Votes vs Seats: Seat Shares, Bonuses and Penalties and the Disproportionality Index
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In this lesson
You compare each party's share of the votes with its share of the 12 seats, express the gap in points and summarise the whole result in one disproportionality index.
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Lessons in this course
- Turnout: Ballots Cast, Valid Votes, District Rankings & the Overall Rate Locked
- Vote Shares & Winners: Who Won, by How Much, and Who Came Second Locked
- Change Since Last Time: Share Changes in Points and the Two-Party Swing Locked
- Marginal Seats: Margins, the Swing Needed to Flip and the Target List Locked
- Uniform Swing: Applying a National Change to Every District and Projecting Seats Locked
- Partial Results: Reporting Bias, Weighted Changes and a Projected Final Share Locked
- Votes vs Seats: Seat Shares, Bonuses and Penalties and the Disproportionality Index Locked
- Capstone: The Results Dashboard – Seat Totals, Gains, the Biggest Swing and a Chart Locked