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% |