Seats to Votes Distortion
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. It is determined by adding the percentage distortion for each party and
dividing by two. For example, if Democrats won 10% more seats than
votes and Republicans 6% fewer seats than votes, the distortion would
be 8%.| Ranking | State | Seats-to-votes |
| 1 | New Jersey | 0.7% |
| 2 | Missouri | 1.1% |
| 3 | Wisconsin | 1.3% |
| 4 | Illinois | 1.4% |
| 5 | South Carolina | 1.7% |
| 6 | North Carolina | 2.8% |
| 7 | Minnesota | 3.0% |
| 8 | Texas | 6.3% |
| 9 | California | 7.1% |
| 10 | Colorado | 7.2% |
| 11 | Washington | 7.3% |
| 12 | Georgia | 7.6% |
| 13 | Utah | 7.9% |
| 14 | Tennessee | 8.5% |
| 15 | West Virginia | 8.6% |
| 16 | New York | 9.1% |
| 17 | Louisiana | 9.4% |
| 18 | Michigan | 9.5% |
| 19 | Virginia | 9.5% |
| 20 | Kansas | 10.4% |
| 21 | Arizona | 10.8% |
| 22 | Alabama | 11.1% |
| 23 | Nevada | 11.2% |
| 24 | Florida | 12.2% |
| 25 | Pennsylvania | 12.3% |
| 26 | Oklahoma | 12.3% |
| 27 | Mississippi | 14.5% |
| 28 | Ohio | 15.4% |
| 29 | Connecticut | 15.5% |
| 30 | Maryland | 15.8% |
| 31 | New Mexico | 18.5% |
| 32 | Massachusetts | 18.5% |
| 33 | Indiana | 19.9% |
| 34 | Kentucky | 20.6% |
| 35 | Arkansas | 20.7% |
| 36 | Iowa | 23.2% |
| 37 | Oregon | 24.6% |
| 38 | Alaska | 25.6% |
| 39 | Vermont | 28.2% |
| 40 | Rhode Island | 29.3% |
| 41 | Idaho | 29.9% |
| 42 | Delaware | 30.3% |
| 43 | Nebraska | 31.4% |
| 44 | Montana | 34.2% |
| 45 | Hawaii | 36.4% |
| 46 | New Hampshire | 38.3% |
| 47 | North Dakota | 40.4% |
| 48 | Maine | 40.5% |
| 49 | Wyoming | 43.3% |
| 50 | South Dakota | 46.3% |
| US | USA | 2.3% |