilize social media to advertise their policies and candidates and to communicate electorates. In the latest election, the 48th general election for the Lower House in Japan 2017, social media, especially Twitter, was actively used. In this paper, we perform a detailed analysis of political tweets of users who retweeted offical political party accounts during the election. Our aim is to obtain how political party followers differs from each other. The results indicate that the largest two political party accounts' followers are quiet similar from view point of political tweets.