Redrawing the Pennsylvania Congressional Districts

[RBH]

The first 14 districts have 646371 people. The last 5 have 646372.

Divided counties are bolded

District 1 (Brady):
Philadelphia County

District 2 (Fattah):
Philadelphia County

District 3 (Schwartz):
Montgomery [421563]
Philadelphia County [224808]

District 4 (Open):
Montgomery [328534]
Berks [317837]

District 5 (Holden/Dent):
Lehigh [261105]
Schuylkill [150336]
Lebanon [120327]
Carbon [58802]
Berks [55801]

District 6 (Weldon):
Delaware [550864]
Chester [95507]

District 7 (Gerlach/Pitts):
Chester [337994]
Lancaster [308377]

District 8 (Fitzpatrick):
Bucks [597632]
Northampton [48739]

District 9 (Kanjorski):
Luzerne [319250]
Lackawanna [213295]
Columbia [64151]
Monroe [49675]

District 10 (Sherwood):
Northampton [218330]
Monroe [89012]
Bradford [62791]
Lycoming [54385]
Lehigh [50985]
Wayne [47722]
Pike [46302]
Wyoming [28080]
Susquehanna [42238]
Sullivan [6556]

District 11 (Shuster):
Centre [135758]
Blair [129144]
Franklin [93761]
Mifflin [46486]
Huntingdon [45586]
Union [41624]
Bedford [41670]
Clinton [37914]
Snyder [37546]
Juniata [22821]
Fulton [14261]

District 12 (Murtha):
Westmoreland [173210]
Cambria [152598]
Fayette [148644]
Clearfield [83382]
Somerset [80023]
Bedford [8514]

District 13 (Platts):
York [381751]
Lancaster [162281]
Adams [47226]
Franklin [35552]
Dauphin [19561]

District 14 (Open):
Dauphin [232237]
Cumberland [213674]
Northumberland [94556]
Adams [44066]
Perry [43602]
Montour [18236]

District 15 (Open):
Washington [202897]
Westmoreland [196783]
Beaver [141186]
Butler [64834]
Greene [40672]

District 16 (Peterson):
Butler [98171]
Indiana [89605]
Armstrong [72392]
Lycoming [65659]
Venango [57565]
McKean [45936]
Jefferson [45932]
Clarion [41765]
Tioga [41373]
Elk [35112]
Warren [23862]
Potter [18080]
Cameron [5974]
Forest [4946]

District 17 (English):
Erie [280843]
Mercer [120293]
Lawrence [94643]
Crawford [90366]
Beaver [40226]
Warren [20001]

District 18 (Hart/Murphy):
Alleghany [635294]
Butler [11078]

District 19 (Doyle):
Alleghany

Here's a small map of what this would involve.



Divided counties have a dot. Alleghany and Philadelphia are in gray.

And I didn't divide 2/3rds of the counties, like the current map does.

Any thoughts?

[RBH]

Yeah, it might be possible to cut down the length of Sherwood's district, but it would require splitting some of Kanjorski's counties. Sherwood did represent Scranton until 2003. So there might be a way to flip Lackawanna county to Sherwood and flip 213K other people from Sherwood's district to Kanjorski's district.

And the map for 1993-2003 also had a lot of bizarre districts.