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Between Order and Disorder: A ‘Weak Law’ on Recent Electoral Behavior among Urban Voters? 1,2 3 1,4 Christian Borghesi *, Jean Chiche , Jean-Pierre Nadal ´ 1 Centre d’Analyse et de Mathematique Sociales (CAMS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France, ´ ´ ´ 2 Laboratoire de Physique Theorique et Modelisation (LPTM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et Universite de Cergy-Pontoise, Cergy-Pontoise, France, 3 Centre de Recherches Politiques de Sciences Po (CEVIPOF), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et Sciences Po, Paris, France, 4 Laboratoire de Physique ´ ´ ´ ´ Statistique (LPS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/Ecole Normale Superieure/Universite Pierre et Marie Curie/Universite Paris Diderot, Paris, France Abstract A new viewpoint on electoral involvement is proposed from the study of the statistics of the proportions of abstentionists, blank and null, and votes according to list of choices, in a large number of national elections in different countries. Considering 11 countries without compulsory voting (Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Romania, Spain, and Switzerland), a stylized fact emerges for the most populated cities when one computes the entropy associated to the three ratios, which we call the entropy of civic involvement of the electorate. The distrib