| This would not help with gerrymandering. Extremely small districts are much more likely to be homogeneous, ideologically and otherwise. It might make it harder to get disproportionate percentages, but the politicians themselves are extremely unlikely to represent diverse constituents. Even worse is the smaller number of constituents holding their legislators to account. 50,000 people per district, let’s say 40% vote, that’s 20,000 electors per legislator. I’d rather have lots of people keeping their eyes on my representative, not fewer. I’ve never had difficulty getting the attention of my representative. They respond quickly. Smaller electorates result in poorer quality politicians. This happens when city wide elections are converted to district based elections - quality and accountability go down. This is would be a House of Aldermen. |