[EL] House votes vs seats in AZ & CA

[Adam Bonin]

The Arizona stats are deceptive - one of the nine districts had no
Republican candidate but a Libertarian receiving 18% instead; one had no
Democrat but three I/L/G candidates splitting 39% of the vote; libertarians
did well (4-6%) in other races.  There were three close races which all went
D, four safe-R, two safe-D.

 

http://www.azcentral.com/news/politics/results/election.php

 

 

From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu
[mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of Douglas
Johnson
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 2:53 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

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


 <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44633> "Guest Column: Arizona's nonpartisan
redistricting creates fairer election outcomes" 


Posted on  <http://electionlawblog.org/?p=44633> November 21, 2012 8:49 am
by Rick Hasen <http://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>  

Elliott Weiss has written this oped
<http://azstarnet.com/news/opinion/guest-column-arizona-s-nonpartisan-redist
ricting-creates-fairer-election-outcomes/article_60ff9cc0-d4cf-55e1-99f0-b9b
aa151ebed.html>  for the Arizona Daily Star.

 
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