Abstract. A computer program is designed to produce all of the electoral constituencies for an English local authority, within the constraints imposed on the Parliamentary Boundary Commissioners. This builds on the seminal work of Gudgin and Taylor, and introduces size constraints, evaluates shape, and evaluates the electoral consequences of swings in voter opinion. Work on electoral bias in recent years, notably that undertaken by Gudgin and Taylor (1979), has demonstrated that the concept of a nonpartisan cartography is a myth. The boundaries of Parliamentary constituencies in Great Britain are defined by an explicitly nonpartisan body, the Parliamentary Boundary Commissioners, and yet the consequences of their decisions are almost always...
A fair allocation of electoral districts would give each citizen as near as possible an equal share ...
visional recommendations for new parliamentary constituencies. These were pro-duced according to new...
The government’s contentious legislation to reduce the number of MPs and introduce a new system for ...
The Commission-based process of local government electoral redistricting in England seeks to balance...
The present work reviews recent computer techniques to the constituency boundary problem. A computer...
Until new legislation was passed in 2011, community ties and continuity of representation were the m...
Until new legislation was passed in 2011, community ties and continuity of representation were the m...
Political districting is a very well-known technical problem related to electoral systems in which t...
Redistricting is the process of dividing states into congressional districts of equal population acc...
The basic redistricting problem is defined as aggregating a set of base (indivisible) units into con...
Redefining legislative districts is a task undertaken by the states after each census in order to en...
The paper presents the problem of choosing the representatives in an assembly when the whole elector...
every four years. The 299 electoral districts play an important role in those elections. In fact, th...
Abstract: Imagine that one could stretch a geographical map so that areas with many people would app...
Abstract: Imagine that one could stretch a geographical map so that areas with many people would app...
A fair allocation of electoral districts would give each citizen as near as possible an equal share ...
visional recommendations for new parliamentary constituencies. These were pro-duced according to new...
The government’s contentious legislation to reduce the number of MPs and introduce a new system for ...
The Commission-based process of local government electoral redistricting in England seeks to balance...
The present work reviews recent computer techniques to the constituency boundary problem. A computer...
Until new legislation was passed in 2011, community ties and continuity of representation were the m...
Until new legislation was passed in 2011, community ties and continuity of representation were the m...
Political districting is a very well-known technical problem related to electoral systems in which t...
Redistricting is the process of dividing states into congressional districts of equal population acc...
The basic redistricting problem is defined as aggregating a set of base (indivisible) units into con...
Redefining legislative districts is a task undertaken by the states after each census in order to en...
The paper presents the problem of choosing the representatives in an assembly when the whole elector...
every four years. The 299 electoral districts play an important role in those elections. In fact, th...
Abstract: Imagine that one could stretch a geographical map so that areas with many people would app...
Abstract: Imagine that one could stretch a geographical map so that areas with many people would app...
A fair allocation of electoral districts would give each citizen as near as possible an equal share ...
visional recommendations for new parliamentary constituencies. These were pro-duced according to new...
The government’s contentious legislation to reduce the number of MPs and introduce a new system for ...