Odd map out
Britain, Canada, Australia, and the United States share much in their political systems, including bicameralism, federalism in the case of the latter three, single-member electoral districts for national-level elections, and, with the wonderful wrinkle of Australia's preferential balloting system, first-past-the-post voting for elections to the lower house of the national-level legislature.
Still, one of these things is decidedly not like the others. Here are the national-level electoral maps of the largest cities in each of the four countries, starting with the central urban portion of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada:
London, England, United Kingdom:
And New York, New York, U.S.A.:
The truly scary thing: New York's not even the worst. Try Miami. Or Chicago.
Labels: democracy, gerrymandering, pretty maps
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