How does the NH State House Work?

[Free Bird]

Does each town have multiple districts or something, like Rockingham 6 and Rockingham 8? Does each section have a cluster of Reps? How do you know which section of your district you Represent? It's really confusing.

[Joe Republic]

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Does each town have multiple districts or something, like Rockingham 6 and Rockingham 8? Does each section have a cluster of Reps? How do you know which section of your district you Represent? It's really confusing.

Seeing Joe's post, I think it is like the former though I don't know the lexicon in NH because it is unique...

[publicunofficial]

It doesn't

[Vega]

I wish more states held onto MMDs. It's more fair.

[Ebowed]

It changes parties a lot.  And, due to its size, there are a decent number of weirdos, too.

[Hatman 🍁]

I wish more states held onto MMDs. It's more fair.

No. Plurality at large voting is one of the few electoral systems that are actually worse than first past the post. If a party  has 55% support in an 11 seat district, then they're likely to win all 11 seats there. How is that fair?

[Antonio the Sixth]

I wish more states held onto MMDs. It's more fair.

No. Plurality at large voting is one of the few electoral systems that are actually worse than first past the post. If a party  has 55% support in an 11 seat district, then they're likely to win all 11 seats there. How is that fair?

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Quite a lot of urban local governments used to have single transferable vote MMD's but Democratic machines tended to freak when commies, minorities and repugs started to gain representation. They were quickly stamped out after WW2.

[Brittain33]

I read in the Globe this weekend that Boston had a ward-based city council until an African-American candidate won the seat representing Roxbury in the 1950s, so they refused to seat him and immediately changed to at-large seats to keep the council all white. That didn't change until the 1970s.