Content Authored by Devin McCarthy
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Democrats' Edge in House Popular Vote Would Have Increased if All Seats Had Been Contested
- Posted: January 9, 2013
- Author(s): Devin McCarthy
- Categories: Congressional Elections, Home
A new FairVote analysis suggests that if both parties had run candidates in all 435 districts in the U.S. House elections in 2012, the Democratic margin of victory in the popular vote would have been even greater than its edge in the raw vote - a further indication of the partisan skew existing in current congressional elections.
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Putin Orders Return to Parallel Electoral System for Russian Duma
- Posted: January 7, 2013
- Author(s): Sara Helmi, Devin McCarthy
- Categories: Europe, International Elections, Home, Elections Worldwide
Do not be fooled by Vladimir Putin's claims that the reintroduction of single-member, winner-take-all seats to the Russian Duma will be a step towards a fairer and freer democracy in Russia. It is instead a step towards the continuation of one-party rule.
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Everything You Need to Know About Israeli Elections Before Election Day
- Posted: January 4, 2013
- Author(s): Devin McCarthy
- Categories: Middle East and Africa, Home, International Elections, Elections Worldwide
Understanding the Israeli electoral process is not easy when coming from an American perspective, because Israeli elections are nothing like American elections. The election that will be held in Israel on January 22 will be different from the 2012 elections in the U.S. in almost every conceivable sense.
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It's Not Just Gerrymandering: Fixing House Elections Demands End of Winner-Take-All Rules
- Posted: December 16, 2012
- Author(s): Devin McCarthy, Rob Richie
- Categories: Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, Congressional Elections, Home, Redistricting
This year's elections put a spotlight on the troubled nature of how we elect the House of Representatives, the alleged "people's house." But some of our smartest election experts don't seem to understand the root of the problems with House elections.
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"Incumbency Bumps": Measuring National Partisan Swings By Evaluating the Incumbent Advantage in U.S. House Races, 1996-2012
- Posted: December 4, 2012
- Author(s): Devin McCarthy, Rob Richie
- Categories: Congressional Elections, Home
FairVote introduces its updated "incumbency bump" data for the 2012 election. Incumbents once again received a substantial advantage over challengers this year, although that bump was the lowest it has been since FairVote first began analyzing incumbency in 1996.
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Ukrainian Elections Are Another Example of Partisan Bias Caused by Winner-Take-All
- Posted: November 26, 2012
- Author(s): Sara Helmi, Devin McCarthy
- Categories: Europe, Home, International Elections, Elections Worldwide
Think the U.S. House elections had a structural bias in favor of one party? The partisan bias in Ukraine's parliamentary elections, held just a week before the American elections, was even worse.
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The 2012 Elections and the Vanishing Congressional Moderate
- Posted: November 15, 2012
- Author(s): Devin McCarthy
- Categories: Congressional Elections, Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, Home
Many observers of the American political process have bemoaned our increasingly partisan Congress, with representatives from both parties clinging to the party line and refusing to compromise with the other side. If you were hoping that the 2012 elections would help this problem, here's some bad news: things are only getting worse. The congressional moderate is on the verge of extinction.
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FairVote's Unique Methodology Shows That 52% of Voters Wanted a Democratic House
- Posted: November 13, 2012
- Author(s): Devin McCarthy, Rob Richie
- Categories: Congressional Elections, Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, Home
Using its unique methods for analyzing the underlying preferences of voters, FairVote has determined that the Republican Party has a significant structural advantage in U.S. House elections. That advantage was the most important reason why the GOP kept a comfortable majority of 54% of seats in the House despite Democratic candidates having an overall 4% advantage in voter preference over their Republican opponents.
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France May Introduce a Little Bit of Proportional Representation to its Legislative Elections
- Posted: November 12, 2012
- Author(s): Sara Helmi, Devin McCarthy
- Categories: Europe, Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, International Elections, Home
Proportional representation may be coming to the French legislature--or at least 10% of it.
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2012 Election Night Congressional Scorecard
- Posted: November 6, 2012
- Author(s): Devin McCarthy, Rob Richie
- Categories: Congressional Elections, Home
Predict the winner of the national congressional vote on election night using district partisanship data from early returns!