The National Conference of State Legislatures has this chart showing the partisan lineup of each state legislative body. It is quite clear, although not completely up-to-date. It appears to have been updated last on November 9. Some of the California totals shown in the chart are no longer accurate. Thanks to Jim Riley for the link.
99 State minority rule gerrymanders — results.
Giant increase in HI Senate — 0 to 1 Elephant.
Chart is a bit useless — States are de facto DEAD
— due to SCOTUS perversions of 1-8 — general welfare cl and interstate commerce cl
— now pass thru things for Fed Aid statism — welfare, etc.
PR and AppV
I find it interesting that of states with divided control, twice as many have Republican legislatures with a Democrat governor than are the other way around. But what is really interesting is that of those, almost all were won by President Trump in ’16, Virginia being the exception. And you can add West Virginia (another Trump state) to this list since Jim Justice was elected as a Democrat governor then before switching sides.
The exact same relationship is found with the four divided states with Democrat legislatures and Republican governors. All went for Hillary, and all are in the northeast.
Obviously nothing to do with gerrymandering since both governor and presidential elections are statewide winner take all. This is all about state (local) versus national voter mentality.
NCSL election folks try to do a chart update in Jan after final-final stats are done.
ALL the State legislatures are ANTI-Democracy minority rule oligarchies — since 1776.
Thus the demagogue State Guvs — de facto monarchs — with veto power over the gerrymander oligarchs.
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PR and AppV
TOTAL SOP.
No to AppV because that will likely result in one-party rule in single-winner districts without the split-vote problem that currently exists.
The split-vote problem allows random wins by 2nd biggest civic group but AppV may not redeem the same results in single-winner districts that regular plurality votes bring.
JO–
Appv is ONLY for exec/judic offices – pending Condorcet.
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