Gallagher index
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title:
Gallagher index
text:
The Gallagher index measures an electoral system's relative disproportionality between votes received and seats in a legislature. As such, it measures the difference between the percentage of votes each party gets and the percentage of seats each party gets in the resulting legislature, and it also measures this disproportionality from all parties collectively in any one given election. That collective disproportionality from the election is given a precise score, which can then be used in compa
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Measure of electoral disproportionality
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallagher_index
date created:
2005-04-15T10:09:02Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T14:20:50Z
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