Last summer, I calculated what the U.S. House of Representatives would look like if the U.S. used statewide proportional representation by party registration to elect congresscritters:
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- Ain’t Representin’ II: What Congress Would Look Like Under Proportional Representation
TLDR: it was very different from how it currently looks.
That started with looking at the Texas and California delegations, since they were what was in the news for massive gerrymanders at the time.
Now, with Florida contemplating an even more extreme gerrymander than it already operates under, let’s take a look at them.
Florida, at the time, had voter registrations of:
- 33% Democrat
- 37% Republican
- 30% Other
But it had 8 Democratic representatives and 20 Republican representatives, which is 29% Democrat, to 71% Republican.
To actually represent their voters accurately, that Congressional delegations should have been:
- 9 Democrats
- 10 Republicans
- 8 from other parties
(Rounding percentages between three possibilities means a seat got skipped in that spreadsheet; based on the fractional percentages, it would probably be another “other” representative.)
This is a significant difference.
The U.S. would have a very different government under proportional representation.
And one that, by definition, would represent the opinions and desires of the voting public much better than the one we have now.
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