&gt;<i>But their representation is not too large. It&#x27;s exactly the size it should be - one vote for one person.</i><p>Consider a country with 10,100 people, where 100 baby boomers voted and only 1 younger person bothered to vote but the general demographics are the inverse ratio (10,000 young people, 100 baby boomers).<p>The exact word to use for the baby boomers voting influence there would be &quot;disproportionate&quot;.<p>That&#x27;s literally what the word means -- it&#x27;s not tied to the voting system, or stealing votes.<p>It&#x27;s disproportionate not because they got more votes than it&#x27;s fair to according to the voting system, or because they don&#x27;t deserve those votes, but because they got more votes than what would be the ideal proportional representation of the two demographic groups.<p>(E.g. where young&#x2F;old is as close to votes_of_young&#x2F;votes_of_old as a ratio).<p>The two groups have the same capacity&#x2F;opportunity to get proportional representation (in the voting system), but they don&#x27;t have actual proportional representation (in the voting results).