New Jersey on UK-Sized Constituencies

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

(And as far as Union County goes, I'd expect Westfield/NP to lean Republican, Roselle/Cranford to be competitive but Democratic, and Summit/Millburn to be in the Democratic column come 2007.  All the rest are largely safe Democrat, with the incompatible town of Plainfield totally overwhelming nominally Republican Scotch Plains.  (Just like they're currently overwhelmed in the 22nd right now!)

[Verily]

Here's Somerset County. The name "Somerset South West" is feeble but the best I could create.

This one is difficult for political leanings. Somerset South West is clearly heavily Republican, but all the other districts contain Democratic and Republican areas. My guess is that Somerville is somewhat safe for the Democrats, North Plainfield and Far Hills is somewhat safe for the Republicans, and Bound Brook and Somerset is a complete toss-up.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Here's Somerset County:

All but Bound Brook/Somerset (which leans Democratic) are Republican.  Somerville would probably be somewhat competitive, but still GOP.

[Alcon]

I thought I'd pointlessly mention that I tried this with Washington once and got up to like district 32 before I wanted to shoot myself and take Chelan County with me.  Doing it by precincts instead of towns made for some freaky damn districts.

Good job.  Cool stuff.

[Verily]

Here's Somerset County:

All but Bound Brook/Somerset (which leans Democratic) are Republican.  Somerville would probably be somewhat competitive, but still GOP.

I'm going to have to disagree with you on this one. Somerset County as a whole is about R+1. The Somerset South West district is easily R+10, which means the rest of the county leans marginally Democratic. Of course, some of that is concentrated in Bound Brook and Somerset, which is about D+3 (you're right, I was underestimating the size of Somerset itself), but Somerville should also be about D+3 with the Democratic-leaning Somerville, Raritan and Manville balancing out the GOP-leaning Bridgewater. North Plainfield and Far Hills contains Democratic areas in the east but is probably around R+5 overall. The Somerset areas of Morristown and Bernardsville should be around R+3; Bernardsville is marginal, but the Bernards Twp areas are Republican.

[Verily]

Middlesex County:

[Verily]

Not the most exciting county, but here's Sussex. Both districts are obviously Republican, Andover and Hopatcong somewhat less so than North Sussex but still quite safe.

[Verily]

More small counties; Warren and Hunterdon.

[Hatman 🍁]

I thought I'd pointlessly mention that I tried this with Washington once and got up to like district 32 before I wanted to shoot myself and take Chelan County with me.  Doing it by precincts instead of towns made for some freaky damn districts.

Good job.  Cool stuff.

maps plz

[Verily]

Mercer County.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Here's Somerset County:

All but Bound Brook/Somerset (which leans Democratic) are Republican.  Somerville would probably be somewhat competitive, but still GOP.

I'm going to have to disagree with you on this one. Somerset County as a whole is about R+1. The Somerset South West district is easily R+10, which means the rest of the county leans marginally Democratic. Of course, some of that is concentrated in Bound Brook and Somerset, which is about D+3 (you're right, I was underestimating the size of Somerset itself), but Somerville should also be about D+3 with the Democratic-leaning Somerville, Raritan and Manville balancing out the GOP-leaning Bridgewater. North Plainfield and Far Hills contains Democratic areas in the east but is probably around R+5 overall. The Somerset areas of Morristown and Bernardsville should be around R+3; Bernardsville is marginal, but the Bernards Twp areas are Republican.

On a whole though, where it counts, those marginal places still elect Republicans on the local level.

If Somerville has a Republican mayor, I'd guess Somerville would have a Republican MP.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Obviously, in Mercer, all but Hamilton would be Democratic.  The Republican-leaning towns on the Hunterdon border would be totally overwhelmed by the Princeton slug of super Dems.

[Verily]

Obviously, in Mercer, all but Hamilton would be Democratic.  The Republican-leaning towns on the Hunterdon border would be totally overwhelmed by the Princeton slug of super Dems.

Well, there are hardly any people in those towns, so one would expect them to be overwhelmed. The real choice was whether to overwhelm them with Princeton or Ewing.

I wonder why you think Trenton Gardens and Hamilton, and not Hightstown, would be the vulnerable district.

[Alcon]

I thought I'd pointlessly mention that I tried this with Washington once and got up to like district 32 before I wanted to shoot myself and take Chelan County with me.  Doing it by precincts instead of towns made for some freaky damn districts.

Good job.  Cool stuff.

maps plz

Can't.  No standardized map format since the 2000 Census release.  I could only do a half-assed overlay with pretty guesstimated lines.  Much of it I did by memory, and I'd have to get the maps out again.

Sorry, as fun as it'd be. 

[Verily]

Monmouth County. The shore counties were all stupidly difficult because of the tiny hamlets on the coast and enormous townships inland.

[DownWithTheLeft]

With the election of Mayors Hipp, Cassella, Heck and Roseman by commanding margins, as well as the election of two Republicans in North Arlington, I think the Meadowlands district moves Leans/Safe Republican