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Title: 1,000 congressional districts Post by: Snowstalker Mk. II on January 19, 2013, 04:41:52 PM How would they be allocated by state?
Title: Re: 1,000 congressional districts Post by: Fritz on January 19, 2013, 04:59:27 PM Well, 435 x 2 = 970, pretty close to 1000....so double everything, then you just have 30 more seats to figure out.
Edit: oops that's 870 Title: Re: 1,000 congressional districts Post by: Miles on January 19, 2013, 05:55:32 PM Something like this:
() Title: Re: 1,000 congressional districts Post by: True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자) on January 19, 2013, 06:29:31 PM Actually it would be exactly this, with DC getting 4 EV's (Green indicates where I have a state getting one more rep than Miles did. These are mostly the states that have enough representatives that they have an average population per district below than the national average, but not all of them. I think Miles likely used total population for each state rather than the apportionment population, and then did a division and rounded down.
BTW, Georgia got the 1000th seat, with Ohio in line to get the 1001th seat. Alabama 16 Alaska 2 Arizona 21 Arkansas 9 California 121 Colorado 16 Connecticut 12 Delaware 3 Florida 61 Georgia 32 Hawaii 4 Idaho 5 Illinois 42 Indiana 21 Iowa 10 Kansas 9 Kentucky 14 Louisiana 15 Maine 4 Maryland 19 Massachusetts 21 Michigan 32 Minnesota 17 Mississippi 10 Missouri 19 Montana 3 Nebraska 6 Nevada 9 New Hampshire 4 New Jersey 29 New Mexico 7 New York 63 North Carolina 31 North Dakota 2 Ohio 37 Oklahoma 12 Oregon 12 Pennsylvania 41 Rhode Island 3 South Carolina 15 South Dakota 3 Tennessee 21 Texas 82 Utah 9 Vermont 2 Virginia 26 Washington 22 West Virginia 6 Wisconsin 18 Wyoming 2 TOTAL 1000 Title: Re: 1,000 congressional districts Post by: Padfoot on January 19, 2013, 09:01:33 PM This is actually a pretty fair representation of each state's population. If you multiply the state's percentage of the US population by 10 it comes out as roughly equal to the above numbers.
Although many people think a Congress so large would be too unwieldy, I think that smaller Congressional districts would decrease the amount of money needed to campaign and in turn allow for representatives to be more in tune with the actual voters rather than the lobbyists. Title: Re: 1,000 congressional districts Post by: Miles on January 20, 2013, 12:02:02 PM I think Miles likely used total population for each state rather than the apportionment population, and then did a division and rounded down. Yeah, I tried; I figured someone else would put something more accurate out though. This would be a good topic for a series. Title: Re: 1,000 congressional districts Post by: JerryArkansas on January 20, 2013, 01:34:12 PM if you guys do make this into a series, I have the state of Arkansas done. just ask me for the map.
Title: Re: 1,000 congressional districts Post by: True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자) on January 20, 2013, 02:58:23 PM Incidentally, it takes until there are 772 seats for every state to have 2 seats.
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