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2020 Virginia House Of Delegates: Demographics And Voting Behavior, Nathan Tatum Jan 2020

2020 Virginia House Of Delegates: Demographics And Voting Behavior, Nathan Tatum

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The focus of this project is on the demographic makeup of the 2020 Virginia House of Delegates, and how various demographic factors - political affiliation, gender/sex, race, religious affiliation, education level, and age - may influence their voting behavior on different legislation. The paper is divided into three parts. The first part explains the measures and methodology used in the creation of the dataset. The second and third parts make use of the information collected in the dataset. The second part details the demographic makeup of the 2020 Va. House and compares the makeup of the House to the makeup …