How gerrymandered is your district?

[Jake]

Scale of 1-10, how bad is your district. A map is appreciated, they can be found here.  Explain why.

[Keystone Phil]

I guess a 7. The GOP tried to make PA 13 into a Republican district and, as Flyers will brag, it backfired. I better be thrown into PA 8 in 2010.

[Moooooo]

8

[Keystone Phil]

[MHS2002]

3: The only part that is really gerrymandered is the eastern part of the district by Manassas, Chantilly and McLean.

[Jake]

In 1998 and 2000, Don Sherwood narrowly defeated Bob Casey's brother Pat Casey for the PA-10 seat.  The old PA-10, I believe, had Wyoming and Lackawanna together.  To eliminate the Democratic majority areas, the GOP cut the city of Scranton off and replaced it with some down state counties and some northern Wilkes-Barre exurbs.  Thus making the district safe for Sherwood, the result, no serious competitors the last two times.

Overall, the map doesn't look like MD-2 or PA-12, so I'd rate it a 5 or 6.

[Smash255]

I would say a 4 or 5, contains some Democrtaic areas such as Glen Cove & Long Beach, but cuts out the heavily minority areas of N amityville & northern portions of Copaigue, as it just cuts into the immediate south shore iN SW suffolk

[J. J.]

Darby Borough should not be in the same district as North Philadelphia!!!!!!!  5

[KEmperor]

I gave it a 1.  There is no gerrymandering that I can see, its pretty good.

[A18]

3: The only part that is really gerrymandered is the eastern part of the district by Manassas, Chantilly and McLean.

We live in the same congressional district...

[True Democrat]

I'd say my district is fairly gerrymandered.

[King]

I rated it a 2, it would be a 1 but just look how complex the districts around us became (Honda of CA-15 recieved 55% in 2000 but 72% in 2004) in a computerized gerrymander world:

[nclib]

My district is relatively ungerrymandered. I'd give it a 3.

[King]

My district is relatively ungerrymandered. I'd give it a 3.

I wish you could say the same for NC-12 which connects Winston-Salem to Charlotte.

[MHS2002]

3: The only part that is really gerrymandered is the eastern part of the district by Manassas, Chantilly and McLean.

We live in the same congressional district...

What part do you live in?

[Erc]

I'd give it a 5, maybe a 6.



Not too bad, but very nicely cuts out the bad areas of the county and replaces them with a random part of Rockland.

It's not really gerrymandered in itself (the district actually became more Republican after the last redistricting, despite the fact that there's no chance a Republican will win here until Nita Lowey dies...by which point the district will be very solidly Democrat).  The look is really more the effect of the ridiculous gerrymander of NY-17:

[Dave from Michigan]

My district is Michigan 11th I don't know how to post one of those maps.  I would rate it a 5

[phk]

Maybe a 3

[??????????]

3 or 4

[Cashcow]

NJ-1 is pretty fair.

[12th Doctor]

Well, my acctual address and where I grew up is in PA-5.  I currently live and go to college in PA-3





I would give them both a three.  It might appear to an outsider as if that were gerrymandered, but they really aren't.  If you knew the layout of the towns in that area, you could see that this is really the only way it could be done.

[Erc]

Maybe a 3

Yay Porterville!

[danwxman]

I live in Mechanicsburg. The district isn't that gerrymandered considering it includes the city of York which is very Democratic...but it's still a safe seat for Republicans.

[muon2]

I'd give it a 5, maybe a 6.



Not too bad, but very nicely cuts out the bad areas of the county and replaces them with a random part of Rockland.

It's not really gerrymandered in itself (the district actually became more Republican after the last redistricting, despite the fact that there's no chance a Republican will win here until Nita Lowey dies...by which point the district will be very solidly Democrat).  The look is really more the effect of the ridiculous gerrymander of NY-17:

Many areas that don't seem too gerrymandered have exactly the problem you note. They are the compact remains of a neighboring district's gerrymander. In that case I would say they are still reasonably gerrymandered.

In NY 18, the electoral power of Lowey made it easy to make the district more Republican. That's still a kind of gerrymander, knowing that a strong candidate can hold a seat even with more potential votes from the other party moved into the district.

[Blerpiez]

3.  It's not that good-looking, but there really isn't any need to gerrymander here.