[EL] House votes vs seats in AZ & CA

[Gaddie, Ronald K.]

So, if I read this right, in commission-based, 'good government' redistricting states, there was an eleven-point swing bonus for the Democrats, and in one instance a minority of the votes resulted in a majority of the seats?

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From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu [law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] on behalf of Douglas Johnson [djohnson at ndcresearch.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 1:52 PM
To: 'Rick Hasen'; law-election at uci.edu
Subject: Re: [EL] House votes vs seats in AZ & CA

This article notes that in AZ, according to the latest votes counts, Democratic House candidates received 44.6 % of votes and won 55.56% of seats.

In California – the other state where an independently-selected and independently-acting commission controls redistricting – according to the vote counts on Nov. 20 Democratic House candidates won 60.2% of votes and 71.7% of seats.

All House races in California have been called by AP, though 1.2 million ballots remain to be counted.

Both states saw a number of close elections. At one point, seven of the nine not-yet-decided elections in the country (as counted by The Hill newspaper) were in AZ and CA.

-        Doug

Douglas Johnson, Fellow
Rose Institute of State and Local Government
at Claremont McKenna College
douglas.johnson at cmc.edu<mailto:douglas.johnson at cmc.edu>
310-200-2058



From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu [mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of Rick Hasen
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 9:13 AM
To: law-election at UCI.edu
Subject: [EL] ELB News and Commentary 11/21/12
“Guest Column: Arizona’s nonpartisan redistricting creates fairer election outcomes”<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44633>
Posted on November 21, 2012 8:49 am<http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44633> by Rick Hasen<http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>

Elliott Weiss has written this oped<http://azstarnet.com/news/opinion/guest-column-arizona-s-nonpartisan-redistricting-creates-fairer-election-outcomes/article_60ff9cc0-d4cf-55e1-99f0-b9baa151ebed.html> for the Arizona Daily Star.


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