Seats-to-Votes Distortion: measures the extent to which one party wins a greater percentage of seats than votes and the other party wins a smaller percentage of seats than votes. You add the percentage distortion for each party and divide by two. For example, if Democrats won 10% more seats than votes and Republicans 6% fewer seats than votes, the distortion would be 8.0%.
| Rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 | State | Score 0.6% 1.3% 1.4% 1.4% 1.5% 1.7% 3.7% 3.8% 4.0% 4.0% 5.0% 5.4% 5.5% 6.5% 7.6% 7.6% 7.8% 8.4% 8.8% 9.6% 10.1% 10.5% 12.2% 13.0% 13.5% | Rank 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 | State Florida Alabama Nebraska Colorado Arizona Massachusetts Arkansas Kentucky Maryland Alaska Oklahoma Oregon Iowa New Mexico Delaware Rhode Island Hawaii Vermont* Montana Idaho Wyoming New Hampshire Maine South Dakota North Dakota | Score 13.7% 14.0% 14.1% 15.6% 16.2% 16.4% 17.1% 17.7% 17.8% 21.4% 22.3% 24.0% 25.4% 26.6% 27.3% 30.6% 33.9% 34.0% 34.0% 35.4% 37.8% 41.1% 41.5% 46.1% 47.6% |
*In Vermont, the race is considered a two-party race between a Republican and an Independent. There was no Democrat in the race, but there were a few third party candidates.