111th House of Reps vs. 112th House of Reps Maps

[Devilman88]

This is the map for the 111th House of Reps



This is the map for the 112th House of Reps

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

This is the one instance where I break my allegiance to the Atlas color system and prefer Red-Republican, and Blue for Democratic. It just looks more pleasant in my opinion.



Full Disclosure, My Pictures file is filled with such maps using that color style for every election going back to 1874.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

that's quite a change, esp. in the midwest and interior southwest - only NM and IA are left as non-coastal states with majority Dem US house representation.
nice maps, though i will say that the second one with all that blue is quite a bit easier on the eyes

[Nichlemn]

that's quite a change, esp. in the midwest and interior southwest - only NM and IA are left as non-coastal states with majority Dem US house representation.
nice maps, though i will say that the second one with all that blue is quite a bit easier on the eyes

Interestingly, they were the only two Gore 00/Bush 04 states. NH, the other outlier in its region, was the only Bush 00/Kerry 04 state. You'd think they'd go the other way around.

Also notable is the fact that the Republicans picked up the majority in 18 House delegations and lost 1 (in DE). They turned MN into a tie but lost a tie in HA. This is a considerably bigger state swing than any other major metric.

[ajc0918]

that's quite a change, esp. in the midwest and interior southwest - only NM and IA are left as non-coastal states with majority Dem US house representation.
nice maps, though i will say that the second one with all that blue is quite a bit easier on the eyes

Interestingly, they were the only two Gore 00/Bush 04 states. NH, the other outlier in its region, was the only Bush 00/Kerry 04 state. You'd think they'd go the other way around.

Also notable is the fact that the Republicans picked up the majority in 18 House delegations and lost 1 (in DE). They turned MN into a tie but lost a tie in HA. This is a considerably bigger state swing than any other major metric.

Hawaii is HI.

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A lot can change in two years.

[rbt48]

Full Disclosure, My Pictures file is filled with such maps using that color style for every election going back to 1874.

Please explain how I can access you pictures file, if possible.

[Joe Biden 2020]

That is a stark contrast.  It shows what kind of year the Republicans had.  The midwest, interior south, and the southwest all had shifts towards the Republicans. 

I'm suprised at Nevada, really.  They re-elected Harry Reid by a little more comfortable margin than the polls indicated, but the Democrats lost the majority in what I perceived to be the fastest Democratic swinging state in the Southwest.  Was Sharron Angle really that bad?  I know my relatives who live in Las Vegas, who are staunch conservatives, did not really care for Angle and thought the establishment candidate would have been better.  Still I'm suprised at Nevada.  Can someone (maybe, Joe) kind of enlighten me on Nevada, because it seems to me that if the House goes Republican than the Democratic Senator isn't on easy street, either.

Of course, I do realize that overall the Democrats had a less-damaging night in the Senate than the polls indicated ending up with a 6 seat advantage as opposed to a 1-3 seat advantage as the polls indicated on Monday, November 1.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

That is a stark contrast.  It shows what kind of year the Republicans had.  The midwest, interior south, and the southwest all had shifts towards the Republicans. 

I'm suprised at Nevada, really.  They re-elected Harry Reid by a little more comfortable margin than the polls indicated, but the Democrats lost the majority in what I perceived to be the fastest Democratic swinging state in the Southwest.  Was Sharron Angle really that bad?  I know my relatives who live in Las Vegas, who are staunch conservatives, did not really care for Angle and thought the establishment candidate would have been better.  Still I'm suprised at Nevada.  Can someone (maybe, Joe) kind of enlighten me on Nevada, because it seems to me that if the House goes Republican than the Democratic Senator isn't on easy street, either.

Of course, I do realize that overall the Democrats had a less-damaging night in the Senate than the polls indicated ending up with a 6 seat advantage as opposed to a 1-3 seat advantage as the polls indicated on Monday, November 1.

NV is a 3 district state, so the GOP pickup of NV-3 was all that was needed to shift the house delegation from 2/3 Dem to 2/3 Rep. This was a close race too - only about 2K vote difference. Also, candidate selection does matter - the difference between Angle's loss and Sandoval's win shows that.

[minionofmidas]

This is a seats map. A popular vote (in house races) map would have been interesting.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Interesting to compare it with the PV map.

[Miles]

Its amazing that Democrats still control NC's delegation.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

Well, this will probably be the last time for a while.

[tmthforu94]

Its amazing that Democrats still control NC's delegation.

Only because they gerrymandered it to where it's nearly impossible for them not too. I expect Republicans to control the delegation after 2012.

[minionofmidas]

Its amazing that Democrats still control NC's delegation.

Only because they gerrymandered it to where it's nearly impossible for them not too.

No - they gerrymandered it so as to control six seats even while trailing by a long way. They control the delegation because both Shuler and Kissell (in different ways) somehow inoculated against the wave. Or maybe just had pisspoor opponents, I dunno. (But, well, yeah on post 2012.)

[Dgov]

Its amazing that Democrats still control NC's delegation.

Only because they gerrymandered it to where it's nearly impossible for them not too.

No - they gerrymandered it so as to control six seats even while trailing by a long way. They control the delegation because both Shuler and Kissell (in different ways) somehow inoculated against the wave. Or maybe just had pisspoor opponents, I dunno. (But, well, yeah on post 2012.)

I'm pretty sure they targeted the 8th (it contains heavily Democratic parts of Charlotte and Fayette for no real reason other than to make it more Democrat) and it just took until 2008 for them to actually win it.

but yeah, expect that to end in 2012.  The Democrats will probably lose 2 seats there just by drawing a fair map (8th and 13th), and 3-4 if the Republicans draw their own gerrymander.

[Dgov]

that's quite a change, esp. in the midwest and interior southwest - only NM and IA are left as non-coastal states with majority Dem US house representation.

Both of which had highly competitive house races where the Republicans only barely missed out on winning their delegations.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Its amazing that Democrats still control NC's delegation.

Only because they gerrymandered it to where it's nearly impossible for them not too.

No - they gerrymandered it so as to control six seats even while trailing by a long way. They control the delegation because both Shuler and Kissell (in different ways) somehow inoculated against the wave. Or maybe just had pisspoor opponents, I dunno. (But, well, yeah on post 2012.)

I'm pretty sure they targeted the 8th (it contains heavily Democratic parts of Charlotte and Fayette for no real reason other than to make it more Democrat) and it just took until 2008 for them to actually win it.

but yeah, expect that to end in 2012.  The Democrats will probably lose 2 seats there just by drawing a fair map (8th and 13th), and 3-4 if the Republicans draw their own gerrymander.

The Republicans did challenge the 8th but the Republican candidate was some sports journalist or something and he was painted as an elitist that will what few jobs you have left to China. He was actually the better candidate in the primary runoff because the other guy was nuts.