Alaska State Legislative Redistricting

[If my soul was made of stone]

I tried drawing a State House map of my own to post here, but managing population equality (especially around Fairbanks) without either a ridiculous amount of split precincts or truly awful COI is fiendishly difficult. The only part of these proposals that somewhat confuses me is the Panhandle. I'm not an expert on what COI is most logical for the state, but what's most apparent to me is that a more compact and competitive district can be drawn with all of Ketchikan-Gateway and most of Prince of Wales-Hyder, as well as a much more compact central Juneau seat. The remainder of Prince of Wales then combines with Petersburg, Wrangell, Sitka, and Angoon to form a nice, compact, and competitive Biden +5 seat, and the remainder can be grouped with a chunk of Copper River.

[If my soul was made of stone]

I was unable to make a satisfactory State House map without ludicrous precinct splits, but I managed to put together a State Senate map that could theoretically be split into State House districts by someone with more patience than me:





Trump wins 11 of 20 seats. The tipping-point seat for a Republican majority (the southern Panhandle district) is Trump +4; for a tie, it's a Trump +5 seat in southern Anchorage. Begich and Dunleavy win 10 seats apiece, with the Kodiak-Chugach district being Begich-Trump. It's possible to draw Dunleavy-Biden seats as well, but there are none in this map.