Most Conservative Possible District by State

[Brittain33]

I'm surprised Ocean and Monmouth County didn't provide more fertile soil.

[traininthedistance]

I'm surprised Ocean and Monmouth County didn't provide more fertile soil.

There's more northwest than there is Ocean/Monmouth, basically, which allows you a couple percentage points of leeway when hunting for the best precincts.

Now, if you really wanna get crazy with the cheez whiz...



36.4% Obama, 35.0% Dem, with the caveat that the numbers are almost certainly not right in Lakewood Township.

All other districts were won by Obama and have a Dem average (generally not by that much though); 10 remains AA-maj and 12 Hispanic-plurality; no towns were split except between 10/12 and, well, what was necessary to make this insane-o-mander.

[ElectionsGuy]

Wisconsin:



District went 62.7% McCain. Rest of state went 59.5% Obama.

[nclib]

Did anyone try Texas? That has got to be the most Repub CD possible anywhere.

[muon2]

NE-3 in 2008 was over 68% from the EC, and was the most GOP jurisdiction there.

A look at the Atlas data shows that AL-4 was 76.21% McCain.
Edit: and by modifying AL-4 it I can get over 80% using 8 whole and 5 partial counties, and leaving room for AL-5 to the north.

[muon2]

Here's a fun one from TX. The blue CD is 82.1% McCain and only chops 3 counties. It completely surrounds a whole CD that is 69.8% McCain with only one county chop. Both CDs are within 300 of the quota as drawn.

[jimrtex]

Here's a fun one from TX. The blue CD is 82.1% McCain and only chops 3 counties. It completely surrounds a whole CD that is 69.8% McCain with only one county chop. Both CDs are within 300 of the quota as drawn.

You sliced Amarillo in half.

[muon2]

Here's a fun one from TX. The blue CD is 82.1% McCain and only chops 3 counties. It completely surrounds a whole CD that is 69.8% McCain with only one county chop. Both CDs are within 300 of the quota as drawn.

You sliced Amarillo in half.

Yes, but I followed the county line. In general I treat counties as superior to cities for the purposes of chops. Of course this was a very synthetic district, and Randall county was over 80% for McCain, while Potter was under 70%.

[jimrtex]

Here's a fun one from TX. The blue CD is 82.1% McCain and only chops 3 counties. It completely surrounds a whole CD that is 69.8% McCain with only one county chop. Both CDs are within 300 of the quota as drawn.

You sliced Amarillo in half.

Yes, but I followed the county line. In general I treat counties as superior to cities for the purposes of chops. Of course this was a very synthetic district, and Randall county was over 80% for McCain, while Potter was under 70%.

In the 1992 Democratic Richards-Frost gerrymander, they split every large county in west Texas (Lubbock, Tom Green, Taylor, Midland, and Ector. They didn't split Potter and Randall, but did put them in different districts.

[Torie]

I actually like the idea of suburban CD's surrounding inner city ones, say Marion County, Indiana, but of course not for rural CD's.