Map of German voting disctricts (IMAGE)

Technical University of Munich (TUM)

Map of German voting disctricts

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Although the electoral wards for the German election were newly tailored in 2012, already in 2013, the year of the election, population changes led to deviations above the desired maximum value in some of them (left). The mathematical method results in significantly lower deviations, thus providing better fault tolerance.

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Image: F. Klemm / TUM

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