Breakin' Down The House!

Seems like a good time to look at it more closely given that it has a new Speaker.

This is an illustration of the voting members (435) as they might appear sitting at their seats in concentric half circles.  I mention voting members because there are also a handful of "shadow" members with positions on committees, but no right to vote from our various colonies, like the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Marianas Islands, and the United States Virgin Islands.  The colors represent the two main political parties, Red being Republicans and Blue representing Democratic members.

So I created my own version of this graphic in order to illustrate some of the disaggregated information and relationship between the voting members.

In this iteration, I attempt to depict the 50 state delegations by relative size (influence?) starting on the right side front seat and seating the delegates alphabetically from front to back ended on the left side front seat.  The colors only represent different delegations and have no significance otherwise.  So the first seat of seven red dots on the right represent Alabama's membership, and the single red dot on the left is Wyoming's single representative.  So, the large sea green delegation on the right is California, and the green group to the left of the upper center is New York, while the red group on the left is Texas.  Make sense?

Next. I ran an imaginary and logical like through each of the delegations and then assigned then numbers that correspond with the congressional district number in the state.  For example the 7 seats from Alabama start with district #1 on the inside of the circle and then work back to the 7th district.  This allows me to represent each district for demographic purposes.  

Here you can call me a scamp, but I have used these colors to indicate which members are Democrats, Republicans and Tea Party members.  Yes, I am treating the Tea Party as a separate party, in spite of their  own cowardice to do the same.  I also indicate here who the men and women are.  There is one error that I discovered after scrutinizing the image more closely, I missed Martha Roby a Republican woman representative from Alabama.  One of those six red dots should also be pink.

By my count, Women make up 19% of the members (51% of the general population...)  There are 18 Republican women, 4 Tea Party women and 62 Democratic woman.  Another way to consider this demographic is this way:

Of the Republican members of the House of Representatives 9% are women (18 of 197)

Of the Tea Party members of the House of Representatives 8% are woman (4 of 48)

Of the Democratic members of the House of Representatives 33% are women (62 of 188)