US with Canadian parties

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Maine:

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Hawaii



ETA: *checks actual CD map*

Wow, I think I've somehow managed the exact same borders as the current congressional districts.

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Here's Idaho:

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If it were at all possible, I wouldn't split Pocatello and Idaho Falls; an east-west split would make most sense, given religious demographics.

I didn't want a really long riding though. Feel free to make your own map.

Here is Nebraska



I just realized some of the population figures Ive been using on some maps may not be the 2010 census. Oh well.

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Names?

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Teddy, wouldn't it be possible to respect county lines a bit more ? I think that's what Canadian apportioners would focus on, isn't it ?

Our ridings are smaller, so we don't follow county lines that much (and many provinces dont have counties or county equivalents [SK, MB, NL]) , but we do follow municipal lines as much as possible.

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Here's a re-do of Idaho that keeps the Mormon area together (since the boundary commission did not like my first map),

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West Virginia. Grandfathered into an extra seat,

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Ideally, the entire Boise metropolitan area would be in one district. That should be possible. I would make my own map, but I'm occupied at the moment.

You mean put the panhandle in with the Mormon areas? That wouldn't be very compact looking.

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New Mexico



Las Cruces-Roswell would vote Tory, the other two could be won by any of the three parties.

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Very cool. I think some of the names could be improved to sound more Canadian. Also, I wonder if Staten Island could be its own district? Maybe an undersized district; just because I don't like just giving it a bit of the mainland. Oh well.

I was working on Nevada,

For cities, it would be "Center" instead of "Central", I would think.

Don't you mean Centre?

Ideally, the entire Boise metropolitan area would be in one district. That should be possible. I would make my own map, but I'm occupied at the moment.

You mean put the panhandle in with the Mormon areas? That wouldn't be very compact looking.

Would that be necessary? The Boise metro area is less than 40% of the state's population.

I think so. Idaho has 3 population centres. One will have to be divided.

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Here's Kansas

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Staten Island certainly ought to be its own district; its population is 80% of ideal, but logical boundaries are more important than exact equality.

Center ought to be used for riding names, because this is America.

The Nevada map looks good, but I would change the names. The city of Las Vegas's boundaries don't really correspond to anything (the Strip, for instance, isn't in Las Vegas proper), so I would call those two ridings Las Vegas North and Las Vegas South. The other district's name is rather long; if we take the example of Churchill in Manitoba and name it after the largest river in the riding, we get the name Humboldt. I like that.

Very well then.  Las Vegas North / Las Vegas South are good. But, I don't like Humboldt for the other riding name.  Howabout "Deseret"?

Other options,

Great Basin-Mojave or Great Basin-Colorado.

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Arkansas. I didn't have to resort to long names here [except for the Little Rock riding]

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I know you're doing Mississippi, but it was next on my list too:

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I don't think your Alabama districts are compact enough. I would rename Birmingham to "Jefferson", since it's just the county.

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ick! you split a county! Ah well, naturally I like my map better, but let's see what others think. (Also, Delta-Natchez is too long) It should be noted that when making these maps, communities of interest are important to be kept together. Not crazy gerrymanders like in the US, but it would probably be one of the the things looked at would be to keep the Black areas together. I admit to making the maps without looking at the demographic maps.

Anyways, here is Iowa:

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I noticed your Gulf Coast riding is bigger than mine, any reason for that? My district has 599,000 when the quotient is even less than that, at 593,000.

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Oklahoma...



"Panhandle" seems to be a re-occurring name in riding names ...

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Oregon

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Have we more or less accepted my Alabama map? If so, I'd like to get a few other people's input on our different Mississippi maps before we decide which one to use. Some point soon I can do Colorado and Arizona.

I'd like to  hear what Xahar thinks, but I dont mind going with your map.

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No offence, but this sticking to county lines as though they were religions, makes me wonder if you guys understand the Canadian redistricting process.

Good point, but I think I'm treating US counties like Canadian municipalities. Municipalities are rarely divided up unless they have to. I'm doing this because of the size of the of the ridings are bigger. 

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We should do state legislatures too, when we're done.

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Here is Kentucky,

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Using "Outer" is very British, and not used in Canada at all.  You can easily use county names instead

Yellow becomes "Anoka-Hennepin"
Purple becomes "Ramsey-Washington" and
Green becomes "Dakota-Carver-Scott"