600 member House of Reps

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Dist 1: Bill Jenkins (R)
Dist 2: Jimmy Duncan (R)
Dist 3: Tim Burchett (R)
Dist 4: Lincoln Davis (D)
Dist 5: Zach Wamp (R)
Dist 6: Van Hilleary (R)
Dist. 7: Bill Ketron (R)
Dist. 8: Marsha Blackburn (R)
Dist. 9: Rob Briley (D)
Dist. 10: Dianne Black (R)
Dist: 11: John Tanner (D)
Dist. 12: Bob Schutt (R)
Dist. 13: Mark Norris (R)
Dist. 14: Harold Ford Jr. (D)

"Interesting" that despite there being 5 (or is it 4?) more Congressmen, you've managed to to draw on less Democratic congressman than there is at the moment...

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Muhahahaha!

The odd man out (other than Jim Cooper who I think would be replaced by Briley) would be Bart Gordon.  Bart represents an increasingly Republican district but continues to get elected with huge margins based on a strong sense of loyalty and just enough Democrats to keep him afloat. (Not to mention weak GOP candidates since Gill and Blackburn's close losses in the mid 90's) Split up Rutherford county and give Trousdale and other Dem counties to Lincoln Davis and Gordon is out of the picture.

I'd spotted that... your map is an excellent example of the fact that a map doesn't have to look ugly to be biased towards one side.
Very clever... almost a work of art actually. Congratulations ;-)

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I began this project to make state CD maps for a 600 member House.  I have Maine and PA finished with maps.  I have a bunch of others that I do not have computer maps for.  If anyone knows where to get good, large county maps, share.

Can't see the maps :-(
Can you do them in .png or .gif ?

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I don't think Jon Fox would have survived until 2004, he only got 44% in a state house race this year.

Yeah that was pathetic. He's done with politics.

Or has politics done with him? ;-)

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Jake: how many districts for each state?

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I'll post the list later today.

Yay! :-)

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I know the feeling...

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I was going to comment about ME, but I see you've caught that.

Did you use the official 2000 numbers? I get the following list for apportionment (469K/seat with 600 seats):

AL 10, AK 1, AZ 11, AR 6, CA 72, CO 9, CT 7, DE 2, FL 34, GA 17, HI 3, ID 3, IL 26, IN 13, IA 6, KS 6, KY 9, LA 10,  ME 3, MD 11, MA 14, MI 21, MN 11, MS 6, MO 12, MT 2, NE 4, NV 4, NH 3, NJ 18, NM 4, NY 40, NC 17, ND 1, OH 24, OK 7, OR 7, PA 26, RI 2, SC 9, SD 2, TN 12, TX 45, UT 5, VT 1, VA 15, WA 13, WV 4, WI 11, WY 1


A real change in the number of seats could in principle be placed into effect for 2010 to be used in the next apportionment.  Using the projection method I discussed with jimrtex recently, and 600 seats, the ideal district would become 519K in 2010.

The new apportionment for 2010 would look like:
AL 9, AK 1, AZ 13, AR 6, CA 75, CO 10, CT 7, DE 2, FL 38, GA 19, HI 3, ID 3, IL 25, IN 12, IA 6, KS 5, KY 8, LA 9,  ME 3, MD 11, MA 13, MI 20, MN 10, MS 6, MO 11, MT 2, NE 3, NV 6, NH 3, NJ 17, NM 4, NY 38, NC 18, ND 1, OH 22, OK 7, OR 7, PA 24, RI 2, SC 9, SD 2, TN 12, TX 48, UT 5, VT 1, VA 15, WA 13, WV 4, WI 11, WY 1

Excellent...

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WV is easy: just bring back the pre-'92 map and add a few counties to WV-4 'cos of population loss.
I'll post a map in a minute (interestingly there's no way that Capito could have won under the old map)

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I moved Boone into WV-4... could have done more fiddling, but I suspect that the the above is the map that the legislature would draw.

As for Congressmen:

WV-1: Mollohan (D)
WV-2: Staggers (D)
WV-3: Humphreys (D)
WV-4: Rahall (D)