Abstract: This project poses questions about the attainability of representative democracy while contemplating the fact that voters lack the capacity to make the decisions that maximise their own utilities. The potential for voters to vote correctly depends on their political sophistication, on the complexity of the issue being addressed at an electoral campaign and the complexity of the candidates’ proposals. The outcomes of interest are the convergence of political parties, the proportion of incorrect voters, the degree of competition between parties and the general welfare of the voters. A model with two candidates and stochastic voters who do not have perfect information is analysed with spatial and agent-based modelling.