US House with STV/IRV constituencies

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

This assumes preferential voting Australian style, meaning you have to tick every box.
County splits were prohibited.
Any questions?

[jimrtex]

This assumes preferential voting Australian style, meaning you have to tick every box.
County splits were prohibited.
Any questions?

Why so many 2-seat districts?

Why not set a target of four, with a range of 3 to 5, with an except of 1 to 6 for the obvious cases.

Then apportion to the nearest 1/5, and vary the number of representatives from term to term. A district with 3.4 representatives would have 3 representatives for three terms, and 2 representatives for four terms. This way the districts would only have to be changed infrequently if they became too small or too large.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

This assumes preferential voting Australian style, meaning you have to tick every box.
County splits were prohibited.
Any questions?

Why so many 2-seat districts?

Why not set a target of four, with a range of 3 to 5, with an except of 1 to 6 for the obvious cases.

Then apportion to the nearest 1/5, and vary the number of representatives from term to term. A district with 3.4 representatives would have 3 representatives for three terms, and 2 representatives for four terms. This way the districts would only have to be changed infrequently if they became too small or too large.

Proportionality is one reason. 2-seaters can be used to ensure a house delegation that is in alignment with the state politically. Or it can be used for VRA purposes, as witnessed in the deep south.
(MS is one example. I have two seats that roughly reflect the state's lean. Since the state is so polarized, it's close to certain one black and one white would be elected in each of the two CDs)

[jimrtex]

This assumes preferential voting Australian style, meaning you have to tick every box.
County splits were prohibited.
Any questions?

Why so many 2-seat districts?

Why not set a target of four, with a range of 3 to 5, with an except of 1 to 6 for the obvious cases.

Then apportion to the nearest 1/5, and vary the number of representatives from term to term. A district with 3.4 representatives would have 3 representatives for three terms, and 2 representatives for four terms. This way the districts would only have to be changed infrequently if they became too small or too large.

Proportionality is one reason. 2-seaters can be used to ensure a house delegation that is in alignment with the state politically. Or it can be used for VRA purposes, as witnessed in the deep south.
(MS is one example. I have two seats that roughly reflect the state's lean. Since the state is so polarized, it's close to certain one black and one white would be elected in each of the two CDs)

The same would be true with a single 4-member district.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

This assumes preferential voting Australian style, meaning you have to tick every box.
County splits were prohibited.
Any questions?

Why so many 2-seat districts?

Why not set a target of four, with a range of 3 to 5, with an except of 1 to 6 for the obvious cases.

Then apportion to the nearest 1/5, and vary the number of representatives from term to term. A district with 3.4 representatives would have 3 representatives for three terms, and 2 representatives for four terms. This way the districts would only have to be changed infrequently if they became too small or too large.

Proportionality is one reason. 2-seaters can be used to ensure a house delegation that is in alignment with the state politically. Or it can be used for VRA purposes, as witnessed in the deep south.
(MS is one example. I have two seats that roughly reflect the state's lean. Since the state is so polarized, it's close to certain one black and one white would be elected in each of the two CDs)

The same would be true with a single 4-member district.

I don't think it's clear the map would really benefit from consolidating the two-seaters in places like Mississippi though. And combining two-seaters into four only makes the single-member seats stick out more on the map. I wanted some counties to have single-member seats all to themselves in some cases, provided they were close enough to quota to justify that. (though I never set any specific threshold for myself)

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

I have made a version that is solely compromised of districts that elect between 3 and 5 members (except for states with less than 3 congresscritters; they have at-large districts electing fewer members).

[President Punxsutawney Phil]