Most Democrat Possible District by State

[ElectionsGuy]

I'll start off with Wisconsin, in which I combine the most democratic parts of Milwaukee with Madison...



Unfortunately, I knew I would have to go through at least a little of Waukesha County in order to get there. District is 80.4% Obama, rest of state went 53.0% Obama.

[they don't love you like i love you]

79% Obama

[old timey villain]

Do you mean liberal as in ideology or liberal as in support for Democrats? Not all Democrats are liberals. I could probably create an +80% Obama district out of south Atlanta and some surrounding suburbs because of the high percentage of African Americans but a +65% Obama district based in midtown Atlanta, Decatur, Druid Hills and gentrified areas of the city would still probably be more liberal.

[Miles]

The current NC-12 sets a pretty high bar at 78%. I drew a district based around the Carolina Corridor and got it up to 81.5%.

[ilikeverin]

79% Obama

Ooh, how does that purple district vote?

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Played with Philly, connected all the overwhelmingly black areas. I had about 100,000 people left to stuff in before the thing stopped responding, but I was at exactly 97% Obama (would have dropped slightly under that, since everything left in Philly was at most high 80's-low 90's for Obama).

[ElectionsGuy]

Do you mean liberal as in ideology or liberal as in support for Democrats? Not all Democrats are liberals. I could probably create an +80% Obama district out of south Atlanta and some surrounding suburbs because of the high percentage of African Americans but a +65% Obama district based in midtown Atlanta, Decatur, Druid Hills and gentrified areas of the city would still probably be more liberal.

In support for democrats.

[muon2]

If you use Obama '08 you can break 98% staying entirely within Chicago. The hometown effect was BIG. Going just a little to the south I was able to reach 99% Obama for a CD sized for 2010. One can go higher using 2000-sized IL CDs. Even so, the rest of the state was still 59.2% Obama.

[Adam Griffin]

95.6% Obama
91.5% Dem
84.6% Black VAP

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I played around and got an ungainly mess of a South Carolina district that was 79% Obama and 77% Democrat.  However, paint splatters would look like masterpieces of realistic painting in comparison to what I had, so I refuse to post it.  I could even do a little better if I didn't have to worry about cutting the state into pieces that you couldn't make 6 contiguous districts out of the remainder.

[morgieb]

95.6% Obama
91.5% Dem
84.6% Black VAP

Wow. It's not like it's even that messy either.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

I've been trying to do something like this for Kentucky, while including my own precinct in it, and I've managed to cobble up a pretty big area that Obama won handily. It stretches from Dayton, down the Ohio River to Louisville, and then east to Lexington. In the process, I managed to avoid downtown Frankfort (despite its Democratic leanings).

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

60-37 Obama

Rest of the state goes 65-31 McCain

[ElectionsGuy]

52.6% Obama. Rest of state went 69.6% McCain.  Its hard enough making an Obama district in Oklahoma alone, but yet making the most.

[Adam Griffin]

Wow. It's not like it's even that messy either.

Yeah, that's what makes Georgia's voting habits not as bad as Alabama's. It's really amazing to see the extent of dominant Democratic areas in the sprawl of metro Atlanta. There's still enough in the immediate area to make a 77% Obama precinct as well (green). The pink one was an off-topic creation; basically, an attempt at a district that will become Latino-plurality by 2020.

[Adam Griffin]

This one could be a bit more Democratic (~53% Obama), but I opted to minimize a bit of the ridiculous gerrymandering. And yep, remaining area is contiguous.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Colorado



79-20 Obama

Rest of the state becomes nailbitingly close at 49.7-48.6 Obama.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

75-23 Obama

Rest of the state flips 51-48 McCain

[politicallefty]

I'm not sure if this is the most Democratic district in California as I didn't play around with Los Angeles County, but it has to be roughly the most Democratic in Northern California and among the most liberal in the country. It takes in all of Berkeley, most of Oakland, and a some of the most Democratic precincts in Contra Costa County. I used the Bay Bridge to get the most Democratic parts of San Francisco. It'd look somewhat better were it not for the ugly water precincts. I tried, but narrowly failed to get Obama to 95% (and I made a point of avoiding <90% Obama precincts).

Obama 94.5%
Brown 92.5%

VAP:
White 40.7%
Black 19.1%
Hispanic 20.6%
Asian 15.8%

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

81-18 Obama

Rest of the state goes 67-32 McCain.  Very likely Romney would have hit >70% with these lines, even though the state as a whole swung toward Obama in 2012.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Here's a Georgia map that doesn't cut into Atlanta:



70-29 Obama

Rest of the state: 54-45 McCain

[they don't love you like i love you]

79% Obama

Ooh, how does that purple district vote?

About 57% Obama. 54% D average. I'm guessing around 54% Obama 2012 then since that tends to be close to the D average. The red district is around 53% Obama/D average. Romney probably did a bit better than 47% there but still lost it.

[traininthedistance]

NJ.



92.8% Obama, 89.8% Dem.  52 percent black.  Rest of state is 54.9% O, 52.9% D.

There are certainly some errors, because of districts with missing votes in this area.  All of the Ironbound and downtown Jersey City is missing, and I avoided those areas (even though maybe they would belong).  Some voteless precincts are included, though.

Basically everything except the connectors through the Meadowlands is 83 percent Obama and up.

[Хahar 🤔]

Two Maryland districts:



The northern district takes in most of Baltimore and parts of Baltimore County. 69.7% black, 90.0% Obama. The southern district includes most of Prince George's County (the most significant area being excluded, interestingly, is the university, which votes more Republican than the rest of the county), along with Takoma Park and downtown Silver Spring. 67.8% black, 93.2% Obama. The rest of the state is 67.6% white and 53.0% Obama, 45.5% McCain.

[ElectionsGuy]

70.8% Obama in Nevada. The rest of the state still goes 52-46 Obama.