Redistricting Game

[muon2]

The Cuban one was interesting. I found the best solution was to add the D area in the NW to the SW district and boost it to well over 60% D. Then add every area with over 20% Cuban in the new district. remove enough high cuban area to the N district to make it 51% R while it picks up the D leaning areas from the coastal district. Its not very gerrymandered. The Cuban district is about 59% R and the other two are 51% R. Everyone is happy and the courts love it, too.

You can do a bit better for the two GOP seats if in the eastern coastal city you do a narrow strip along the SE coast to get the Democrat area in the center of the city in the SC district.  This then lets you shift some of the heavily GOP northern suburbs into the NC district, to make up for the loss of the GOP Cuban areas.

I gave it another shot and was able to do better for all the reps. It passes the courts as well despite one extreme gerrymander.

Rep. Phlop swung NW and took in every area in the western third that was 20% Cuban or less (63% D).

Rep. Pride's new district takes in the remaining third which is about 2/3 of the high Cuban area (58% R, 65% Cuban).

Rep. Gull dropped the SE beaches and the central D beach and moved across the northern side of the state and also south across the river just east of Rep. Hughes. (54% R).

Rep. Hughes goes from the R hills NE of her house and the eastern third of the Cuban community then straight S to the state line and east to the coast, linking with the high R SE coast (52% R).

Rep. Child has the remaining area including the central beach and the W and S outskirts of the city (58% D).

[muon2]

This one is awesome:


Rep-Dem
57  -  41
56  -  41
56  -  42
27  -  72

Nice job, but could it be better by moving Rep. Atrix' house into Rep. Werker's distric and move population from a slightly less D pixel back instead?

[RIP Robert H Bork]

I just played it. The characters and their names are by far the best parts of the game (for example, "Libby Rahl", meaning of course "liberal", and "Conner Servative", meaning of course "conservative").

I like the first mission, especially "Ray Bid", and his face:

(The first picture shows the starting map, except that at the start the square that contains Ray Bid's home and the square immediately to the left of it are both in district 1.)



And after we are done:

[RIP Robert H Bork]

This one is awesome:


Rep-Dem
57  -  41
56  -  41
56  -  42
27  -  72

I love it! Did it pass, or was it defeated in court?

[platypeanArchcow]

I've played this before, but.  This time I decided to make a hilarious monstrosity of which I unfortunately failed to make a screenshot, to wit, a map with a 65% black district, two 50% dem districts, and a 48% dem/43% rep district for the unfortunate Val Hughes.  (I couldn't get it to 50% dem while staying contiguous...)  A description goes something like this:

• Moe Gull: extremely republican areas in the north, west, and southeast joined by thin lines.  Basically all the republican areas except the black one.
• Flora Child: the northeastern end, as well as snaky bits of padding between Gull's district and the black district, including her house and going all the way to the southeast.
• Black district: the very black city (except for a strip of the most democratic bits going through the middle) and a long string winding about north connecting it to the very republican part of the northeast.  This district managed to only be 53% dem!
• Val Hughes: a big sparsely populated blob in the south and an essentially vertical strip in the east.
• Philip Phlop: a big blob in the middle together with a panhandle to the south.  The one district that borders all the others.