Iowa Consolidation to 4 Districts

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The average population deviation for the districts in that map is nearly 10,000.  That is way too much in my opinion.

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I like to go by a rule of thumb that deviations over 1000 are unacceptable.  This map fails to accomplish such.

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I have a novice question for JimTrex or anyone willing to answer. If another state was to take up Iowa's method, but a single county had significantly more population that a single Congressional district -- let's say Illinois' Cook County for simplicity's sake -- what would happen?

It would be declared unconstitutional.  Only states that have enough counties that none are that large are allowed to use this method.

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How does this map compare?

That is quite nice, but just how does the Des Moines based CD add three more counties to what Jimrtex had without having too many people?

probably using different population totals.