Seats-to-Votes Distortion Rankings
Seats-to-Votes Distortion: The 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. The distortion is calculated by adding the percentage distortion for each party and then dividing by two. For example, if Democrats won 10% more seats than votes and Republicans won 6% fewer seats than votes, the distortion would be 8%.

Rank State Distortion
1 North Carolina 0.9%
2 Georgia 1.1%
3 Pennsylvania 1.7%
4 Colorado 2.7%
5 New Jersey 3.3%
6 Mississippi 3.7%
7 Tennessee 3.8%
8 Missouri 4.2%
9 Arizona 4.8%
10 Illinois 5.2%
11 Kansas 5.3%
12 California 5.7%
13 Washington 5.8%
14 Indiana 6.1%
15 Texas 6.2%
16 Florida 6.9%
17 Minnesota 7.3%
18 West Virginia 8.6%
19 Maryland 8.8%
20 Louisiana 10.1%
21 South Carolina 10.3%
22 Iowa 11.4%
23 New York 11.7%
24 Utah 12.2%
25 Massachusetts 12.7%
26 Wisconsin 13.4%
27 Ohio 13.8%
28 Michigan 14.1%
29 Arkansas 15.3%
30 Alabama 15.9%
31 Kentucky 16.3%
32 Virginia 16.7%
33 Nevada 19.1%
34 Connecticut 19.6%
35 Rhode Island 20.1%
36 Oklahoma 22.0%
37 Oregon 22.3%
38 New Mexico 22.5%
39 Vermont 23.4%
40 South Dakota 30.1%
41 Maine 32.5%
42 North Dakota 34.3%
43 Hawaii 35.0%
44 Montana 40.1%
45 Delaware 40.8%
46 Alaska 41.7%
47 Idaho 42.1%
48 Nebraska 43.9%
49 New Hampshire 47.5%
50 Wyoming 49.7%
US United States 2.3%