53% of Ohioans Voted for Democrats for Congress
Only 39% Will be Represented by a Dem
The Columbus Dispatch ran an interesting article pointing out that while 53% of Ohio's voters voted for a Democrat for Congress, Democrats only won 7 out of 18 contested seats. This disparity between the actual vote and the election results is one of the worse in the country according to the organization Fair Vote. This is because the GOP has controlled the redistricting for Congressional seats after the 1990 census and the 2000 census. Democrats need to consider pushing for a constitutional amendment that will change the way Ohio apportions congressional and state house districts. A system that stressed competitiveness would be better for Democrats and Republicans both. (Click here to read the full Dispatch article: http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2006/12/03/20061203-A1-02.html )
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This is a little spreadsheet I made on Nov 8th from the unoffical results [they are probably updated]
D's won their district by an average 40% while R's win by 15% margin. Every "winning" D had at least 61% of the vote while only one R "winning" had over 61%. Clearly the D's districts have been "packed" with democratic voters and the R's districts have been structured to provide close races for maximum republican coverage by a republican minority.
District D% R%
1 47.93% 52.07%
2 49.32% 50.58%
3 41.34% 58.66%
4 39.88% 60.12%
5 43.06% 56.94%
6 61.94% 38.06%
7 39.03% 60.97%
8 35.99% 64.01%
9 73.59% 26.41%
10 66.31% 33.69%
11 83.30% 16.70%
12 41.86% 58.14%
13 61.19% 38.81%
14 38.98% 57.63%
15 49.11% 50.88%
16 41.36% 58.64%
17 80.22% 19.78%
18 61.95% 38.05%
Average Margin of victory
39.57% 14.62%
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