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Political science

the empirical regularity that in two-party plurality elections the ratio of seats won is roughly the cube of the ratio of votes won.

In political science, cube law refers to the empirical regularity that in two-party plurality elections the ratio of seats won is roughly the cube of the ratio of votes won. This meaning comes from Kendall (1950) in The British Journal of Sociology.[1]

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Kendall, M. G., & Stuart, A. (1950). The Law of the Cubic Proportion in Election Results. The British Journal of Sociology, 1(3), 183. https://doi.org/10.2307/588113

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