Talk Elections

In the bigger cities, I was wondering if I could find out what the congressional district boundaries were at a street or precinct level basis. Some districts I would be interested in seeing would be the 1983-1993 version of TX 3 (Dallas and Collin), TX 5 (east Dallas), TX 24 (Dallas, Fort Worth and areas in between), TX 7 (west Houston), TX 18 (inner city Houston), and TX 20 (inner city Santonio)

Are you looking for historical data only or also current information?

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/findyourreps.xpd is great for the current districts, but you may already know that...

Have you tried Dave Bradlee's redistricting utility (http://gardow.com/davebradlee/redistricting/davesredistricting2.0.aspx)?  It will give you exactly what you want.

Oh, you apparently want maps from previously census periods I see in the 1980's and 1990's. I would not know about that.

Fortunately for redistricting buffs, Texas has a good archive of previous districts, all the way back to 1846.

http://www.tlc.state.tx.us/redist/history_maps.html

I remember hearing that in the early 90s, Martin Frost did exactly what DeLay did only parties reversed: convince the legislature (which was then 60% dem) to draw the map to favor democrats. Difference was was that it was when you were supposed to redraw it and not mid-decade like DeLay.