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  Keith L. Dougherty
  Associate Professor
 
  Apportionment
 
  Suggested Links
US Census Bureau's Congressional Apportionment Page:
Shows how Congressional Seats are apportioned from census data. Remember apportionment is not the same as redistricting.
Mike Rosenthal's The Mathematics of Social Choice and Decision Making:
This page supports a course taught by a mathematics instructor at FIU. It includes census data, among other things.
A History
of apportionment in the United States.
Equal Voting Weight of All: Finally 'One Person, One Vote' from Hawaii to Maine?:
A research paper by Jurij Toplak.
Why the U.S. should return to Webster's method:
A simple read by Peyton Young.
Apportionment Calculator 2:
An interactive calculator that allows you to determine the affects of apportionment methods on election outcomes - easy calculation of Hamilton, Jefferson, Webster, Hill-Huntington, and Lowndes methods.

Recommended Reading
Balinski, Michel L. and H. Peyton Young. 2001. Fair Representation: Meeting the Ideal of One Man, One Vote. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.
 
Last Modified: 12/31/18