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In the 2011 redistricting, Republicans divided Travis County between five districts, only one of which, extending to San Antonio, elects a Democrat. 2018 election results for the U.S. House of Representatives, showing Democratic Party vote share and seat share. While the overall vote share and seat share were the same at 54%, there were several ...
When Evers was elected in 2018, Democrats won the popular vote in the state assembly by 53 to 45 per cent, but the heavily skewed map still gave the Republicans a majority of 63 to 36 seats.
The Kentucky Supreme Court could soon decide whether a map drawn by the state’s Republican-controlled legislature amounts to what Democrats assert is an “extreme partisan” gerrymander in ...
Oct. 15—OHIO — As Ohioans head to the polls this election season, a topic of discussion is Issue 1, a proposed constitutional amendment to overhaul the state's redistricting process. Both ...
As gerrymandering relies on the wasted-vote effect, the use of a different voting system with fewer wasted votes can help reduce gerrymandering. In particular, the use of multi-member districts alongside voting systems establishing proportional representation such as party-list proportional representation or single transferable voting can ...
In Ohio, Utah, and New Mexico, the dominant party — in the first two cases Republicans, and in the latter, Democrats — simply ignored their commission’s work and drew a gerrymander.
Benisek v. Lamone, 585 U.S. ____ (2018), and Lamone v.Benisek, 588 U.S. ____ (2019), were a pair of decisions by the Supreme Court of the United States in a case dealing with the topic of partisan gerrymandering arising from the 2011 Democratic party-favored redistricting of Maryland.
Instead of allowing either Democrats or Republicans to control the redistricting process, a 15-member citizen commission would be created with five independents and five members each from the top ...