Big Redistricting News Out Of PA!

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

CD 1: (-42) D+22
CD 2: (-497) D+39; BVAP 52.6%
CD 3: (+180) R+5
CD 4: (-1808) R+5
CD 5: (+1704) R+16
CD 6: (-691) R+0
CD 7: (-616) D+8
CD 8: (+1566) R+2
CD 9: (+1078) R+15
CD 10: (-1173) R+20
CD 11: (-491) R+2
CD 12: (+1919) R+8
CD 13: (-636) D+17
CD 14: (+921) D+12
CD 15: (-2359) R+7
CD 16: (+963) R+13
CD 17: (-1047) D+0
CD 18: (+1006) D+2

2, 1, 13, 14, 7, 18, 17, 6, 8, 11, 3, 4, 15, 12, 16, 9, 5, 10
<more dem...................more gop>
Median seats are 8 and 11, R+2, pretty much in line with the state at large.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Muon2’s map is drawn to minimize county chops, but must have been crafted before his rules included pack (fewer CD’s located wholly within the boundaries of a metro area than the maximum possible) and cover (more CD’s wholly or partially located within the boundaries of a metro area than the minimum possible) penalties with respect to multi-county metro areas (as defined by the US census, except that more rural counties included therein are excised per an algorithm fashioned by the most indefatigable and creative Jimrtex).    

His map as compared to my cover and pack penalty free effort below (the multi county metro areas as defined by Jimrtex are outlined out on my map) has cover and pack penalties for the Philly and Allentown metro areas (with the ones for Allentown easily avoided by chopping into Carbon rather than Lehigh County), and a cover penalty for the Pittsburg metro area.  By tri-chopping Alleghany County, he also generates an extra macro chop, which may or may not generate more erosity penalty points in that county than my map does).  Given his monomaniacal focus on minimizing county chops, he does however have one fewer county chop than the map below. ☺

The BVAP for PA-02 is 48.4% by the way in the map below.  It also contains no municipality chops (or ward chops in Philly), other than the one that is unavoidable (i.e. Philadelphia, which really does not count since its lines are co-terminous with the county lines).

Just gotta say I love how clean this map is.
How did these seats vote?