Seth Barrett Tillman: National Conference Of State Legislatures: Number Of State Legislative Seats Held By Each Party
Posted by Jonathan on November 16th, 2016 (All posts by Jonathan)
The shift to the Rs represents just over 1/2 of 1% of all state legislative seats (i.e., (44) / (7,297)). Interesting, 12 House state legislative chambers and 2 Senate state legislative chambers are controlled by 5 or fewer seats. Small changes in seat distribution can have highly significant effects.
November 17th, 2016 at 5:36 am
A bit O/T, but here’s an explanation for opinion poll bias (in the UK).
http://order-order.com/2016/11/17/shy-tories-actually-just-busy-labour-voters-always-home/
November 19th, 2016 at 12:39 pm
Dearie, something like that was said of Labour’s 1945 win. The Tory politicians were still in the military overseas and the Labour pols were at home.