Seats-to-Votes Distortion Rankings
Seats-to-Votes Distortion: Measure of the average by which one party wins a greater percentage of seats than votes and the other party wins a smaller percentage of seats than votes. The distortion is calculated by adding the percentage distortion for each party and then dividing by two. For example, if Democratic candidates won 10% more House seats than votes and Republicans won 6% fewer House seats than their share of the House votes, the seat-to-vote distortion would be 8%.
Ranking | State | Seasts-to-votes |
1 | West Virginia | 0% |
2 | Virginia | 1% |
3 | Illinois | 2% |
4 | Michigan | 2% |
5 | California | 3% |
6 | Indiana | 3% |
7 | Tennessee | 3% |
8 | Minnesota | 3% |
9 | Ohio | 3% |
10 | Alabama | 4% |
11 | Texas | 4% |
12 | Georgia | 5% |
13 | New Jersey | 5% |
14 | North Carolina | 7% |
15 | Florida | 7% |
16 | Pennsylvania | 7% |
17 | Missouri | 7% |
18 | Washington | 7% |
19 | Iowa | 8% |
20 | Vermont | 8% |
21 | Idaho | 9% |
22 | Wisconsin | 11% |
23 | Utah | 11% |
24 | Kentucky | 11% |
25 | Arizona | 12% |
26 | Oregon | 12% |
27 | Arkansas | 12% |
28 | Nevada | 13% |
29 | Massachusetts | 13% |
30 | Colorado | 16% |
31 | Kansas | 16% |
32 | South Carolina | 16% |
33 | Mississippi | 17% |
34 | Oklahoma | 19% |
35 | Maryland | 19% |
36 | New York | 22% |
37 | Hawaii | 24% |
38 | Louisiana | 28% |
39 | Rhode Island | 29% |
40 | South Dakota | 32% |
41 | Connecticut | 34% |
42 | Montana | 34% |
43 | Nebraska | 34% |
44 | North Dakota | 38% |
45 | Delaware | 38% |
46 | Maine | 39% |
47 | New Mexico | 42% |
48 | New Hampshire | 45% |
49 | Wyoming | 45% |
50 | Alaska | 47% |
US | USA | 3.7% |