• DOI:10.2307/795047
• Corpus ID: 85534549

Multi-Member Electoral Districts-Do They Violate the "One Man, One Vote" Principle

@article{Banzhaf1966MultiMemberED,
  title={Multi-Member Electoral Districts-Do They Violate the "One Man, One Vote" Principle},
  author={Banzhaf and F Avery Jones John},
  journal={Yale Law Journal},
  year={1966},
  volume={75},
  pages={1309-1338}
}

• Banzhaf, F. John
• Published 1 July 1966
• Political Science
• Yale Law Journal

mathematical analysis may suggest that the results are equally abstract and that the conclusions are primarily of academic interest. The following analysis of multi-member district systems in 40. In actual practice, people often choose various positions on any given issue. However, these can always be broken down, as the legislator must eventually do, into a series of yes or no answers to a number of specific legislative proposals. This content downloaded from 207.46.13.11 on Tue, 18 Oct 2016 05:36:05 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms 1330 THE YALE LAW JOURNAL [Vol.75:1309 Arkansas, Georgia, Hawaii, Texas, and Wyoming-each of which has recently been involved in reapportionment litigation 41-demonstrates the extent of the inequalities which may exist in many states today. The simplified mathematical model in each case assumes that all dis- tricts electing one legislator have the same population and that the populations of the other districts are exact multiples. Because popu- lations are not divided with mathematical precision, the actual ine- qualities will vary somewhat from the figures presented in each table but these variations will be small compared with the inequalities shown in the tables. In each table minus signs (-) indicate under- representation while plus signs (+) indicate over-representation (with respect to each of the two averages).