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

J O'Loughlin
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J O'Loughlin: Department of Geography, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA

Environment and Planning A, 1980, vol. 12, issue 3, 247-262

Abstract: 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.

Date: 1980
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DOI: 10.1068/a120247

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