Most contiguous complete counties in a Congressional District

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

This is the maximum number of counties you can get in a no-county-split congressional district in Colorado (I think). This seat is 42.8% Obama, 55.4% McCain; 40.1% Dem, 59.9% Rep. Deviation is +2,925.
Biggest cities in the district are Grand Junction, 58,566: Durango, 16,887: and Sterling, 14,777.
All population counts are as of the 2010 census.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

21 counties in each.
Green: R+14
Black: R+5

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

17 full counties.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

4 full counties.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

17 full counties.

The complete counties aren't contiguous here. In general the idea is to avoid any chopped counties.

I find that you can do 17 whole counties with nothing extra in one SC CD. Use all of Lancaster, Kershaw and Lee.  Drop Sumter, and from Marion just connect to Williamsburg, Clarendon and Calhoun.

Is it fine as long as the whole counties are contigous to each other? If, say, you took out all of the non-whole county parts it would still be a contigous district?