Flipping House votes with apportionment data

Oliver K. Ernst, Ph.D.
Practical coding
Published in
6 min readJan 13, 2024

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How changing the method for seat apportionment in the House would reshape voting.

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Background

Representation is a contentious subject. The U.S. Congress tries to balance the representation of each state across it’s two chambers: the Senate, where each state gets equal representation, and the House of Representatives, where each state gets a voice…

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