bgwah
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« on: January 10, 2012, 07:35:10 PM » |
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I've played around with this before with Washington's legislature. If you use the fourth root for our 2000 population (5,894,121), you get 49 seats... Which is exactly how many legislative seats we actually have! Applying it to our 2010 population (6,724,540) yields 51 seats! If only it actually worked this way. Might have made redistricting easier in the fastest growing areas---Clark County's legislative districts, for example, are very messy.
The cube root rule would give us 189 seats. If we had a unicameral legislature that would be a pretty good number.
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