The Seat Allocation Engine

Paint the Electorate Click and drag to distribute votes across 100 citizens (10 districts). The party with the plurality in each row wins that district's seat. The Seat Allocation Engine lets you explore this hands-on instead of only reading about it.

This unit focuses on the mechanisms through which citizens choose their leaders and the organizations, such as political parties and social movements, that represent their interests. It focuses on Proportional Representation, Single-Member District Plurality, Multi-party Systems, Two-party Systems, Social Movements, Interest Groups from the “Unit 4: Party and Electoral Systems and Citizen Organizations” section.

You can drag elements directly on the canvas; the “Clear Electorate”, “SMDP (Plurality)”, “PR (D'Hondt)” buttons run actions or reset the demo. Every change updates the visualization in real time, so you can see exactly how each variable affects the outcome.

AP Comparative Government and Politics introduces students to the complex world of global politics by analyzing the structures and challenges of six core countries: China, Iran, Mexico, Nigeria, Russia, and the United K… This demo is the interactive piece for the “Unit 4: Party and Electoral Systems and Citizen Organizations” section. Open the full AP Comparative Government and Politics course wiki at https://www.getlykke.com/explore/public/ap-comparative-government-and-politics-8324ab45-8a6b-4519-be08-73c29c1090f8 for notes, flashcards, quizzes and the other demos.

You'll build intuition for Proportional Representation, Single-Member District Plurality, Multi-party Systems, Two-party Systems, Social Movements, Interest Groups — and, crucially, see how they behave when you change the inputs, which is hard to get from a textbook or lecture on AP Comparative Government and Politics alone.