State Legislature Redistricting

[JohnnyLongtorso]

Here's the breakdown of the map:

http://www.msjrc.state.ms.us/pdf/proposed_house_long-report_build1.pdf

It looks like there are 44 majority-black districts, out of 122 total.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

The Mississippi Senate rejected the House map:

http://www.sunherald.com/2011/03/08/2926075/miss-house-redistricting-killed.html

[JohnnyLongtorso]

This article suggests that the map adopted for New Jersey's legislative districts will be the one drawn by the Democrats.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

It would appear that the Mississippi legislature put aside their differences and passed their original plans.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

Looks like we're going to get Virginia's maps on the 29th.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

Virginia's proposed maps are available here (official source, slow but has district numbers on the map) and here (media source, faster but you have to click for district numbers).

Louisiana's Senate map was passed by the Senate and is expected to be passed by the House. Here is a rather large pdf file of the bill, and here is the news article detailing the vote.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

The Democrats win in New Jersey: the tiebreaker dude picked their map for the legislature.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

Here's an article with a little background on the Virginia plans. Sen. George Barker used DRA to draw the preliminary Senate map.

The Democrats win in New Jersey: the tiebreaker dude picked their map for the legislature.

Didn't this happen last time too?

I believe so.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

Well, here's the New Jersey map and here's the racial breakdown. (Cribbed from Blue Jersey.)

[JohnnyLongtorso]

Here's the revised Virginia Senate map:

http://redistricting.dls.virginia.gov/2010/RedistrictingPlans.aspx#26

Basically caps the Democrats at 22 seats (the Republican-held 10th would be competitive if it were open, but not as long as the incumbent remains in it), so they can afford to lose one seat at most. Good job, Senate Dems. The major changes: the second seat in Virginia Beach is restored, a new district is created east of Lynchburg (the 22nd), and there's a new district in Loudoun (the 13th).

[JohnnyLongtorso]

Here's the map of the Illinois House proposal. It's quite a masterwork of spaghetti-strand districts.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

Here's a pretty map from the Chicago Tribune of the proposed Illinois Senate districts.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

The Illinois maps are on their way to the Governor's desk.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

The Republicans' proposed map doesn't create a black-plurality district in Dover, nor does the existing map have one.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

Actually, from what I've heard, the Delaware Senate plan doles out favors to the Senate President's friends and allies (there are a couple of Republicans who are given safe seats, while two others are put in tougher seats). Not everything is some grand racist white liberal conspiracy.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

does anyone know what Mike Gronstal's district looks like in Iowa. I really hope he isn't the Tom Daschle of Iowa.

It appears to have been renumbered from SD-50 to SD-08, but is otherwise almost exactly the same district taking in most or all of Council Bluffs.

New map: http://www.legis.iowa.gov/DOCS/Resources/Redist/2011/2011-03-31/SenateStatewide8x11_color.pdf
Old map: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Iowa_Senate_districts.jpg

[JohnnyLongtorso]

Proposed map for the Vermont House of Representatives:

http://vermont-elections.org/2011LABMaps.html

It eliminates all of the two-member districts.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

Proposed map for the Vermont House of Representatives:

http://vermont-elections.org/2011LABMaps.html

It eliminates all of the two-member districts.

Interesting. Does this mean they might be changing the crazy multi-member Senate districts?

It looks like they might be breaking up the bigger districts:

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[JohnnyLongtorso]

This is comical. They're going to have to start over with the Vermont Senate map because...

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[JohnnyLongtorso]

Proposed Arkansas Senate maps:

Beebe's.
McDaniel's.

State legislative maps in Arkansas are approved by a three-person panel consisting of the Governor, Attorney General, and Secretary of State. I've heard these maps guarantee the Democrats about 15-16 seats, so they'd have to hold a couple more seats to keep their majority.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

Arkansas is done.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

Proposed WV Senate map:



I hear it's passed the Senate.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

Maryland's proposed districts.

Some observations:

- Looks like they're trying to screw Sen. Nancy Jacobs, the erstwhile Senate Minority Leader, out of her seat, by cutting the Cecil County portion out of the 34th.
- Speaker Michael Busch gets a safe district in Annapolis. They're splitting up a lot of the House districts in Anne Arundel, probably trying to squeeze another seat or two out.
- 38th gets split up three ways, probably to protect Del. Norm Conway, but possibly also to try to pick up 38A. Doesn't look like they did much to shore up Sen. Mathias, except maybe to cut out a bit of Wicomico southeast of Salisbury.
- 3rd shrinks a bit, probably will help out Sen. Ronald Young.
- It looks like they screwed Sen. James Brochin in the 42nd by making his district a lot more Republican. I'm not sure why they did that.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

I hope Cuomo vetoes that mess.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

A judge threw out Kentucky's state legislative maps.