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Post by manchesterman on Oct 22, 2020 23:33:29 GMT
I recently came across this site and I thought, with the US elections being imminent, I should let people on here know about it. [Apologies if it's already known to the forum]
I think it bears many similarities to our esteemed Mr Larkin's fabulous Boundary Assistant site. It allows you to select any state, then create discrete "seats" for want of a better term, which you can carve up either at County level or even at precinct level. You can then save your new maps and even share with the world if you wish to. There is also precinct -level data to help with your seat planning too. I thought it was a great find and I'm currently working on creating a 650-constituency model to mirror the UK seat numbers. You do have to register with an email to use it, but it is otherwise free (though you can donate if you choose to)
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Post by therealriga on Nov 2, 2020 22:05:35 GMT
I recently came across this site and I thought, with the US elections being imminent, I should let people on here know about it. [Apologies if it's already known to the forum]
I think it bears many similarities to our esteemed Mr Larkin's fabulous Boundary Assistant site. It allows you to select any state, then create discrete "seats" for want of a better term, which you can carve up either at County level or even at precinct level. You can then save your new maps and even share with the world if you wish to. There is also precinct -level data to help with your seat planning too. I thought it was a great find and I'm currently working on creating a 650-constituency model to mirror the UK seat numbers. You do have to register with an email to use it, but it is otherwise free (though you can donate if you choose to)
Used it a long time ago and started again recently. I always assumed that Boundary Assistant had been based on it. When using it recently I came across an oddity. I decided to have a go at gerrymandering a safe Republican seat in New Mexico. I linked up the good Republican area in the NW of the state with the Rep areas in the SE of the state, linking with a narrow corridor across the north. I got a seat that was 53-39 Republican. The rest seemed simple enough, the second district was the urban core around Albuquerque and the rest made up the third district. Easy peasy. But when I clicked on to analyze it said it didn't meet requirements. The blatant gerrymander was fine and not an issue. The problem was that "District 2 is embedded in another district." Huh? Why are doughnut style constituencies not allowed? Also, I guess that must be a new thing since Nevada's then two districts used to consist of "Las Vegas" and "Rest of Nevada." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_Congressional_Districts_in_Nevada,_1993_%E2%80%93_2002.tif |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 26, 2021 18:19:01 GMT
It's the key day today. At 8 PM UK time the US Census Bureau will announce the population figures from the 2020 Census which will determine the Congressional seat allocations (and also the Electoral College Vote numbers) for 2022 onwards.
It's forecast that Texas and Florida will be the big gainers, and Rhode Island will go down to a single 'At Large' seat which will be the largest. (Montana is on course to regain its second seat).
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 26, 2021 19:17:46 GMT
So it seems it's much less dramatic than forecast. Texas gains 2, Florida, Oregon, Colorado, Montana, and North Carolina gain one. Losing one seat each are California, Illiinois, Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New York.
Rhode Island keeps its two seats.
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Post by johnloony on Apr 26, 2021 19:56:24 GMT
So it seems it's much less dramatic than forecast. Texas gains 2, Florida, Oregon, Colorado, Montana, and North Carolina gain one. Losing one seat each are California, Illiinois, Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New York. Rhode Island keeps its two seats. Thusly the 2020 result would have been 303-235 instead of 306-232. |
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Post by tiberius on May 3, 2021 14:41:50 GMT
I have a total of 861 maps on this site.
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