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2 | Dubious Democracy 2020 | |||||||
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4 | Dubious Democracy provides a comprehensive quantitative assessment of the level of competition, rate of voter participation, and accuracy of representation in elections to the U.S. House of Representatives in all 50 states. | |||||||
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7 | Notes and Definitions | |||||||
8 | 1 | Voter Voice Score is obtained by taking the state’s average ranking in key categories: - Average margin of victory (measuring competitiveness) - Percentage of landslide victories (measuring competitiveness) - Partisan skew (measuring how well the intent of voters was reflected by the results) - Voter consensus (a measure of efficacious participation) - Voter turnout (a measure of participation) | ||||||
9 | 3 | Margin of Victory: Measures the average difference between the winner’s percentage of the vote and the second-place candidate’s percentage of the vote. | ||||||
10 | 4 | Landslide Victories: Measures the percentage of races won by a margin of victory of 20% or greater. Uncontested races are considered landslides for this purpose. | ||||||
11 | 5 | Voter consensus: Measures the percentage of voting age population who voted for the winning candidate in US House elections. The value is determined by dividing the percentage of votes cast for winning candidates with the total voting age population | ||||||
12 | 6 | Partisan skew: Measures the average by which one party wins a greater percentage of seats than votes and the other party wins a smaller percentage of seats than votes. The skew is calculated by adding the percentage skew for each party and then dividing by two. For example, if Democratic candidates won 10% more House seats than their share of votes and Republicans won 6% fewer House seats than their share of votes, the partisan skew would be 8%. | ||||||
13 | 7 | Voter Turnout: Measures the percentage of the voting age population who voted in a state’s US House elections (as opposed to statewide and presidential elections). We use population estimates by Professor Michael McDonald from electproject.org | ||||||
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16 | Sources: | 2020 National House Vote Tracker from The Cook Political Report | ||||||
17 | United States Election Project from Michael McDonald | |||||||
18 | Winner Demographic Information from Daily Kos | |||||||
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20 | Past editions of Dubious Demcracy are available at: http://www.fairvote.org/dubious_democracy | |||||||
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22 | Please bring any errors to the attention of: hello@fairvote.org | |||||||
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