CONGRESS
BY LOT

Left: 435 people drawn at random. Right: the 435 we elected. Same colours, same sort.

Colour by

By lot

Tap a seat.

Elected

The gap

Group Across 500 draws Lot Elected Diff

Seats are sorted by the active colour, so each block is that group's share of the room.

Each drawn seat is one person — age, then schooling, then work, then income, each conditioned on the last. Tap one to see all of them.

Elected figures are approximate for the current Congress. Every member earns above $100k, so that row is the salary of the office, not the wealth behind it.