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Nowadays, political parties have widely adopted social media for their party promotions and election campaigns. During the election, Twitter and other social media platforms are used for political coverage to promote the party and its candidates. This research discusses and estimates the stability of many volumetric social media approaches to forecast election results from social media activities. Numerous machine learning approaches are applied to opinions shared on social media for predicting election results. This paper presents a machine learning model based on sentiment analysis to predict Pakistan's general election results. In a general election, voters vote for their favorite party or candidate based on their personal interests. Social media has been extensively used for the campaign in Pakistan general election 2018. Using a machine learning technique, we provide a five-step process to analyze the overall election results, whether fair or unfair. The work is concluded with detailed experimental results along with discussion on the outcomes of sentiment analysis for real-world forecasting and approval of general elections in Pakistan.
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Ali, H., Farman, H., Yar, H. et al. Deep learning-based election results prediction using Twitter activity. Soft Comput 26, 7535–7543 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-021-06569-5
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