Improved representation under the Fair Representation Act

The Fair Representation Act would implement multi-member districts for Congress, where each district would elect between three and five representatives. Representatives would be elected with proportional ranked choice voting, a form of proportional representation in which groups earn seats based on their share of the vote.

It would end “winner-take-all” politics where one group has to lose in order for another to win.

With the Fair Representation Act, a single district could be represented by up to five congresspeople, reflecting the full diversity present within that district.

New research from the MGGG Redistricting Lab at Tisch College of Tufts University finds that the Fair Representation Act would improve representation for communities of color in nearly every state. Even more strikingly, it finds that these positive impacts are essentially immune to gerrymandering – the positive findings remain regardless of how the lines are drawn.

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These graphics were developed from the data in Modeling the Fair Representation Act by the MGGG Redistricting Lab at Tisch College of Tufts University.