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In this paper, we use the experimental method to study the strong candidate stability of a voting procedure as defined by Dutta et al. (2001). In this sense, a voting rule is said to be strongly candidate stable if the winner of the election remains unchanged after an attempted manipulation by strategic candidacy of a potential candidate. In an election with three candidates and a small electorate, we experimentally evaluate frequencies of the strong candidate stability of parliamentary voting rules and plurality. JEL Classification: D71.