Figure 5 | Electoral Competition in Assembly Races in New York and Connecticut (1976 to 2022)

The graph shows the average levels of electoral competition in the state assemblies of Connecticut and New York from 1976 to 2022. Electoral competition is defined as one minus the difference between the vote shares of the winning and losing candidates.

Source: Data from 1968 to 2016 comes from Carl Klarner’s State Legislative Election Returns. Data from 2018 onwards was compiled by authors. Get the data
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