Spatial Distribution of Partisan Support and the Seats/Votes Relationship
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6300893 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John K Wildgen, Richard L Engstrom |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 423 |
| Publication date | 1980-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Legislative Studies Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0362-9805 • E-ISSN: 1939-9162 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2307/439554 |
| OpenAlex | W2332666509 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 13 |
How a party's votes are converted into legislative seats in a territorial districtplurality election system is partly a function of the spatial distribution of that party's electoral support. To assess the impact of residential patterns on the seats/votes relationship, fifty elections were simulated in which party strength and dispersion varied. In each simulation the same unbiased districting plan was utilized. After accounting for the impact of party strength on the number of seats won, over half of the remaining variance was explained by geographical distribution. Both the strength of the adjusted r2 and the model employed highlight the importance of keeping vote dilution attributable to residential patterns conceptually distinct from dilution attributable to the placement of district boundaries, a distinction to which empirical measures of gerrymandering should be sensitive
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| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,3 |
| Citation span | 1982 - 2022 (41) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |