US House Redistricting: West Virginia

[JohnnyLongtorso]

According to DRA, the current WV-02 is over by about 30,000 people, while WV-01 is under by 10,000 and WV-03 by 20,000. The problem, of course, is the whole-county thing, since most of WV-02 is only one county wide.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

Without looking at partisanship/incumbent locations, here's the map I came up with (no county splits, equal populations). blue district is -633, green is +164, purple is +468. Also tried to make the districts as compact as possible, given the state's odd shape.



It came out quite similarly to Vazdul's map.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

Doesn't really work; Charleston screws up the no-county-splits thing, since it's the biggest county and is in just the wrong spot.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

Interestingly, State Senate Majority Leader John Unger thinks they might have to split counties this time around, and also thinks that it won't violate the state constitution.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

Well, Arkansas' prohibition on county-splitting was based on tradition, not the state constitution.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

Looks like they may be putting Capito and McKinley together.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

Putting Putnam into WV-03 is dumb.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

The judges' order says that the constitution doesn't prohibit splitting counties. I can't copy-paste from it, but it's here, specifically pages 12 and 13. So they may require them to split counties to achieve perfect population equality.