The Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives has just published “Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 4, 2014”. See it here
The charts in the back show the national vote for US House by party, and .for US Senate by party. The Clerk has been publishing a similar book for each congressional election starting in 1920.
The 2014 book does a better job than the books published for earlier elections. In the recent past, the charts in the back discriminated against minor parties and for major parties. Past copies of the book listed all Democratic nominees in the “Democratic” column in the charts, whether the Democratic Party had a different name on the ballot in a particular state or not. In Minnesota, Democrats are on the general election ballot as “Democratic-Farmer-Labor.” In North Dakota, Democrats are on as “Democratic-Non-Partisan.” But the chart showing the national Democratic vote always included Democratic nominees from those two states.
However, past books did not put Green Party nominees in the “Green” column in the charts, if the Green Party had a different name in a particular state or jurisdiction. Past books put the Green nominees in Maine, West Virginia, Massachusetts, Oregon, and the District of Columbia, in the “other parties” column instead of the “Green” column, because the name of the Green Party in those five places is different than just “Green.”
On October 6, 2014, the Green Party informed the Clerk of the U.S. House that its name in D.C. is “Statehood Green”; in Maine, “Green Independent”; in Massachusetts, “Green-Rainbow”; in Oregon, “Pacific Green”; and in West Virginia, “Mountain Party.” Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi helped see that the Clerk was cognizant of this letter, and the Clerk then prepared the 2014 book listing all the Green Party votes in the Green Party column. Thanks to Thomas Jones for the link to the book.
I like the last chart they included in that booklet. With it one can quite clearly see what I like to call the “Third Party K-T Boundary” in the 1950’s. Before it, third party members of Congress are quite common. After it, they’re practically non-existent.
All voters ought to have a look at this, so they can see the damage that has been done to our election system by the Red Scare, harsher ballot access laws, fear tactics like the “spoiler theory” and “wasted vote” theory, and changes in campaign finance laws. It might change their outlook on third party and independent candidates, and weaken the hold the aforementioned fear tactics have on them.
Complain lots more.
1. The stats should be in House Doc. 1 of each new Congress.
2. The whole thing is full of ANTI-Democracy minority rule stats — for the world to see and worry lots about —
UNEQUAL votes for each gerrymander area winner.
UNEQUAL total votes in each gerrymander area — political concentration camp.
3. Only about 3 percent of the TOTAL voters have any major power to change the hacks in the marginal gerrymander areas.
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P.R. and nonpartisan App.V.
http://history.house.gov/Institution/Election-Statistics/Election-Statistics/
1920-2012 stats.
Note the 1932 H. Reps — lots of AT LARGE Donkey Reps due to the blatant violation in 1921-1922 to reapportion Reps among the States (after lots of folks moving around in 1910-1920 due to cars and WW I).
Result – the statist stuff in 1933-1941 — Great Depression econ stuff – insane USA regime debts, etc.