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hPVI 2021, Senate edition

March 16, 2022

The 2021 Edition of Minnesota’s Oldest and Most Beloved Legislative District Partisan Metric

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hPVI 2019, House edition

September 16, 2019

Partisan scores for Minnesota House districts

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hPVI 2019, Senate edition

September 9, 2019

Partisan scores for Minnesota Senate districts

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hPVI 2017, House edition

December 5, 2017

Partisan scores for Minnesota House districts

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hPVI 2017, Senate edition

December 4, 2017

Partisan scores for Minnesota Senate districts

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hPVI 2017 Explainer

December 4, 2017

A primer for the fifth edition of hPVI, Minnesota’s most beloved Legislative district metric

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2015 Minnesota hPVI

June 15, 2015

The forth of edition of Minnesota’s most beloved Legislative district metric

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Minnesota House hPVI, 2013 edition

July 16, 2013

This post is part of a series of posts concerning hPVI. The first phase of this series involves the introduction of brand spanking new 2013 hPVIs. That phase, the first, is the one in which this post belongs. This part of the first phase, the third part, concerns the actual hPVIs for the Minnesota House. […]

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Minnesota Senate hPVI, 2013 edition

July 8, 2013

This post continues a series of posts concerning hPVI. The first phase of said series of posts involves the introduction of brand spanking new 2013 hPVIs. The first phase is the phase in which we currently find ourselves. All of this implies that this series will go through multiple phases. This part of the first […]

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hPVI 2013, a prelude

July 8, 2013

With the 2012 election in the books and the legislative session now over, it’s time to roll out the new edition of hPVI. Not to be confused with the actual New Edition. If you are unfamiliar with hPVI, this post goes into some detail about the metric itself, but here’s a short version. Partisan Voting Index (PVI) […]

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A Brief History of Ideology in the Minnesota Legislature

June 6, 2013

Last week I took a look at a new metric that attempts to measure the relative Ideology of state Legislatures and Legislators. Called “np_score” and developed by Boris Shor and Nolan McCarty (their website is at Measuring American Legislatures) the metric ranges from roughly -2 (very liberal) to +2 (very conservative). This metric is derived […]

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Ideology Scores for State Legislatures

May 29, 2013

In which I discover some new numbers to geek-out about