2020 Census and Redistricting Thread: New Jersey

[SevenEleven]

Fair Map^TM

[SevenEleven]

Not sure what I'd call this map, I suppose it is a fair map in the lfromnj sense of the word?
The main thrust of it is county integrity I guess.
I have two compact performing majority-minority seats, and one white plurality seat. I created a whole Northern Jersey CD formed of Sussex, Warren, and Morris counties.
I really like my 9th. Combined with the 8th (which only takes Elizabeth to keep performing, and is otherwise contained with Essex and Hudson) and the 10th (similarly contained within those two counties), and the fact that Morris, Sussex, and Warren together form a whole count CD, I think the overall result is quite nice.
https://davesredistricting.org/join/0e8b0804-fadc-4670-8233-bc0d21682e25

I don't think this is fair given Western Essex was linked to Middlesex, west Essex clearly belongs with Morris, I think Union+taking more of Middlesex in from 12 could work, but the current 6th does feel somewhat like a leftover seat, but I think Essex to Middlesex is just a bridge too far, Woodbridge and Livingston have very little in common.

Fair Map^TM

My main issue with this is what is either a tri or quad cut of Essex, and also I don't think a fair map would eliminate the Hispanic opportunity seat in Hudson County. Also the Passaic cut looks a bit unclean, I would leave Wayne with the West Milford seat, its more Clifton, Paterson, and Passaic that I would throw into the Bergen seat.

District 8 is majority Hispanic and 43.5% by CVAP. It does take a few thousand people out of Essex, but that's it.

[SevenEleven]

Gotta say I do like Middlesex finally getting a district

Do you like my map?