Personal Map Project: 30,000 People per district

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    • GodoftheTranses

    Heres my first state, Rhode Island, with 36 districts.

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    • Gian

    Gian

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    I could probably make districts for Maryland (and maybe Wyoming and the smaller states as well).
     
    Terranoso

    Terranoso

    Very curious to see how you tackle big cities. You may have to look down at street-to-street level division to make districts work.

    As to the partisan breakdown, I imagine that it would trend toward a more reflective value of the national party vote. You won't have districts that crack Democratic areas like in Pennsylvania, and you won't have Republican areas of western Maryland swamped by eastern Maryland.
     

    Temeraire

    Terranoso said:
    Very curious to see how you tackle big cities. You may have to look down at street-to-street level division to make districts work.

    As to the partisan breakdown, I imagine that it would trend toward a more reflective value of the national party vote. You won't have districts that crack Democratic areas like in Pennsylvania, and you won't have Republican areas of western Maryland swamped by eastern Maryland.
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    Possibly. The thing is that you'll likely have ridiculously-Democratic and ridiculously-Republican districts, with DC-level vote splits. I am curious as to whether any third parties would win using old data; did any third-party candidates win precincts this year?

    In addition, my guess is that each district probably has about 10 000 votes in a Presidential year, although I'm not sure if this would increase or decrease partisanship. At the national level, the whips are basically the only people who will matter in the house, although getting ten thousand people to agree on anything will be very, very difficult.
     
    Terranoso

    Terranoso

    Temeraire said:
    Possibly. The thing is that you'll likely have ridiculously-Democratic and ridiculously-Republican districts, with DC-level vote splits. I am curious as to whether any third parties would win using old data; did any third-party candidates win precincts this year?
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    On a presidential level, I'm fairly certain that McMullin won at least one precinct in Utah, but I don't think it would be enough to win a congressional seat in a 30,000 person district out there.
     

    Temeraire

    Alex Richards said:
    I suspect in this sort of a scenario the Electoral College gets replaced with directly electing the President anyway.
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    Alternatively, have each state allocate EVs using districts; there's so many that I think it would be hard to gerrymander, and it creates an interesting pseudo-parliamentary system.
     
    Gentleman Biaggi

    Gentleman Biaggi

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    Terranoso said:
    On a presidential level, I'm fairly certain that McMullin won at least one precinct in Utah, but I don't think it would be enough to win a congressional seat in a 30,000 person district out there.
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    He didn't. He managed to get second place in a few counties, but never won a county
     
    Jonathan

    Jonathan

    Would legitislation not change over time, when population increases, transportation is faster and technology improves.

    With a population of 326,766,748, your looking at a house of representatives with nearly 11,000 members, rather than the current 435.
     

    Caprice

    Jonathan said:
    Would legitislation not change over time, when population increases, transportation is faster and technology improves.

    With a population of 326,766,748, your looking at a house of representatives with nearly 11,000 members, rather than the current 435.
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    Probably, but the question is what it'd look like if it hadn't changed.
     
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