How The American Electoral College Would Look If It Was Used In Europe – Brilliant Maps

The
map
above
shows
the
slight
absurdities
of
the
American
Electoral
College
system.
It
redistributes
the
538
electoral
college
votes
used
in
the
US
system
to
the
50
countries
in
Europe
seen
above.

Under
it,
each
state
has
at
least
3
electoral
college
votes
representing
1
congressperson,
and
2
Senators.

The
Electoral
College
is
then
tasked
with
electing
the
president
every
4
years.

In
our
European
example
above
the
Vatican
each
vote
would
represent
just
255
people
whereas
in
Russia
each
vote
would
represent
over
2
million
people!

Micro
states
like
Monaco,
San
Marino,
Andorra
and
Liechtenstein
would
also
get
3
each
the
same
as
somewhere
like
Iceland
with
as
much
as
10X
the
population.

So
here’s
how
the
numbers
work
out
for
Europe
as
a
whole
(and
someone
has
also
done
the
work
for
if
only
the
EU
was
included).

xMusa24
explains
that:

Every
country
has
at
least
3
electoral
votes.

On
average
1
electoral
vote
represents
about
999,640
people.

1
electoral
vote
of
Vatican
City
represents
about
255
people,
while
1
Russian
electoral
vote
represents
about
2,086,919
people.

Source
populations
=
The
United
Nations
estimates,
published
in
the
UN’s
World
Population
Prospects. https://population.un.org/wpp/

Here
are
the
the
countries
ranked
from
most
to
least
electoral
college
votes:

In
the
US
California
has
the
worst
relative
representation
at
1
EC
vote
per
1.3
million
people,
whereas
Wyoming
get
1
EC
vote
per
196,000
people.

Reddit
user
miclugo
did
the
work
for
just
the
EU:

Here’s
what
I
get,
based
on
the
populations
at

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apportionment_in_the_European_Parliament
and
435
seats.

Population
is
448,387,872,
or
1,030,776
per
seat,
so
I
just
divide
the
country’s
population
by
that
constant,
and
then
add
2
EV
corresponding
to
the
“Senate”.

–
Germany:
84
–
France:
68
–
Italy:
59
–
Spain:
49
–
Poland:
38
–
Romania:
20
–
Netherlands:
18
–
Belgium,
Czechia:
13
–
Sweden,
Portugal,
Greece:
12
–
Hungary,
Austria:
11
–
Bulgaria,
Denmark:
8
–
Finland,
Slovakia,
Ireland:
7
–
Croatia:
6
–
Lithuania:
5
–
Slovenia,
Latvia:
4
–
Estonia,
Cyprus,
Luxembourg,
Malta:
3

Total
EV
is
435
+
2*27
=
489.

By
the
way
Malta
(the
least
populous
EU
member)
has
542,051
people.
This
is
less
than
Wyoming
but
not
by
much.

What
do
you
think
of
electoral
college
system?

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