Michigan:
Sort by Margin, look for the close races in 2020:
ALEC has gerrymandered State House and Senate Races
‘Gerrymandering On Steroids’: How Republicans Stacked The Nation’s Statehouses
John Oliver explains it well (Some Dirty Words – HBO)
34.9% of State Legislative Races had only one (1!) candidate
State Legislative Races
“HIGHLIGHTS
- 85.1% of incumbents sought re-election, the highest percentage in a decade and an increase from 80.6% in 2018.
- 79.7% of incumbents advanced to the general election without a primary challenge, an increase from 78.1% in 2018.
- 34.9% of state legislative seats were contested by only one major party candidate, an increase from 33.2% in 2018.
Seats without major party competition
In 2020, 2,048 state legislative seats, 34.9% of all seats up for election, did not have major party competition. When a candidate from only one of either the Democratic or Republican parties runs for a state legislative seat, the seat is all but guaranteed to be won by that party.
- Democrats contested 82.7% of all state legislative seats. 1,019 state legislative seats (17.3% of all state legislative seats) did not feature a Democratic candidate and were likely to be won by a Republican.
- Republicans contested 82.4% of all state legislative seats. 1,032 seats (17.6% of all state legislative seats) did not feature a Republican candidate and were likely to be won by a Democrat.
- In 11 states, more than half of all seats did not have major party competition.
- In four states, more than 90% of all candidates had major party competition.”
State legislative elections, 2020
US Senate races can not be gerrymandered so ALEC and Kochs want to abolish the 17th Amendment
ALEC and Koch Brothers Want to Gerrymander the Senate
“The right wing is looking to accomplish through gerrymandering what it can’t do at the ballot box.”
Trump Team, ALEC, Koch Industries Debate Gerrymandering the U.S. Senate in Denver
“Now that GOP state legislators have control over 32 state legislatures (both chambers), thanks in large part to partisan gerrymandering, some extremists are preparing to use their clout to gerrymander the U.S. Senate.
This week in Denver, July 19-21, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) will welcome Republican state legislators and its corporate funders, including Koch Industries, ExxonMobil, K12 Inc., Peabody Energy, and PhRMA, to vote on corporate legislative priorities and create cookie cutter “model” bills in task force meetings that are still closed to the press.
ALEC will welcome U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, Newt Gingrich and other Trump loyalists to the meeting.
On the agenda for debate and discussion? A model bill to repeal the 17th Amendment, which established the popular election of United States Senators in 1913.”
The Most Gerrymandered States Ranked by Efficiency Gap and Seat Advantage
The Atlas Of Redistricting
Let’s Look at North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan, New York and Texas ‘Competitiveness’ according to 538,
North Carolina
Pennsylvania
Michigan
New York
Texas
Princeton Gerrymandering Project
House redistricting to eliminate five Democratic incumbents in urban Tennessee
New poll: Everybody Hates Gerrymandering
There are 435 US House Seats
2020 National House Vote Tracker
Don’t get me started on the Electoral College
