US House Redistricting: Iowa

[Nyvin]

Here's a IA-3 with a deviation of 7, lol.

I think the IA-4 in this map is near perfect.   IA-1 and IA-2 are both pretty boxy too.

I don't know if the deviation on 1 and 2 is too high though.



https://davesredistricting.org/join/a91c340d-5ea3-4a40-bd8b-c830f11874c2

I think this is what I'd probably draw though -



https://davesredistricting.org/join/c35f45e2-2a4a-47c6-8115-eb98389e0b1f

[Nyvin]

Here's a IA-3 with a deviation of 7, lol.

I think the IA-4 in this map is near perfect.   IA-1 and IA-2 are both pretty boxy too.

I don't know if the deviation on 1 and 2 is too high though.



https://davesredistricting.org/join/a91c340d-5ea3-4a40-bd8b-c830f11874c2

I think this is what I'd probably draw though -



https://davesredistricting.org/join/c35f45e2-2a4a-47c6-8115-eb98389e0b1f

I like it. I hadn't started playing with a split of Polk and Dallas. West Des Moines and Urbandale are large suburbs and substantially in both counties. The team that follows state law (avoid city splits) to draw the maps may not want to go in that direction.

What are the deviations for all the CDs on both plans?

Hmm...That's interesting about the Municipality splits.   Does this entail that Polk, Dallas, Warren, and Madison all end up in the same district?

First map deviations-
1
-1,900

2   
1,095

3   
 7

4   
799

Second Map-
1
196

2   
171

3   
344

4   
-710

[Nyvin]

I kinda think aiming for zero population deviation is a rather useless effort.   It doesn't actually change the district in any meaningful way to add/subtract a few hundred people.

But that aside,  here's what I came up with,  I don't know if the IA-1 district's eastern arm would work though.





https://davesredistricting.org/join/c35f45e2-2a4a-47c6-8115-eb98389e0b1f

IA-1 with deviation of 1 and IA-3 with deviation of 2 isn't all that bad, lol.

[Nyvin]

I tend to doubt that the Pubs will be willing to concede a rather safe seat for the Dems unless they have to. Does anyone disagree?

Iowa is probably not Republican enough for a 4-0 map to work. They will probably go for 1 Dem sink and 3 seats for themselves if they end up gerrymandering things.

If Polk and Dallas have to be kept together like Muon2 said then that district can't possibly get more than like Trump+2 at the very worst, and trending D at that.

[Nyvin]

Giving IA-1 Jackson county makes it compliant with population deviation, which is stupid obvious.   Wonder if that's a mistake on the map?

[Nyvin]

Miller-Meeks is going to be superbly pissed off if this map passes, lol

They're basically conceding IA-2 with this.

[Nyvin]

Reynolds signed the maps into law