File:USHouseStructure2012-2022 SeatsByState.png

原始文件(2,000 × 1,053像素,文件大小:417 KB,MIME类型:image/png


摘要

描述
English: Diagram of the US House of Representatives showing all 435 voting seats grouped by state. Largest-to-smallest states are shown in a generally left-to-right clockwise flow.

- The 9 largest states have a majority of the seats/votes, with the other 41 having less than half.

- The four largest states (CA, TX, NY & FL) have more combined votes than 34 of the smallest states.

- California by itself has more votes than 21 of the smallest states combined.

- Texas by itself has more votes than 17 of the smallest states put together.

These facts can be understood as a straightforward matter of larger populations requiring a greater number of seats to represent them, per the principles of representative democracy. What this image also illuminates is the converse situation, the problem of the Senate, where states are given two votes each regardless of the number of people that a single Senator represents. At the time the Senate was created, the most populous state (Virginia) had roughly 10 times as many people as the least populous state (Delaware). This imbalance has been greatly magnified to the current situation where the most populous state today (California) has nearly 70 times as many people as the least populous state (Wyoming). See Malapportionment. This Washington Post article from 2013 has a graph that shows how grossly imbalanced the Senate representation is:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/03/11/if-youre-from-california-you-should-hate-the-senate/.

Seat apportionment presented in this diagram can be verified at this table.
日期
来源 File:112USHouseStructure.svg
作者 ChrisnHouston

许可协议

我,本作品著作权人,特此采用以下许可协议发表本作品:
Creative Commons CC-Zero 本作品采用知识共享CC0 1.0 通用公有领域贡献许可协议授权。
采用本宣告发表本作品的人,已在法律允许的范围内,通过在全世界放弃其对本作品拥有的著作权法规定的所有权利(包括所有相关权利),将本作品贡献至公有领域。您可以复制、修改、传播和表演本作品,将其用于商业目的,无需要求授权。

说明

添加一行文字以描述该文件所表现的内容

此文件中描述的项目

描绘内容

文件历史

点击某个日期/时间查看对应时刻的文件。

日期/时间缩⁠略⁠图大小用户备注
当前2013年10月20日 (日) 20:002013年10月20日 (日) 20:00版本的缩略图2,000 × 1,053(417 KB)ChrisnHoustonSubtle tweak for color uniformity.
2013年10月7日 (一) 03:342013年10月7日 (一) 03:34版本的缩略图2,000 × 1,053(377 KB)ChrisnHoustonUser created page with UploadWizard

以下页面使用本文件:

全域文件用途

以下其他wiki使用此文件:

元数据