EG Weighting Districts

TL;DR

This paper explores the Equal Population (EG) measure used in gerrymandering analysis, demonstrating how it can be represented as a weighting function to better understand election asymmetries.

Contribution

It introduces a novel representation of the EG measure as a weighting function, providing new insights into gerrymandering quantification.

Findings

EG can be expressed as a weighting function

Representation aids in understanding election asymmetries

Supports legal and scholarly analysis of gerrymandering

Abstract

This past decade has seen a noticeable uptick in asymmetric election results along with the inevitable claims of gerrymandering and litigation. Research, too, has followed, giving rise to intense scrutiny of elections, where the goal is to understand not only what goes into gerrymandering, but how to measure what comes out. Perhaps the most cited symmetry measure of this decade is the EG. The EG has been commonplace in gerrymandering litigation nationwide and the focus of numerous articles, both popular and scholarly. This article shows how the EG can be represented as a weighting function. This is not the full WDM article though it shows up in Google searches. For the full WDM article, please see https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3308888