Comment by nomel

I would like to see the relation between competence and strength of political alignment (as in, deviation from 50/50 red/blue vote for local government).

I naively expect that less strongly aligned cities are run more competently, because the concept of "consequences" can exist. Where I am, there's a very strong political alignment, so no consequences at all. The same group of people will be voted for, no matter what they do.