Question

Look at the following 2016 congressional race results for the MA. At the top of the page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016-United-States-House-of-Representatives-elections- in-Massachusetts you can see that Democratic congressional candidates won 100% of the seats with 79.73% of the vote, Republicans won 0% of the seats and 15.34% of the votes. (This does not add up to 100% due to third party voting. To simplify assume there are only two parties, so for example, assume Democrats won73 10.34 percent of the vote.) Graph these MA results on the efficiency-gap graph 79.73 79.73+15.34

Answer 1

Given Democretic rightarrow 100% seats 79.73 % votes Republican's rightarrow 0% seats 15.34 % votes Let A = Democretic B = Republiucans. Given V = 80/100 For B V = 15% rightarrow efficiency graph (boundry) rightarrow EG = difference of vested votes to total. Rightarrow = 400 - 100/500 = 3/5 times 100 rightarrow EG = 60% for 1/4 boundry for Hidden values 1/4 < V < 3/4 and EG = -0 0 < S < 1 if V = 80% S = 20% eg = 0 for 1/4 < v lessthanorequalto 1/2 A rightarrow V/2 Wasted election votes B rightarrow 2 (1 - V) wasted votes for every case scheduled claiming gerrymon dering [4 cases does not satisfy by the EG which obtained earlier] because in each case 1/4 votes are defined so we cannot make EG = 0 therefore EG can not satisfy.