# Wisconsin Supreme Court Election - hugely important election happening now **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [April 4, 2023, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-supreme-court-election-hugely-important-election-happening-now/982158 "2023-04-04T22:09:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2023, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-supreme-court-election-hugely-important-election-happening-now/982158/101 "2023-04-19T00:11:55Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > I agree that there should be some recognition of larger-area, lower-density regional proclivities apart from mere population numbers, but not nearly to that extent. This isn’t some immutable law of nature or anything. In the past I calculated the difference of lean between the mean district and the median district for a bunch of states and several states managed to overcome this. If I have time, I might do it again. As a quick and dirty substitute I can do something similar using [Cook Partisan Voting Index](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook_Partisan_Voting_Index). Down the page there’s a collapsable table of the Cook PVI for all 435 congressional districts in the country. It doesn’t take much work to pull that table into a spreadsheet and calculate: 1. The mean district is D+0.41. 2. The median district is R+1. So there’s a skew of about R+1.41. If there is some built in structural advantage toward low population density areas and a detriment to high population areas, this is size of that effect across the entire country. Wisconsin has eight congressional districts so we can also calculate: 1. The mean Wisconsin district is R+1.13. 2. The median Wisconsin district is R+7. This results in an R+5.87 skew which means Wisconsin congressional districts are skewed toward Republicans 4.46 points more than the nation as a whole. New Jersey on the other hand, with 12 CDs, has a mean of D+7.08 and a median of D+7 which is almost has no skew at all. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2023, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-supreme-court-election-hugely-important-election-happening-now/982158/102 "2023-04-19T00:14:30Z")
The Fair Representation Act fixes Wisconsin. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2023, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-supreme-court-election-hugely-important-election-happening-now/982158/103 "2023-04-19T00:16:42Z")
Well said. ---
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2023, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-supreme-court-election-hugely-important-election-happening-now/982158/104 "2023-04-19T00:24:16Z")
> [@Red\_Wiggler](#): > > The Fair Representation Act fixes Wisconsin. Lot’s of things “fix Wisconsin”, it’s not that hard, and some of those things have the support of more than ten congresspeople. ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2023, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-supreme-court-election-hugely-important-election-happening-now/982158/105 "2023-04-19T00:37:47Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > Not untrue…but, as a human (including political) geographer based in a small city in west-central Wisconsin, I gotta tell you — there’s no escaping the reality of the gerrymandering, as summarized in the post above. > I agree that there should be some recognition of larger-area, lower-density regional proclivities apart from mere population numbers, but not nearly to that extent. What do you propose? ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2023, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-supreme-court-election-hugely-important-election-happening-now/982158/106 "2023-04-19T00:49:39Z")
This one works well (as do several others that emerged from this project with public input): > **[Redistricting Report Card](https://gerrymander.princeton.edu/redistricting-report-card/?planId=recnnLS3xX8Lhij8n)** > > Gerrymandering Project [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-supreme-court-election-hugely-important-election-happening-now/982158.md?page=5)