Describe Your Congressional District

[Bojack Horseman]

Born: MI-5
Dan Kildee (D)
2016: Hillary 50-46
2012: Obama 61-38

[Lachi]

I'll do my electoral district once the Australian Census results from last year get released on Tuesday.

[Coolface Sock #42069]

Illinois 18 is one of the most conservative congressional districts in America.

Our former congressman, Aaron Schock, was indicted today and will, in my opinion, probably be going to jail, and deservedly so. He is everything people hate about politicians.

Anyway, the district itself is ultra conservative because of the German-American ethic of the rural areas east of the Illinois River and the wealthy suburban areas added in as a vote sink so Michael Madigan could try to squeeze a couple of Democratic districts out of downstate (one of which, the 13th, was a failure while Cheri Bustos has thus far been able to hold on in the 17th). It's also overwhelmingly white.

That's basically all you need to know.

[JA]

I figured I'd add some pictures from my Congressional District. Our most notable city is St. Augustine because of its historic beauty. Ponte Vedra Beach is the richest town here, I believe, and has tons of million dollar homes. We also have the World Golf Village, Sawgrass, lots of beaches, the country's oldest continuously inhabited city, and the suburban portion of Jacksonville. We're rapidly expanding with lots of planned communities and new roads being built daily. It's a typical sunbelt suburban area with lots of strip malls, subdivisions, and things like that. That's why my favorite place here is St. Augustine because the downtown area is very historic and well preserved.

This is what it looks like in historic/downtown St. Augustine


This is a good view of the St. Augustine "skyline"


This is what the average home looks like around here


Trees like these are a common sight lining the the older roads


The St. Johns River is pretty wide in this area where it reaches around 3 miles across

[The Govanah Jake]

NY-3
Rep: Tom Suozzi (2017-Present) who is a democrat
Previous Rep: Steve Israel (2013-2017) who is a democrat
2016 Result:Tom Suozzi (D) 52.4%, Jack Martins (R) 47.6%
2016 POTUS Result: Clinton 52% to Trumps 46%
Population: 724,164
Demographics: 74.7% White, 13.0% Asian, 9.2% Hispanic, 3.1% Black
Median Income: $95,699
College Degree: 50.8%
Major City's - Huntington, Glen Cove, Hicksville, Syosset
It is a Dem leaning swing district and in fact moved away from trump compared to Romney even though trump improved on Long Island as a whole

[Dr. MB]

OR-01
Rep: Suzanne Bonamici (2012–present), Democrat
Former Rep: David Wu (1999–2011), Democrat
2016 Result: 57% Clinton, Trump 40%
Demographics: 85% White, 9% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 1% Black
Median income: $48,464
Distribution: 87% urban, 13% rural
Major cities: Beaverton, Hillsboro, McMinnville, Portland (part), Tigard, Tualatin, Astoria

I think it's a bit gerrymandered since it should include Tillamook while the Multnomah part east of Forest Park should go to OR-03, but that's just my opinion.

[wxtransit]

Birth district and current home district: TX-03
PVI: R+13
Rep: Sam Johnson (Samuel Robert Johnson) (1991-present)
Previous Rep: Steve Bartlett (1983-1991)
2016 General Election: Sam Johnson (R) 61.2%; Adam Bell (R) 34.6%
2014 General Election: Sam Johnson (R) 82%; Paul Blair (Green) 18%
2016 POTUS: Donald Trump: 55%; Hillary Clinton: 41%
2012 POTUS: Mitt Romney: 63%; Barack Obama: 34%
Racial demographic: 61.4% white, 14.5% hispanic, 12.6% asian, 8.6% black, 2.8% mixed/other
Largest city: Plano (286,057 in 2016)
Major universities: Collin College, SMU-in-Plano, DBU North
The last Democrat to represent TX-03 in Congress was Joe Pool, who was highly influential in providing funding for the 7,740 acre-lake that now bears his name. It elected James Collins in a 1968 special election, and since it has been represented by Collins till 1983, Bartlett from 1983 to 1991, and Johnson till present day. Johnson is the sole Vietnam vet still in the US House of Representatives (he's 86, and he's announced his retirement).

TX-03 was one of the first areas in Texas to begin electing Republicans. The sprawl-y suburbs of Dallas were affluent, and saw little reason to not vote Republican. During this time, TX-03 was based in northern Dallas County. The meteoric growth of Collin County resulted in TX-03 moving more and more to the north, and losing more and more of its share of Dallas County. In 2013, it became entirely in Collin County. TX-03 is likely to shrink even more in 2020.

TX-03 is the home of many corporate headquarters and big corporate offices, like such as Alliance Data, Cinemark Theatres, Dell Services, Denbury Resources, Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Ericsson, Frito-Lay, HP Enterprise Services, J. C. Penney, Pizza Hut, Rent-A-Center, Siemens PLM Software, and Toyota Motors USA.

But not all of it is archetypical rich McMansion suburbia like this.

There are poor sections of the district. These are concentrated in places like Eastern Plano. However, the CD overall is your typical rich McMansion suburban district, and the poor parts are kind of irrelevant; median income is around $84,000.

Welp looks like you did most of the work for me, however, I was born in TX-03 when it still included Dallas County.

Also, a good portion of Plano and McKinney looks like this:


And this is a small subsection of East Plano, where the city hall is:

[Badger]

I'll describe both my current district and birth district as follows:

Gerrymandered as f%*k (Ohio and PA normal).