Would you like a more engaging way to teach students about electoral systems? The answer might be “yes” if you’ve been doing it with lecture slides. Compensation seats? Here’s a table of results from New Zealand. D’Hondt versus Sainte-Laguë divisors? Here’s the Belgian Parliament with either.
What if the lesson used an example students care about? What if it were interactive?
As you see above, a website now lets users explore the 2025 New York City Council results under different electoral systems. It also covers measures used in comparative politics to analyze the result of an election. The numbers below came from the existing electoral system. 3.3 “effective” parties is a lot!
Check out my post in The Bigger Apple for more context on the 2025 results.