Political Science 2211E Chapter 3: Week3 Notes
4 Apr 2020
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This is the best explanation of gerrymandering you will ever see. Gerrymandering drawing political boundaries to give your party a numeric advantage over an opposing party. You need to divide up the this state into 5 districts, each district will send a representative to the house to represent the people: ideally, you want the representation to be proportional: 60% of residents are blue and. Your can see that in grid 2 above compact but unfair : with a comfortable blue majority in state, each district elects a blue candidate to the. House (cid:8213) the blues win 5 seats and the reds don"t get a single one. New york: in 2012, the democrats received 66% of the popular house vote. 21/27 house seats, or three more than you"d expect from the popular vote alone. Pennsylvania: in 2012, democrats won 51 percent of the popular house vote. They won fewer than a third of the seats.
