Benford's law applies when the underlying distribution is approximately exponential. Because candidates with an exponentially small chance to win are not likel

Benford's law applies when the underlying distribution is approximately exponential. Because candidates with an exponentially small chance to win are not likely to run, it wouldn't make much sense for elections to have an exponential distribution. Much more plausible distributions are (truncated) normal or uniform, neither of which satisfies Benford's law.