investigate whether there was a general bandwagon or underdog effect as the election progressed. We find that any bandwagon effect … find that a typical election featured an initial bandwagon effect which peaked about halfway through the election and then … was in favor of the party which eventually won the election, not the party gaining seats compared with last time. We also …

and past election results. We isolate the impact of candidates' rankings using an RDD in French local and parliamentary …). Overall, our evidence suggests that both coordination and bandwagon effects are important drivers of the behavior of … candidates and voters and of election outcomes …