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Looking to 2016
- Posted: November 11, 2014
- Categories: Home
The 2014 elections are over, and FairVote is already looking to the future. The 2014 elections demonstrated that our congressional elections remain locked up for incumbents while other races continue to allow non-majority rule, making the case for ranked choice voting.
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How Did Women Candidates Fare in 2014 U.S. House Races?
- Posted: November 6, 2014
- Author(s): Claire Daviss
- Categories: Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, Research & Analysis, Home
The results from the 2014 midterm elections are in. How did women candidates for the U.S. House do? Monopoly Politics 2014 projected the outcomes for 132 of the 162 women candidates for the U.S. House. Of those projections, at least 99% were correct. Find out what the midterm results mean for gender parity in elected offices, and why our projections matter. -
Will New Hampshire Lead Nation in Achieving Gender Parity in Elected Office?
- Posted: November 3, 2014
- Author(s): Rebecca Hellmich
- Categories: Reforms, Congressional Elections, Home
The people of New Hampshire take great pride in holding the nation’s first presidential primary every four years. Now, it has a new claim to fame: representation of women in elected office.
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Battlegrounds and Spectators: How Campaign Attention Relates to Voter Turnout
- Posted: October 31, 2014
- Author(s): Claire Daviss, Rob Richie
- Categories: National Popular Vote, Home
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The Cart before the Horse (Race): FairVote Projections Showcase the Lack of Choice in House Elections
- Posted: October 30, 2014
- Author(s): Sarah John
- Categories: Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, Home, Monopoly Politics 2012 Map
With the 2014 midterm elections almost upon us, FairVote takes time out to compare several pundits' forecasts of the US House results with our own Monopoly Politics projections. In doing so, we demonstrate the endemic lack of competition for US House seats. -
FairVote Joins Voting Rights Case in Washington to Promote Fair Representation
- Posted: October 28, 2014
- Author(s): Drew Spencer
- Categories: Home
Last week, FairVote filed an amicus curiae (friend of the Court) brief in Montes v. City of Yakima, a case brought against the city of Yakima, WA under the Voting Rights Act. You can read the brief here.
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Millions of 16- and 17 years olds vote in Brazilian Presidential Election, but no President Elected
- Posted: October 23, 2014
- Author(s): Mike MacNevin
- Categories: Americas, Presidential Elections, Home, Elections Worldwide
Brazilians flocked to the polls on October 5, 2014, to vote for their next president. Yet, after all the votes were counted, no one was elected. This blog entry briefly explores the use of runoff elections in Brazil before discussing the growing worldwide movement to repeat Brazil's enfranchisement of 16 and 17 year olds. -
Winners and Losers among Women House Candidates in 2014 Midterm Elections
- Posted: October 22, 2014
- Author(s): Claire Daviss
- Categories: Congressional Elections, Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, Research & Analysis, Home, All Reports
The 2014 midterm elections are upon us. How will women candidates fair? Using Monopoly Politics 2014 projections, we find that the U.S. House will not move much closer to gender parity in 2014. If this election is indicative of a trend (and it seems to be), Representation 2020 reforms offer a faster path to gender parity. -
FairVote and the 2014 Elections
- Posted: October 10, 2014
- Categories: Home
It's midterm election season! FairVote's Reform 2020 Vision speaks directly to a variety of developments and calls for reform. Here are just a few key examples.
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Strangeness of a One-Party Majority in New Zealand
- Posted: September 26, 2014
- Author(s): Sarah John
- Categories: Fair Voting/Proportional Representation, Asia and Oceania, Home, Elections Worldwide
At the end of an unusual election campaign, New Zealand's Mixed-Member Proportional Representation (MMP) electoral system has delivered Kiwis a strong mandate for the current government, with the first time a single party has won a majority of seats since the nation replaced U.S.-style plurality voting elections with MMP in 1993. The election also demonstrated many of the advantages that such fair representation voting systems have over the single-member plurality systems so often used in American elections.
In every presidential election, there are battleground states and spectator states. How does campaign attention affect voter turnout? We took a closer look at the causal relationship by focusing on states that have changed from battlegrounds to spectators and vice versa.