House of Reps: a collection of articles on the effects of the apportionment algorithm
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2 min readJan 14, 2024
House of Reps is a project that explores apportionment in the U.S. House of Representatives.
It includes documentation for a Python package houseofreps
, as well as articles exploring the impact of the seat assignment algorithm and the electoral college assignments.
- Sorry, Delaware, America’s most underrepresented state — Congratulations for losing the state population lottery, 70 years and counting. Delaware has been the most consistently underrepresented state over the past 60 years. It’s ranking in the state populations has created a population ranking trap that has consistently delivered fewer representatives than the fair value.
- The impact of 25 people on Congressional voting — This is the story of how Minnesota was just 25 people away from losing a representative. If
25
people had moved from Minnesota to the rest of…