Tag: Congressional Power Values

Congressional Power Values

 

This is a measure of your ability to access your Congressional representation, per person.

Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands are the lowest @  0 representation at all – still listed as colonies by the UN, because they have no right to vote.

California’s is the lowest at .05 for the Senate, and 1.48 overall

Wyoming is the highest at 3.45 for the Senate, and 5.3 overall .

This means, in California, your chances of seeing your Senator are about the same as meeting Ariana Grande- 39 million constituents. In smaller states, like Wyoming or Delaware- 2 Senators serve 500k people.

As someone correctly noted you still have 2 Senators and one House Rep- but your chances of ever meeting your Senator, are next to non-existent.

A house has that has 2 bathrooms has 2 bathrooms if 1 or 14 people live there.  A considerable difference in how well it works out.

To be clear I do not believe this is the greatest problem in our country, but it is important to know. I don’t want small states or regions to be ignored, but I don’t think handicapping them is the way to go about it.

I believe this might be a better way, defining what regional area statistics are, and looking for anomolies and why things are different.

 

1	California	39,250,017	53	702,905	2	0.0537	1.4226	1.4763
2	Texas	27,862,596	36	698,487	2	0.0795	1.4316	1.5112
3	Florida	20,612,439	27	696,345	2	0.1064	1.4358	1.5422
4	New York	19,745,289	27	717,707	2	0.1032	1.3933	1.4965

 

43	Rhode Island	1,056,426	2	526,284	2	1.8995	1.8995	3.7989
44	Montana	1,042,520	1	989,415	2	2.0214	1.0107	3.0321
45	Delaware	952,065	1	897,934	2	2.2273	1.1137	3.3410
46	South Dakota	865,454	1	814,180	2	2.4564	1.2282	3.6846
47	North Dakota	757,952	1	672,591	2	2.9736	1.4868	4.4604
48	Alaska	741,894	1	710,231	2	2.8159	1.4080	4.2239
—	District of Columbia	681,170	0	—	0	0.0000	0.0000	0.0000
49	Vermont	624,594	1	625,741	2	3.1962	1.5981	4.7943
50	Wyoming	585,501	1	563,626	2	3.5476	1.7738	5.3213