2012 Congressional Districts for states at their max historical representation

[RBH]

to explain that more concisely... the maps will be of states at their peak number of Congressmen.

The "peak" numbers are only for states who won't be setting their new peak in 2012.

AL: 10
AR: 7
CT: 7
IL: 27
IN: 13
IA: 11
KS: 8
KY: 13
LA: 8
ME: 8
MD: 9
MA: 16
MI: 19
MN: 10
MS: 8
MO: 16
MT: 2
NE: 6
NH: 6
NJ: 15
NY: 45
ND: 3
OH: 24
OK: 9
PA: 36
RI: 3
SC: 9
SD: 3
TN: 13
VT: 6
VA: 23
WV: 6
WI: 8

So, here's a 16 district 2012 Missouri. Which doubles as my entry for the Brad Miller thread, since there's no challenge to giving me a winnable district, because I live in a district that is 60/40 Democratic already (suburban MO5). So I got MO10 on this map.

Statewide (northern)



Statewide (southern)



St. Louis



The KC area:



MO1 (blue, STL Co/NW STL): 54 AA/41 W
MO2 (green, STL City/SE STLCo): 65W/26.5 AA
MO3 (purple, STLCo): 69W/22 AA
MO4 (red, STL/St Charles): 87W
MO5 (yellow, East Central MO): 89W
MO6 (teal, STL exurbs): 92W
MO7 (gray, Cass County to Joplin): 89W
MO8 (blueish, Central MO): 87W
MO9 (skyblue, KCMO): 47.5W/37AA/10.5 H
MO10 (pink, Eastern Jackson County/West Central MO): 85W
MO11 (lime, northern MO): 94W
MO12 (light blue, Buchanan/Clay/Platte): 84W
MO13 (tan, Greene County and surroundings): 91W
MO14 (gold, SW MO): 91.5W
MO15 (orange, SE MO): 89W
MO16 (greenish, Jefferson County to the SW): 95W

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I actually did a 45 NY back around Christmas time using 1.0. Unfortunately it ends up playing by 1942 rules as well (population equality not required) . I could try to redo it, but it would take time.

[freepcrusher]

peak number for each state in the modern 435 seat era

Alabama 10 1913-1932
Alaska 1 (since statehood)
Arizona 9 (beginning in 2013)
Arkansas 7 (1913-1952)
California 53 (since 2003)
Colorado 7 (since 2003)
Connecticut 6 1923-2002 (would have gained a seat in 1920 had they reapportioned)
Delaware 1
Florida 27 (beginning in 2013)
Georgia 14 (beginning in 2013)
Hawaii 2 (since 1963)
Idaho 2
Illinois 27 (1913-1942)
Indiana 13 1913-1922 (would have lost a seat had reapportionment been done in 1920
Iowa 11 1913-1922 (same as Indiana)
Kansas 8 1913-1922
Kentucky 11 1913-1922
Louisiana 8 1913-1922, 1933-1992
Maine 4 1913-1922
Maryland 8 1963-Present
Massachusetts 16 1913-1932
Michigan 19 1963-1982
Minnesota 10 1913-1932
Mississippi 8 1913-1922
Missouri 16 1913-1922
Montana 2 1913-1992
Nebraska 6 1913-1922
Nevada 4 (beginning in 2013)
New Hampshire 2
New Jersey 15 1963-1982
New Mexico 3 1983-Present
New York 45 1933-1952
North Carolina 13 2003-Present
North Dakota 3 1913-1932
Ohio 24 1923-1942 again from 1963-1972
Oklahoma 9 1933-1942
Oregon 5 1983-Present
Pennsylvania 36 1913-1932
Rhode Island 3 1913-1922
South Carolina 7 1913-1932 again beginning in 2013
South Dakota 3 1913-1932
Tennessee 10 1913-1932 again from 1943-1952
Texas 36 (beginning in 2013)
Utah 4 (beginning in 2013)
Vermont 2 (1913-1922)
Virginia 11 1993-Present
Washington 10 (beginning in 2013)
West Virginia 6 (1913-1962)
Wisconsin 11 (1913-1932)
Wyoming 1

[Torie]

Iowa down from 11 to 4.  Very impressive! 

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I found some of the maps I had done previous and decided that I was trying to do 2 things at once. 1. to see what the maps would of looked like and 2. Equally distribute NY's population across 45 districts. So I spent the last 5 hours, with some help from Wikipedia pages of the districts as well as for some of the old reps, trying to do the first objective. With an aim towards the second at a later point.

So I present to you the Deweymander which was in affect from 1945-1953. When NY gained 44 and 45 in 1933, it didn't add them as districts but instead put them in as At-Large seats. Following Dewey's election as Governor in 1942, the Republicans (For them, holding both houses of the NY legislature would seem impossible today, then it was more likely for them to do so then for the Dems to) redrew the districts to remove the At-large seats, and eliminate a few people they didn't like, including Vito Marcantonio (Unsuccessfull) and fascist fish (Successfull). They kept nearly all the counties intact, considering this is prior to "One man, one vote" and the other cases of the 1960's and afterwards, as well as the VRA, doing so was much easier. Lack of more detailed information means that the split counties Erie, Monroe, Rensselaer, Westchester, Bronx, Manhattan, Queens, Kings (Brooklyn) and Nassau are wrong. Everything else should be accurate though.

A 45 district map with modern population comes to about 450,000 per district. The Suffolk+Nassau 1st is about 1.5 million people. The Syracuse seat is also over 1 million. Some of the other seats are severly lacking in population especially with six seats fit entirely within the island Manhattan. 4-6 covered all of Queens and 7 through 15 all of Brooklyn. A tiny piece of the later was in the 16th with Staten Island. 17-22 was Manhattan, and 23-26 covered Bronx.