US House Redistricting: Ohio

[muon2]

Moving right along, I "solved" the issue of OH-05 going from Columbus to the Ohio River.

From the map, one can guess which CD gave me the most headaches to draw. So many psephological "walls," so little time.

CD 7 just looks nasty. What's the redistricting principle there?

[muon2]

It's called gerrymandering Mike. Desperate measures needed to be resorted to, to make it something other than a dummymander, res ipsa loquitur. 

I was taking this preamble as applying to both your first as well as second offerings in this series.

Ohio is set to lose a CD in 2020, and so I prepared a little mappie of what a map at that time might look like, which hews to appropriate non-partisan redistricting principles. I anticipated population changes. Can you guess which CD I projected to grow the most in population, and by a rather substantial amount over the balance of the CD's?  The population range runs from 80,000 over the average population per the 2010 population figures for one CD to 155,000 short for the CD I project will increase in population most robustly.  Obviously, everything is guesstimates.