The Effects of Political Martyrdom on Election Results: The Assassination of Abe

In developed nations assassinations are rare and thus the impact of such acts on electoral political landscape is understudied. this paper, we focus Twitter data to examine effects Japan's former Primer Minister Abe's assassination Japanese House Councillors elections in 2022. We utilize sentiment analysis emotion detection together with topic modeling over 2 million tweets compare them against during previous election cycles. Our findings indicate that sentiments were negatively impacted by event short term social media attention span has shortened. also discuss how "necropolitics" affected outcome favor deceased's party meaning there seems have been an effect death though warrant further investigation for conclusive results.