The leading number of what?

I understand Benford's law, I'm asking what the x axis is actually denoting. Those bars are counting how many times "the number" has a 1, 2, 3, etc as its first digit.

But what is "the number"? Vote counts per polling station? Vote counts per riding? Vote counts over time?

You have to know this because certain kinds of number sets can have artificial constraints that can give an unnatural distribution of first digits.

If we don't even know what X is supposed to be, we can hardly draw any conclusions from these graphs.

The leading number of what?

I understand Benford's law, I'm asking what the x axis is actually denoting. Those bars are counting how many times "the number" has a 1, 2, 3, etc as its first digit.

What is "the number"? Vote counts per polling station? Vote counts per riding? Vote counts over time?

You have to know this because certain kinds of number sets can have artificial constraints that can give an unnatural distribution of first digits.

If we don't even know what X is supposed to be, we can hardly draw any conclusions from these graphs.