Naming American Constituencies

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I hate districts with names of people. I don't know why it has become so popular in Quebec.

Anyways, I remember doing this when I first joined the Atlas. It certainly had its moments.

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Don't they sometimes, especially in Australia, name them after famous residents of the constituency/near-by area?

In the US, that would probably result in them being named for their current congresspeople...

(Quebec also does that sometimes, both federally and provincially. It's also worth pointing out that the em-dash is Canadian style; in Britain, they would use "and" instead.)

Yes (federally, state-wise they're all named after locations) - we name some after geographic locations and some after famous people.

http://www.aec.gov.au/Electorates/Electoral_DPM/Guideline.htm
http://www.aec.gov.au/Electorates/Electoral_DPM/Origin_Current_Division.htm
http://www.aec.gov.au/Electorates/Electoral_DPM/Origin_Abolished_Division.htm

The famous people have to be dead in order to qualify. Sometimes they're named after an explorer through the area (eg. Leichardt, Bass, Cunningham), social workers (eg. Chisholm), Prime Ministers (very common), other famous politicians such as Premiers or Leaders of the Opposition, even poets (see the proposed new Queensland electorate announced today in a disgusting gerrymander of Wright, named after poet Judith Wright).

Disgusting

Another cool project would be giving names to the Australian divisions.

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Many of the names presented are fail. muon seems to understand how this works, though.

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Many of the names presented are fail. muon seems to understand how this works, though.

Do I?

Somewhat, although one should never use a direction before a name, unless that is a common name for the area. In Canada, only one riding starts with a direction (South Surrey). They rest end in a direction. Otherwise, they're decent names. Love the emdashes!

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"outer" and "inner" should never be used in constituency names. I don't think they do that in the UK, do they?

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Massachusetts

MA1 - Massachusetts West-Montachusett
MA2 - Springfield-Northampton-South County-Blackstone Valley
MA3 - Worcester-Middlesex-Norfolk-Bristol
MA4 - South Coast-Boston Southwest
MA5 - Merrimack Valley
MA6 - North Shore
MA7 - Boston North-Framingham
MA8 - Boston-Chelsea-Middlesex
MA 9 - Boston South
MA10 - South Shore-Cape Cod-The Islands

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CT 1 - Hartford-Litchfield Hills
CT 2 - Connecticut East
CT 3 - Connecticut South Central
CT 4 - Connecticut Panhandle
CT 5 - Connecticut Northwest

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PA 1 - South Philadelphia-Delaware
PA 2 - West Philadelphia-Cheltenham
PA 3 - Pennsylvania Northwest
PA 4 - Lawrence-Mercer-Pittsburgh North
PA 5 - Pennsylvania North Central
PA 6 - Montgomery-Chester-Berks-Lehigh
PA 7 - Delaware-Chester-Montgomery
PA 8 - Bucks-Montgomery-Philadelphia
PA 9 - Pennsylvania South Central
PA 10 - Pennsylvania North East
PA 11 - Coal Region-Monroe
PA 12 - Pennsylvania Southwest
PA 13 - Montgomery-Philadelphia
PA 14 - Pittsburgh
PA 15 - Lehigh Valley-Montgomery
PA 16 - Lancaster-Chester-Berks
PA 17 - Dutch Country-Schuykill
PA 18 - Washington-Allegheny-Westmoreland
PA 19 - York-Adams-Cumberland

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NY 1 - Suffolk East
NY 2 - Suffolk West-Plainview
NY 3 - Nassau East-South Shore
NY 4 - Nassau South
NY 5 - North Shore Long Island
NY 6 - Queens Southeast
NY 7 - Queens-Bronx
NY 8 - West Side-Brooklyn
NY 9 - Brooklyn-Queens
NY 10 - Brooklyn Northeast
NY 11 - Brooklyn Center
NY 12 - Brooklyn-Queens-Lower East Side
NY 13 - Staten Island-Brooklyn
NY 14 - East Side-Queens
NY 15 - Upper Manhattan-Queens
NY 16 - Bronx West
NY 17 - Rockland-Westchester-Bronx
NY 18 - Westchester-Rockland
NY 19 - Lower Hudson Valley
NY 20 - Upper Hudson Valley-Catskills
NY 21 - Capital District
NY 22 - Catskills-Finger Lakes
NY 23 - Adirondacks-Seaway
NY 24 - New York Central
NY 25 - Syracuse-Lake Ontario
NY 26 - New York West
NY 27 - Erie-Chautauqua
NY 28 - Buffalo-Niagara-Lake Ontario-Rochester
NY 29 - Southern Tier-Finger Lakes

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PA 1 - South Philadelphia-Delaware
PA 2 - West Philadelphia-Cheltenham
PA 3 - Pennsylvania Northwest
PA 4 - Lawrence-Mercer-Pittsburgh North
PA 5 - Pennsylvania North Central
PA 6 - Montgomery-Chester-Berks-Lehigh
PA 7 - Delaware-Chester-Montgomery
PA 8 - Bucks-Montgomery-Philadelphia
PA 9 - Pennsylvania South Central
PA 10 - Pennsylvania North East
PA 11 - Coal Region-Monroe
PA 12 - Pennsylvania Southwest
PA 13 - Montgomery-Philadelphia
PA 14 - Pittsburgh
PA 15 - Lehigh Valley-Montgomery
PA 16 - Lancaster-Chester-Berks
PA 17 - Dutch Country-Schuykill
PA 18 - Washington-Allegheny-Westmoreland
PA 19 - York-Adams-Cumberland

PA 17 is not really Dutch Country, but it has some elements.  The heart of Dutch Country is in PA 16.  PA 17 could be called "Capital Region-Berks-Schuykill"

That might work. I was going by Wikipedia's definition of regions, since that's all I have to base some of these places.

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NJ 1 - Camden-Gloucester-Burlington
NJ 2 - South Jersey
NJ 3 - Burlington-Ocean-Cherry Hill
NJ 4 - Burlington-Monmouth-Mercer-Ocean
NJ 5 - Bergen-Passaic-Sussex-Warren
NJ 6 - Monmouth-Sussex-Franklin-Plainfield
NJ 7 - Hunterdon-Middlesex-Somerset-Union
NJ 8 - Essex-Passaic
NJ 9 - Bergen-Hudson-Hawthorne
NJ 10 - Essex-Hudson-Union
NJ 11 - Skylands
NJ 12 - Central Jersey
NJ 13 - Hudson-Middlesex-Essex-Newark

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MD 1 - Eastern Shore-Anne Arundel-Baltimore-Harford
MD 2 - Baltimore-Chesapeake
MD 3 - Baltimore-Anne Arundel-Harford
MD 4 - Prince George's-Montgomery
MD 5 - Maryland South-Capital
MD 6 - Maryland West
MD 7 - Baltimore-Howard
MD 8 - Capital North

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Here's my (probably mediocre) shot at Texas. Is there a certain order the locations are supposed to go in in a constituency name? From biggest to smallest or from west to east or something?

I think it's usually bigger to smaller, but I'm not 100% sure to be honest (for Canada, anyways). Sometimes it's in geographical order as well (Glengarry-Prescott-Russell comes to mind).

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VA 1 - Chesepeake
VA 2 - Peninsula-Hampton Roads-Virginia Beach
VA 3 - James River
VA 4 - Virginia Southeast
VA 5 - Virginia South Central
VA 6 - Roanoke-Lynchburg-Shenandoah
VA 7 - Richmond-Appalachia
VA 8 - Arlington-Fairfax-Alexandria-Falls Church
VA 9 - Virginia Southwest
VA 10 - Virginia North
VA 11 - Fairfax-Prince William

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NJ 1 - Camden-Gloucester-Burlington
NJ 2 - South Jersey
NJ 3 - Burlington-Ocean-Cherry Hill
NJ 4 - Burlington-Monmouth-Mercer-Ocean
NJ 5 - Bergen-Passaic-Sussex-Warren
NJ 6 - Monmouth-Sussex-Franklin-Plainfield
NJ 7 - Hunterdon-Middlesex-Somerset-Union
NJ 8 - Essex-Passaic
NJ 9 - Bergen-Hudson-Hawthorne
NJ 10 - Essex-Hudson-Union
NJ 11 - Skylands
NJ 12 - Central Jersey
NJ 13 - Hudson-Middlesex-Essex-Newark

Skylands is kind of a stretch to call the Morris County based 11, but I like these.  What do you think of the ones I did?  I'll admit I don't know much about this.

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Not too bad actually, but I'm not a fan of using singular names for regions that encompass a greater area. And also, directionals should not precede the district name (South Jersey being an exception).