House Redistricting Co-op

[ElectionsGuy]

Me and Flo decided to make another redistricting thread with the current districts. I'm going to try and redistrict them in the nicest and fairest way possible. I guess I'll start with Idaho, the smallest state I'm going to do, and will work up to larger population states. Nothing too much to see, its very similar to the current districts.



District 1 (blue) is 60.5% McCain, District 2 (green) is 62.5% McCain. The only county that is split is Ada.



I got most of the city of Boise in the blue districts, with all the suburbs remaining in green.

As default, WY, MT, ND, SD, and AK have republican reps, and VT and DE have democratic reps. Idaho now has 2 Safe R districts, making the total 7 R's to 2 D's.

[ElectionsGuy]

Help me out here. What do you mean by nice? Can you define it geographically or numerically? If not, why would an independent commission accept your submission?

By nice I mean mostly whole counties, not reaching into areas that are far away, and keeping a community that relates to each other (ID-1 could be Mormons, for example). Numerically I don't know how I would explain it. I suppose an example of something being not nice would look like this:

[ElectionsGuy]

Help me out here. What do you mean by nice? Can you define it geographically or numerically? If not, why would an independent commission accept your submission?

By nice I mean mostly whole counties, not reaching into areas that are far away, and keeping a community that relates to each other (ID-1 could be Mormons, for example). Numerically I don't know how I would explain it. I suppose an example of something being not nice would look like this:

I ask since you split Boise from Nampa, but not on the county line. I stickied the UCC definitions so mappers could see which counties were metro areas that one should preserve. By the way would this count as "nice"? There are no split counties, Boise and Nampa are kept together, and the deviation is only 146 from the quota.

Certainly, should an Idaho map that contains both Canyon and Ada counties in one district be used for the thread? My only concern is having North Idaho and SE Idaho in one district.

[ElectionsGuy]

Nebraska:





NE-1: 50.4% O, 48.3% M. 55.1/44.9 R/D. Lean R
NE-2: 52.8% M, 45.6% O. 59.3/40.7 R/D. Likely R
NE-3: 69.1% M, 29.2% O. 67.9/32.1 R/D. Safe R

[ElectionsGuy]

New Mexico:





NM-1: 53.0% M, 45.6% O. 55.9/44.1 R/D. Likely R
NM-2: 60.0% O, 38.7% M. 54.2/45.8 D/R. Safe D
NM-3: 63.3% O, 35.5% M. 59.2/40.8 D/R. Safe D

[ElectionsGuy]

Nevada:





NV-1: 49.4% O, 48.2% M. 54.8/45.2 R/D. Lean R
NV-2: 69.0% O, 28.9% M. 68.6/31.4 D/R. Safe D
NV-3: 60.4% O, 37.5% M. 57.7/42.3 D/R. Safe D
NV-4: 49.4% M, 48.4% O. 53.8/46.2 R/D. Lean R

Is this one drawn a bit in favor of republicans? I kind of feel like it is.

[ElectionsGuy]

Utah:





UT-1: 55.3% O, 41.8% M. Toss-Up
UT-2: 68.9% M, 28.1% O. Safe R
UT-3: 68.4% M, 28.6% O. Safe R
UT-4: 71.6% M, 25.1% O. Safe R

Under this scenario, Utah has a competitive district. It might actually Lean D, perfect for a Matheson candidate. Of course this comes at the expense of the other districts being beyond safe for any republican.

Not very much. When I drew a plan that split no counties except Clark and no cities within Clark I had the following Obama 08 numbers: 65.9, 50.0, 50.6, 57.6. It seems like the Reno CD and the Henderson/non-Clark CD will tend to be even to lean R districts.

Alright, that's good. I notice that no matter how you draw Nevada, there's going to be at least two semi-competitive districts.

[ElectionsGuy]

Kansas:



KS-1: 49.8% M, 48.9% O. Lean R
KS-2: 57.5% M, 40.6% O. Safe R
KS-3: 52.3% M, 45.7% O. Likely R
KS-4: 68.7% M, 29.5% O. Safe R

If anybody wants this zoomed up in a particular place, I can do that.