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District Size and Party Electoral Strength: A Comparison of Sixteen Democracies

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  • J O'Loughlin

    (Department of Geography, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA)

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Electoral bias is significantly greater in single-member district (Anglo-Saxon) parliamentary systems than in proportional-representation systems. Party advantage related to malapportionment is evident in the United Kingdom, France, Japan, Italy, West Germany, and Ireland, caused by smaller districts in the advantaged party's cores of strength. Regional and rural–urban differences are relatively insignificant.

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  • J O'Loughlin, 1980. "District Size and Party Electoral Strength: A Comparison of Sixteen Democracies," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 12(3), pages 247-262, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:12:y:1980:i:3:p:247-262
    DOI: 10.1068/a120247
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    1. Cohan, A. S. & Mckinlay, R. D. & Mughan, Anthony, 1975. "The Used Vote and Electoral Outcomes: The Irish General Election of 1973," British Journal of Political Science, Cambridge University Press, vol. 5(3), pages 363-383, July.
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