Election opinion dynamics through the 2D Ising model

The Ising model and its variations have seen regular applications in describing the behavior of systems with many interacting bodies of varying complexity. We explored a zero-field Ising model that includes next nearest neighbor interactions with strength J₂ to investigate the opinion dynamics of a voting population in a two-party election. We constructed lattices filled with voters preferring to vote for either x candidate or x’ candidate in random configurations.