U.S. Election Data, 1920-1996

DEMOREP1 at aol.com DEMOREP1 at aol.com
Sun Aug 2 11:26:16 PDT 1998


U.S. Presidential and Congressional gerrymander election data for 1920-1996 is
at

http://clerkweb.house.gov/histrecs/history/elections/elections.htm

The gerrymander data for the U.S. House of Representatives was severe before
1964-1966 when the U.S. Supreme Court required one person- one vote in
districts within a State (thus raising minority rule percentages in most
states to around 30 percent- just over half the votes in just over half the
districts).    Since there was a blatantly unconstitutional failure to
reapportion seats after the 1920 Census, the 1922-1930 data is doubly severe
(which helped set the stage for the 1929-1941 Great Depression).

Election method folk may wish to estimate the effects of using p.r. for
elections.



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