Some Practice Problems
For each set of districts:
Fill in the table and calculate the efficiency gap. Remember, the efficiency gap is:
|(one party's wasted votes) - (another party's wasted votes)| / total number of votes
Determine whether the districts are gerrymandered. Remember, an efficiency gap greater than 7% is considered gerrymandering.
3. Calculate the efficiency gap for the 2016 presidential election in Maryland: