US House Redistricting: Ohio

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Final Map, pretty conventional other than Northeast.  Numbers are before any county splits.



Southeast: Hamilton is just barely larger than the ideal district size, so slice about 30,000 off the corner.  The Dayton seat need around 70,000 from Warren County, which is about 30% of the county.

Central: Strongest Columbus growth is to the north, so I've kept more of Franklin County in the northern district.   Also keeping less of Franklin County in the soothern district, somewhat reduced Springfield and Newark being satellites of Columbus.

Franklin-Delaware-Morrow have about the correct population for two districts.  If closer adherence to county boundaries was wanted, you could create a U around Franklin County (add Union, Logan, Marion to pink district).

Northeast: A district in the northeast corner doesn't really work any more.  VRA requires that most of the eastern Cuyahoga suburbs go with a Cleveland district, so you're trying to pick up territory that is not too close to Akron, or not to close to Warren, etc.  I've gone with a compact district.

The Cuyahoga split, not shown, would include Cleveland and the eastern suburbs to the county boundary, perhaps Lakewood.  About 40% of the other district is in Lorain, along with the western and southern Cuyahoga suburbs.  Very little of Medina is needed (around 30,000).  About 80,000 in Stark is added to the Akron-based district.  This could be from Massillon and surrounding area.