Districts and Seats in Brazil: Background, Diagnosis and Party Consequences of Malapportionment
Abstract
Malapportionment (the difference between the percentage of voters of a district and the percentage of seats assigned to it) has had party consequences in Brazil. It has been particularly important as a means of negotiation and equilibrium of power between different states. In this respecto, it is possible to measure the representative disparities between the electoral districts that constitute the Federative Republic of Brazil, to offer a diagnosis on the tendency followed by these disparities, and also to compare the current seat distribution against a hypothetical one without malapportionment. In the case of this Latin American country, taking into account the respective electoral support distribution of the parties, it can be stated that malapportionment has affected their representation.
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