Louisiana v. Callais · ¶62

The next term—“other members of the electorate”—specifes the comparator to be used in determining whether the group protected by subsection (a) has suffered or is threatened with suffering “less opportunity . . . to elect representatives of their choice.” In conceptualizing the members of this comparator group, we may think of a randomly selected member of the electorate who has particular voting preferences, or we may think of a randomly selected group of voters who share certain voting preferences. These voting preferences may be based on a candidate's party affliation, ideology, stance on a particular policy issue, personal charisma, or some other characteristic or set of characteristics. But whatever they are, the situation of these randomly selected voters must be compared with that of minority voters alleged to have suffered vote dilution.

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