Congressional District Names (The Madness Returns)

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Every so often I have a mad desire to give all the Congressional Districts names. It's happend again.
Need to work out some reasonable guidelines so...

1. Districts will be named in a similer way to U.K Constituencies and as if they were drawn by some federal body
2. Each State will be treated in the way each "county" is treated by the Boundary Commision
3. The counties containing large cities will be treated as if they are the large cities for practical reasons
4. The following are acceptable to be used in District Names:
a) Cities/Towns, Counties, States
b) Geographic regions, urban/suburban districts/subdivisions, certain physical geographic features (including rivers, valleys, hills), local landmarks
c) Historical regions or areas
d) North, South, East, West, Central, Mid (not in urban areas) and any accurate combination of the them (North East, South West etc)
e) Certain other words that are appropriate in individual circumstances (like High, Rural or Great)
d) &, - (in rare cases) , (in rare cases), with (in rare cases)

[Joe Republic]

If it helps, OH-03 should be Dayton, and OH-01 should be Cincinnati.  Though I guess that would be obvious....

[TeePee4Prez]

PA 1- Philadelphia South and East
PA 2- Philadelphia Northwest and West
PA 3- Northwestern Pennsylvania
PA 4- Beaver-Allegheny North
PA 5- North Central Pennsylvania
PA 6- Montgomery West- Chester North-Berks East
PA 7- Delaware
PA 8- Bucks- Philadelphia Far Northeast
PA 9- South Central Pennsylvania
PA 10- Northeastern Pennsylvania
PA 11- Pocono
PA 12- Southwestern Pennsylvania
PA 13- Montgomery East-Philadelphia Northeast
PA 14- Pittsburgh
PA 15- Lehigh Valley
PA 16- Lancaster-Chester South
PA 17- Capitol- Schuykill-Berks West
PA 18- Washington-Westmoreland (Max Power, TD, help?)
PA 19- York-Adams

[True Democrat]

PA 18- Washington-Westmoreland (Max Power, TD, help?)

Maybe something like Westmoreland-South Suburbs or something.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I think that's it... if there any obvious ommisions *please* mention them. The naming will begin either tomorrow or in a few hours

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Maybe something like Westmoreland-South Suburbs or something.

I'll have to have a closer look at the map, but this little rule:

3. The counties containing large cities will be treated as if they are the large cities for practical reasons

Should make naming that monstrosity (and others like it) somewhat easier.

[jimrtex]

d) North, South, East, West, Central, Mid (not in urban areas) and any accurate combination of the them (North East, South West etc)

I think Northeast and Southwest would be the more conventional American spelling.

[Max Power]

PA 18- Washington-Westmoreland (Max Power, TD, help?)

Maybe something like Westmoreland-South Suburbs or something.

Yeah, that would be right, or Greensburg- South Suburbs.

[socaldem]

California

CA-01: North Coast
CA-02: North Central Valley
CA-03: Sacramento West
CA-04: Sierra Nevada
CA-05: Sacramento
CA-06: Marin-Sonoma
CA-07: Northeast bay
CA-08: San Francisco
CA-09: Berkeley-Oakland
CA-10: Contra Costa-Solano
CA-11: San Joaquin-Danville
CA-12: South San Francisco
CA-13: Alameda
CA-14: Silicon Valley
CA-15: Santa Clara
CA-16: San Jose
CA-17: Monterey
CA-18: Merced-Stockton
CA-19: Stanislaus-Yosemite
CA-20: West Central Valley
CA-21: North Fresno-Tulare
CA-22: Kern
CA-23: Ventura-Santa Barbara
CA-24: Central Coast
CA-25 Antelope Valley-Owens Valley
CA-26 North San Gabriel Valley-Rancho Cucamonga
CA-27 North San Fernando Valley
CA-28 Hollywood Hills-Central San Fernando Valley
CA-29 Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena
CA-30 Los Angeles Westside
CA-31 Hollywood-Eagle Rock
CA-32 South San Gabriel Valley
CA-33 Culver City-Wilshire-Los Feliz
CA-34 East Los Angeles
CA-35 South Los Angeles
CA-36 South Bay-San Pedro
CA-37 Carson-Compton-Long Beach
CA-38 Norwalk-Montebello-Pomona
CA-39 Paramount-Cerritos-Whittier
CA-40 Cypress-Fullerton-Orange
CA-41 Inland Empire
CA-42 North Orange County
CA-43 Ontario-San Bernardino
CA-44 Riverside-San Clemente
CA-45 Palm Springs-Mareno Valley
CA-46 Huntington Beach-Palos Verdes
CA-47 Anaheim-Santa Ana
CA-48 Irvine-Newport-Laguna
CA-49 North County San Diego
CA-50 North San Diego
CA-51 South San Diego-Imperial
CA-52 Inland San Diego
CA-53 Central San Diego

[Emsworth]

New Jersey:

01: Camden
02: South Jersey
03: Burlington and Ocean
04: Trenton
05: North Jersey
06: New Brunswick
07: Somerset and Hunterdon
08: Paterson
09: Bergen and Hudson
10: Elizabeth
11: Morris
12: Mid Jersey
13: Newark and Jersey City

[Emsworth]

New York:

01: Suffolk East
02: Suffolk West
03: Nassau East
04: Nassau South West
05: Nassau and Queens
06: Queens South
07: Bronx East
08: New York
09: Brooklyn and Queens
10: Brooklyn East
11: Brooklyn Mid
12: Brooklyn North
13: Richmond
14: Manhattan and Queens
15: Manhattan
16: Bronx West
17: Bronx and Rockland
18: Westchester
19: Westchester, Putnam, Orange, and Dutchess
20: West New York
21: Albany
22: South East New York
23: North East New York
24: Mid New York
25: Syracuse
26: North West New York
27: Lake Erie
28: Lake Ontario
29: South West New York

[PADem]

CA-37 Carson-Compton-Long Beach

50 Cent for CA-37 Representative!

[Speed of Sound]

CA-37 Carson-Compton-Long Beach

50 Cent for CA-37 Representative!

Word

[Dave from Michigan]

Michigan

1  Northern Michigan & the U.P.
2  West Coast
3  Grand rapids
4   North central  Michigan
5   Flint & Saginaw
6    Southwestern Michigan
7    Central South Michigan
8     That very gerrymandered district in Mid Michigan
9     Central Oakland
10   Norhtern Macomb & the Thumb (or Huron)
11   Western Wayne and Western Oakland
12   South Oakland & south Macomb
13   Detroit
14   Detroit & Downriver
15   Southern Wayne  & Ann Arbor

[socaldem]

Every so often I have a mad desire to give all the Congressional Districts names. It's happend again.
Need to work out some reasonable guidelines so...

1. Districts will be named in a similer way to U.K Constituencies and as if they were drawn by some federal body
2. Each State will be treated in the way each "county" is treated by the Boundary Commision
3. The counties containing large cities will be treated as if they are the large cities for practical reasons
4. The following are acceptable to be used in District Names:
a) Cities/Towns, Counties, States
b) Geographic regions, urban/suburban districts/subdivisions, certain physical geographic features (including rivers, valleys, hills), local landmarks
c) Historical regions or areas
d) North, South, East, West, Central, Mid (not in urban areas) and any accurate combination of the them (North East, South West etc)
e) Certain other words that are appropriate in individual circumstances (like High, Rural or Great)
d) &, - (in rare cases) , (in rare cases), with (in rare cases)

Hmm...I'm not sure I followed the rules very well, especially in Southern California...its just that with all the districts in the L.A. basin, there arent really geographic features/county distinctions to make naming easier and districts are often a gerrymandered cluster of localities...

[socaldem]

California with changes...

CA-01: North Coast
CA-02: North Central Valley
CA-03: Sacramento West
CA-04: Sierra Nevada
CA-05: Sacramento
CA-06: Marin-Sonoma
CA-07: Northeast bay
CA-08: San Francisco
CA-09: Berkeley
CA-10: Contra Costa-Solano
CA-11: San Joaquin
CA-12: South San Francisco
CA-13: Alameda
CA-14: Silicon Valley
CA-15: Santa Clara
CA-16: San Jose
CA-17: Monterey
CA-18: Merced-Stockton
CA-19: Yosemite
CA-20: West Central Valley
CA-21: Tulare
CA-22: Kern
CA-23: Ventura
CA-24: Central Coast
CA-25 Antelope-Owens Valleys
CA-26 North San Gabriel Valley
CA-27 North San Fernando Valley
CA-28 Central San Fernando Valley
CA-29 Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena
CA-30 Los Angeles Westside
CA-31 Hollywood
CA-32 South San Gabriel Valley
CA-33 Central Los Angeles
CA-34 East Los Angeles
CA-35 South Los Angeles
CA-36 South Bay
CA-37 Compton
CA-38 Norwalk-Montebello-Pomona
CA-39 San Gabriel River
CA-40 Fullerton
CA-41 Inland Empire
CA-42 North Orange County
CA-43 Ontario-San Bernardino
CA-44 Riverside
CA-45 Palm Springs
CA-46 Huntington Beach-Palos Verdes
CA-47 Anaheim-Santa Ana
CA-48 Irvine-Newport-Laguna
CA-49 North County San Diego
CA-50 North San Diego
CA-51 South San Diego
CA-52 Inland San Diego
CA-53 Central San Diego

CA-01: North Coast
CA-02: North Central Valley
CA-03: Sacramento West
CA-04: Sierra Nevada
CA-05: Sacramento
CA-06: Marin-Sonoma
CA-07: Northeast bay
CA-08: San Francisco
CA-09: Berkeley-Oakland
CA-10: Contra Costa-Solano
CA-11: San Joaquin-Danville
CA-12: South San Francisco
CA-13: Alameda
CA-14: Silicon Valley
CA-15: Santa Clara
CA-16: San Jose
CA-17: Monterey
CA-18: Merced-Stockton
CA-19: Stanislaus-Yosemite
CA-20: West Central Valley
CA-21: North Fresno-Tulare
CA-22: Kern
CA-23: Ventura-Santa Barbara
CA-24: Central Coast
CA-25 Antelope Valley-Owens Valley
CA-26 North San Gabriel Valley-Rancho Cucamonga
CA-27 North San Fernando Valley
CA-28 Hollywood Hills-Central San Fernando Valley
CA-29 Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena
CA-30 Los Angeles Westside
CA-31 Hollywood-Eagle Rock
CA-32 South San Gabriel Valley
CA-33 Culver City-Wilshire-Los Feliz
CA-34 East Los Angeles
CA-35 South Los Angeles
CA-36 South Bay-San Pedro
CA-37 Carson-Compton-Long Beach
CA-38 Norwalk-Montebello-Pomona
CA-39 Paramount-Cerritos-Whittier
CA-40 Cypress-Fullerton-Orange
CA-41 Inland Empire
CA-42 North Orange County
CA-43 Ontario-San Bernardino
CA-44 Riverside-San Clemente
CA-45 Palm Springs-Mareno Valley
CA-46 Huntington Beach-Palos Verdes
CA-47 Anaheim-Santa Ana
CA-48 Irvine-Newport-Laguna
CA-49 North County San Diego
CA-50 North San Diego

[Smash255]

CA-37 Carson-Compton-Long Beach

50 Cent for CA-37 Representative!

I would say Dr. Dre, afterall 50 Cent is from Queens, NY (now lives in farmington, CT)

[Smash255]

New York:

01: Suffolk East
02: Suffolk West
03: Nassau East
04: Nassau South West
05: Nassau and Queens
06: Queens South
07: Bronx East
08: New York
09: Brooklyn and Queens
10: Brooklyn East
11: Brooklyn Mid
12: Brooklyn North
13: Richmond
14: Manhattan and Queens
15: Manhattan
16: Bronx West
17: Bronx and Rockland
18: Westchester
19: Westchester, Putnam, Orange, and Dutchess
20: West New York
21: Albany
22: South East New York
23: North East New York
24: Mid New York
25: Syracuse
26: North West New York
27: Lake Erie
28: Lake Ontario
29: South West New York

Generally good (where at least most of the district boundries are) but keep in mind NY-02 does have a sliver of EastCentral Nassau, NY-03 does delve into SW Suffolk, and hooks up into North-Central Nassau, as long as to the beaches into Central Nassau (Long Beach is in NY-03).  But most of NY03 is in Eastern Nassau & most of NY-02 is in Western Suffolk so they are generally good, because it would get too technical otherwise

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I think Northeast and Southwest would be the more conventional American spelling.

Good point

[Democratic Hawk]

I recall doing Georgia some time back. It was Chinese torture that was

Dave

[jokerman]

Well, Arkansas's pretty simple.  There's a Northeast District, a Central District, a Southern District, and a Northwest District.

[Jake]

PA-1 Philadelphia South
PA-2 Philadelphia North
PA-3 Erie and Northwest Pennsylvania
PA-4 Pittsburgh North
PA-5 Central Pennsylvania
PA-6 Berks and Chester
PA-7 Delaware and Chester
PA-8 Bucks
PA-9 Southern Pennsylvania
PA-10 Northeast Pennsylvania
PA-11 Scranton/Wilkes-Barre
PA-12 Southwest Pennsylvania
PA-13 Montgomery and Pennsylvania North
PA-14 Pittsburgh Central
PA-15 Lehigh Valley
PA-16 Lancaster
PA-17 Capital and I-81 OR Capital and Schuykill Valley
PA-18 Pittsburgh South
PA-19 York

[Emsworth]

Pennsylvania:

01: Philadelphia South
02: Philadelphia North
03: North West Pennsylvania
04: New Castle
05: North Pennsylvania
06: Chester and Berks
07: Delaware, Chester, and Montgomery
08: Bucks
09: South Pennsylvania
10: North East and Mid Pennsylvania
11: Scranton and Wilkes-Barre
12: South West Pennsylvania
13: Montgomery
14: Pittsburgh
15: Lehigh and Northampton
16: Chester and Lancaster
17: Harrisburg and Mid Pennsylvania
18: West Pennsylvania
19: Adams, York, and Cumberland

[Filuwaúrdjan]

New England

ME-1: Maine South (or Portland & Augusta)
ME-2: Maine North (or Madawaska)

NH-1: New Hampshire Southeast (or Manchester & Dover)
NH-2: New Hampshire West (or Concord & Nashua)

VT-AL: Vermont

MA-1: Massachusetts West (or Springfield West & Worcester North, or '' '' and the Berkshires)
MA-2: Springfield East & Worcester South
MA-3: Worcester Central & Attleboro
MA-4: Fall River-New Bedford & Newton
MA-5: Lawrence & Lowell
MA-6: Essex
MA-7: Boston North & Framingham (Framingham, Maldon & Medford)
MA-8: Boston Central
MA-9: Boston South & Brockton
MA-10: Cape Cod & Quincy

RI-1: Providence Northeast & Newport
RI-2: Providence Southwest & Warwick

CT-1: Hartford
CT-2: New London (or Connecticut East)
CT-3: New Haven
CT-4: Bridgeport & Stamford
CT-5: Waterbury, Litchfield & Danbury (or Connecticut West. Or you could add New Britain in there somewhere, but the name is pretty unwieldy as it is...)

Notes
1. Note that I haven't tried to include every distinct area within a district in the name; this is standard practice by the Boundary Commision although they stray from it at times (Inverness, some village, another village & a collection of villages where they make whisky)
2. Naming the MA districts was hell. There might be a case for including the names of either Cambridge or Somerville in Boston Central but I don't see it; both are de facto parts of Boston and on their own neither is large enough to be included in the name. Ironically the latter wouldn't be the case in most districts.

[TeePee4Prez]

PA-1 Philadelphia South
PA-2 Philadelphia North
PA-3 Erie and Northwest Pennsylvania
PA-4 Pittsburgh North
PA-5 Central Pennsylvania
PA-6 Berks and Chester
PA-7 Delaware and Chester
PA-8 Bucks
PA-9 Southern Pennsylvania
PA-10 Northeast Pennsylvania
PA-11 Scranton/Wilkes-Barre
PA-12 Southwest Pennsylvania
PA-13 Montgomery and Pennsylvania North
PA-14 Pittsburgh Central
PA-15 Lehigh Valley
PA-16 Lancaster
PA-17 Capital and I-81 OR Capital and Schuykill Valley
PA-18 Pittsburgh South
PA-19 York

I thought mine were a little more detailed and accurate.  PA 7 actually has Delaware and parts of Montgomery.  PA 13 is Eastern Montco and Northeast Philly.