{"id":13456,"date":"2014-12-08T16:53:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T16:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/how-gerrymandering-stacked-the-deck-in-2014-north-carolina-elections\/"},"modified":"2014-12-08T16:53:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T16:53:00","slug":"how-gerrymandering-stacked-the-deck-in-2014-north-carolina-elections","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/de\/articles\/how-gerrymandering-stacked-the-deck-in-2014-north-carolina-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Wie Gerrymandering die Wahlen 2014 in North Carolina beeinflusste"},"template":"","class_list":["post-13456","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","article_type-blog-post"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"An examination of 2014 election results in North Carolina shows that effective gerrymandering left many legislative candidates unopposed and caused a large discrepancy between partisan votes and results.","featured_image":null,"article_type":1103,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":7854}"],"related_issues":[103,169,2066],"related_work":false,"location":null},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<p>Eine Untersuchung der Wahlergebnisse von 2014 in North Carolina zeigt, dass durch effektives Gerrymandering viele Kandidaten f\u00fcr die Legislative ohne Gegenkandidaten blieben und eine gro\u00dfe Diskrepanz zwischen parteipolitischen Stimmen und Ergebnissen entstand. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizen-times.com\/story\/news\/local\/2014\/12\/01\/picks-winners-party-people\/19749891\/\">The Asheville Citizen-Times reports<\/a> the following results of congressional and state legislative districts drawn by the legislature to maximize partisan gain:<\/p><p><ul><li>Half of all state House races and 38 percent of all state Senate races featured only one candidate.<\/li><li>Republican candidates won 55.4 percent of all votes for U.S. House but won 76.9 percent of the seats.<\/li><li>Republican candidates won 53.8 percent of all votes for state Senate but won 68 percent of the seats.<\/li><li>Republican candidates won 54.1 percent of all votes for state House but won 61.7 percent of the seats.<\/li><\/ul><\/p><p>Common Cause North Carolina&rsquo;s Jane Pinsky <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizen-times.com\/story\/news\/local\/2014\/12\/01\/picks-winners-party-people\/19749891\/\">details how Democrats gerrymandered districts in previous cycles when they controlled the legislature and advocates for a less partisan redistricting process in the article.<\/a> Discussing the challenge of passing reform in the legislature, Pinsky states: \"It's pretty hard for a legislator to say, 'I'm going to give up the ability to have job security.&rdquo;<\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizen-times.com\/story\/news\/local\/2014\/12\/01\/picks-winners-party-people\/19749891\/\">Read the full article.<\/a><\/p>"}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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