They're coming for us ... what will you do?

[HurricaneDitka]

@RTFirefly

Anyhow, just to help out HD, the standard benchmark is “share of two-party vote” where the numerator is the D or R vote, and the denominator is the D+R vote. The reason for this is that while the share of the vote earned by minor parties may vary from one election to another, it doesn’t matter in our system, and specifically has no bearing on the division of any legislature between D and R.

“the standard benchmark”?

Why then, pray tell does Wikipedia choose to use a non-standard benchmark in reporting the election results? Is it possible this “standard benchmark”, while certainly one valid way to analyze at election results, is not the only way? Perhaps it’s not quite as “standard” as you two imagine?