Gerrymandering defeated - Pennsylvania results

[muriel_volestrangler]

From Wikipedia for 2016 with Republican-drawn borders, and the Washington Post for 2018, with the court-drawn boundaries.

2016: Republicans got 51.5% of the vote in the 15 contested districts and won 11 of them, plus they won 2 uncontested (Democrats 48.0%, won 4 and 1 uncontested)

2018: Republicans got 47.1% of the vote in the 17 contested districts and won 9 of them (Democrats 52.7%, won 8 and 1 uncontested)

So it's gone from blatantly fixed, to pretty much even - a 10-8 Democratic win might have been slightly more proportional, but it's arguable, and there is some genuine Democratic concentration of votes (the same Democrat, Dwight Evans, got over 90% of the vote in both years).

Democracy won, as well as Democrats.

[Roland99]

1. NC next!