Maryland ungerrymandered map

[Skill and Chance]

This past decade, it would have been a 4D/3R/1T map.  Given how far left MD-06 and the outer DC suburbs in general moved last cycle, there probably isn't enough there to make a 3rd R district anymore, so it would probably be 5D/2R/1T.  MD still has a huge Republican geographical advantage.

[Skill and Chance]

This past decade, it would have been a 4D/3R/1T map.  Given how far left MD-06 and the outer DC suburbs in general moved last cycle, there probably isn't enough there to make a 3rd R district anymore, so it would probably be 5D/2R/1T.  MD still has a huge Republican geographical advantage.

It would take a Republican gerrymander to draw a 4D/3R/1T map.

Not really, I can do a map that like that with rectangular districts and 2008 numbers.  The tossup seat would be Lean D by 2016, though and the 3rd R district would be close to flipping now.

[Skill and Chance]

Here is version Stephen Wolf did at DKE:

That looks great. Gee, isn't it obvious that if state legislators were required to come up with maps like that, it would make them feel too bored?

A slightly different version of Districts 2 and 3 here makes one of them a toss up seat Obama won by less than his nationwide margin in 2008, but it would have swung toward Obama in 2012 and 2016 would seal the deal as a Lean Dem seat.