Voter Power Indexes

Vote Power Index provides tools to run both Banzhaf Power Index and Shapley–Shubik Index to analyse 2 party poltical geographies like US Congresstional Districts to see if the reapproation process maintained Mintorities communties to elect their candidate of choice

Usage

power_index(df, OtherPopCol, TargetPopCol, Party1, Party2, vIndex=None, filename=None)

Parameters

df - Pandas Dataframe

OtherPopCol - Majority community

TargetPopCol - Minority community

OtherParty - None colitlition party of choice

ColilitionParty - Colitlition party of choice

vIndex (ssi/bpi/none):

• None both indexes
• ssi Shapley–Shubik Index
• bpi Banzhaf Power Inde

filename - optional