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« on: May 18, 2020, 01:38:31 PM »

Just like the UK constituencies, how would it pan out? Care to cite example of District names?
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« Reply #1 on: May 18, 2020, 03:06:01 PM »

Gerrymandering and decade redistricting would make this a doozy.
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« Reply #2 on: May 18, 2020, 03:35:54 PM »

Gerrymandering and decade redistricting would make this a doozy.
Yeah, it would only work if districts were drawn with COIs heavily in mind. Smaller states would be easier to name, as redistricting doesn't completely change the map and even district numbers (here's looking at you California) every ten years. One easy district name that came to mind is Nancy Pelosi's 12th district in California since it's wholly in the City of San Francisco and covers all of it except Southwest corner of the city.
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« Reply #3 on: May 18, 2020, 03:37:54 PM »
« Edited: May 18, 2020, 04:00:10 PM by lfromnj »

Texas is probably the best state that tries to keep districts in the same region as much as possible so you can still reasonably compare TX 7th from 1988 to now.(most Republican district in the nation to now a swing area) However the problem is the gerrymander has made a lot of them far too ugly.
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« Reply #4 on: May 18, 2020, 03:39:52 PM »

This only works well for states with decent districts.

PA-01: Bucks
PA-02: Philadelphia East
PA-03: Philadelphia West
PA-04: Montgomery
PA-05: Philadelphia South and Delaware
PA-06: Chester and Reading
PA-07: Lehigh Valley
PA-08: Wyoming Valley and the Poconos
PA-09: Susquehanna and Lebanon?
PA-10: Harrisburg-York
PA-11: Lancaster-York
PA-12: Northern Tier
PA-13: Allegheny Mountains?
PA-14: Mon Valley
PA-15: Don't have any clue for this district, sorry
PA-16: Erie-Butler
PA-17: Beaver-North Alleghany?
PA-18: Pittsburgh
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« Reply #5 on: May 18, 2020, 03:46:22 PM »

What would CA-47 be named?
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« Reply #6 on: May 18, 2020, 03:56:40 PM »

Gerrymandering and decade redistricting would make this a doozy.

Decade redistricting does not really make things that much harder. AThe UK is supposed to redistrict every 8-12 years; though they have stuck with the same districts since 2005 at this point.

Gerrymandering does make this impossible indeed though; and in fact giving districts names might make gerrymandering a bit harder to do (but definitely not impossible at all)
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« Reply #7 on: May 18, 2020, 04:18:36 PM »

Anyways, here goes my attempt on a couple states with "clean" districts, generally just calling them after the biggest town in the district:

Connecticut
CT-01: Hartford
CT-02: New London? Connecticut East? No idea tbh
CT-03: New Haven
CT-04: Stamford and Bridgeport
CT-05: Litchfield

Indiana
IN-01: Gary
IN-02: South Bend
IN-03: Fort Wayne
IN-04: Lafayette
IN-05: Hamilton
IN-06: Southeast Indiana?
IN-07: Indianapolis
IN-08: Evansville
IN-09: Bloomington

Iowa
IA-01: Cedar Rapids
IA-02: Davenport
IA-03: Des Moines
IA-04: Sioux City

Kansas
KS-01: Kansan Plains
KS-02: Topeka
KS-03: Kansas City West
KS-04: Wichita
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« Reply #8 on: May 18, 2020, 04:19:18 PM »

VA-01 Tidewater
VA-02 Virginia Beach
VA-03 Newport News and Portsmouth
VA-04 Chesapeake and Richmond
VA-05 Charlottesville and Albemarle
VA-06 Shenandoah
VA-07 Henrico and Chesterfield
VA-08 Arlington and Alexandria
VA-09 Roanoke
VA-10 Loudoun and Manassas
VA-11 Fairfax
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« Reply #9 on: May 18, 2020, 04:24:49 PM »

Anyways, here goes my attempt on a couple states with "clean" districts, generally just calling them after the biggest town in the district:

Indiana
IN-01: Gary
IN-02: South Bend
IN-03: Fort Wayne
IN-04: Lafayette
IN-05: Hamilton
IN-06: Southeast Indiana?
IN-07: Indianapolis
IN-08: Evansville
IN-09: Bloomington


IN-01: Gary and Hammond
IN-02: South Bend and Elkhart
IN-03: Fort Wayne
IN-04: Tippecanoe
IN-05: Fishers and Carmel
IN-06: Muncie and Southeast Indiana
IN-07: Indianapolis
IN-08: Terre Haute and Evansville
IN-09: Bloomington


anyway, most of UK consitituencies usually have 2 places in their names.
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« Reply #10 on: May 18, 2020, 04:26:12 PM »

Sounds fun. I'll do California.

CA-01: Shasta-Cascade
CA-02: Redwood Coast
CA-03: Delta and Valley
CA-04: Tahoe-Tuolumne
CA-05: Napa-Carquinez
CA-06: Sacramento
CA-07: Folsom and Elk Grove
CA-08: Mojave-Sierra
CA-09: Stockton and Delta
CA-10: Modesto and Tracy
CA-11: Contra Costa
CA-12: Golden Gate
CA-13: Alameda North
CA-14: Peninsula North
CA-15: Alameda South
CA-16: San Joaquin North
CA-17: Silicon Valley
CA-18: Peninsula South
CA-19: San Jose
CA-20: Monterey Bay
CA-21: San Joaquin West
CA-22: San Joaquin East
CA-23: San Joaquin South
CA-24: Santa Barbara-San Luis Obispo
CA-25: Santa Susana-Antelope
CA-26: Oxnard-Thousand Oaks
CA-27: San Gabriel West
CA-28: Arroyo Verdugo-Hollywood
CA-29: San Fernando East
CA-30: San Fernando West
CA-31: San Bernardino
CA-32: San Gabriel East
CA-33: Santa Monica Bay
CA-34: Downtown Los Angeles
CA-35: Pomona and Fontana
CA-36: Coachella Valley
CA-37: South and West Los Angeles
CA-38: Norwalk and Whittier
CA-39: Fullerton-Chino-Walnut
CA-40: South and East Los Angeles
CA-41: Riverside
CA-42: Corona and Murrietta
CA-43: South Bay
CA-44: San Pedro and Carson
CA-45: Irvine and Foothills
CA-46: Central Orange County
CA-47: Long Beach and Garden Grove
CA-48: Orange Coast
CA-49: Palomar-Pendleton
CA-50: Escondido and Temecula
CA-51: Salton-San Diego
CA-52: San Diego West
CA-53: San Diego East
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« Reply #11 on: May 18, 2020, 04:28:10 PM »

WI-01 Kenosha and Racine
WI-02 Madison
WI-03 LaCrosse and Eau Claire
WI-04 Milwaukee
WI-05 Waukesha
WI-06 Fond du Lac and OshKosh
WI-07 Superior and Wausau
WI-08 Appleton and Green Bay
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« Reply #12 on: May 18, 2020, 04:31:41 PM »

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15U-PY8qJ3N0RYw0wRZh5MNzktRH_7yIUxofaRitZt6I/edit#gid=0

Here's my take, I had this sitting in my drive for a bit. Discuss what you would change.
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« Reply #13 on: May 18, 2020, 04:34:25 PM »
« Edited: May 18, 2020, 04:38:05 PM by iceman »

WA-01 Bellingham
WA-02 Everett and Puget Sound
WA-03 Vancouver
WA-04 Yakima
WA-05 Spokane
WA-06 Olympic Peninsula
WA-07 Seattle
WA-08 Auburn and Sammamish
WA-09 Puyallup and Tacoma
WA-10 Olympia
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« Reply #14 on: May 18, 2020, 07:36:14 PM »

NJ is actually fairly easy.

NJ-01: Camden
NJ-02: Atlantic
NJ-03: Burlington
NJ-04: Monmouth
NJ-05: North Bergen-Sussex
NJ-06: Middlesex
NJ-07: Central
NJ-08: Hudson
NJ-09: South Bergen-Paterson
NJ-10: Newark
NJ-11: Morris
NJ-12: Mercer
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« Reply #15 on: May 18, 2020, 08:07:15 PM »

This only works well for states with decent districts.

PA-01: Bucks
PA-02: Philadelphia East
PA-03: Philadelphia West
PA-04: Montgomery
PA-05: Philadelphia South and Delaware
PA-06: Chester and Reading
PA-07: Lehigh Valley
PA-08: Wyoming Valley and the Poconos
PA-09: Susquehanna and Lebanon?
PA-10: Harrisburg-York
PA-11: Lancaster-York
PA-12: Northern Tier
PA-13: Allegheny Mountains?
PA-14: Mon Valley
PA-15: Don't have any clue for this district, sorry
PA-16: Erie-Butler
PA-17: Beaver-North Alleghany?
PA-18: Pittsburgh

For PA-15 I'd just go for some counties in the district, like "Elk-Cambria-East Butler." The rest of these seem pretty good
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« Reply #16 on: May 18, 2020, 08:32:43 PM »

SC-01: Charleston Coast
SC-02: Aiken-Outer Columbia
SC-03: Anderson-Laurens-Greenwood
SC-04: Greenville-Spartanburg
SC-05: Rock Hill
SC-06: Lowcountry-Inner Charleston-Inner Columbia
SC-07: Myrtle Beach

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« Reply #17 on: May 18, 2020, 08:40:04 PM »

Just like the UK constituencies, how would it pan out? Care to cite example of District names?
Texas used the Australian style, including

Austin
Baugh
Borden
Bowie
Bush
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DeBakey
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Eisenhower
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« Reply #18 on: May 18, 2020, 08:48:57 PM »

IL-01: Hyde Park and Blue Island
IL-02: South Shore
IL-03: Midway
IL-04: Belmont Cragin and Cicero
IL-05: Lincoln Park and O'Hare
IL-06: Wheaton and Barrington
IL-07: Loop and Maywood
IL-08: Schaumburg
IL-09: Uptown and Evanston
IL-10: Waukegan
IL-11: Aurora and Joliet
IL-12: East St. Louis
IL-13: Champaign and Springfield
IL-14: McHenry and Plainfield
IL-15: Danville and Metropolis
IL-16: LaSalle
IL-17: Rock Island
IL-18: Peoria and Quincy
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« Reply #19 on: May 18, 2020, 08:55:02 PM »
« Edited: May 18, 2020, 10:22:34 PM by Speaker of the Lincoln Council S019 »

NJ-01: Camden-Glassboro
NJ-02: South Jersey
NJ-03: Burlington-Ocean
NJ-04: Monmouth
NJ-05: Wantage-Paramus
NJ-06: New Brunswick-Sandy Hook
NJ-07: Hunterdon-Somerset
NJ-08: Weehawken-Elizabeth
NJ-09: Paterson-Edgewater
NJ-10: Newark
NJ-11: Morris
NJ-12: Mercer-Middlesex

Something like this, and these are quite bad
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« Reply #20 on: May 18, 2020, 09:15:03 PM »

i dare any brave soul to attempt this with Ohio.
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« Reply #21 on: May 18, 2020, 09:35:00 PM »

OK-01: Tulsa and Bartlesville
OK-02: McAlester and Tahlequah
OK-03: Stillwater and El Reno
OK-04: Norman and Lawton
OK-05: Oklahoma City and Shawnee

Note: In doing these I tried to choose significant cities that demonstrated the geographic breadth of the district, rather than the largest cities in the district. I am not sure how the UK goes about choosing these names.
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« Reply #22 on: May 18, 2020, 09:42:50 PM »

WY-AL: Wyoming
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« Reply #23 on: May 18, 2020, 09:47:09 PM »


Good job trying this.  The one thing I would note is that no one would ever call Franklin a part of West Tennessee.  It's always considered Middle Tennessee (and the Grand Divisions have real meaning here).  Here would be my TN names:

TN-1: Tri-Cities and Smoky Mountains
TN-2: Knoxville-Maryville
TN-3: Chattanooga-Athens (that's a terrible looking district for not obvious partisan reasons)
TN-4: Murfreesboro-South Cumberland
TN-5: Nashville
TN-6: Lebanon-North Cumberland
TN-7: Williamson-Clarksville
TN-8: Jackson-Germantown
TN-9: Memphis
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« Reply #24 on: May 18, 2020, 10:31:00 PM »
« Edited: May 18, 2020, 10:34:42 PM by libertpaulian »

IN-01: Calumet
IN-02: South Bend
IN-03: Fort Wayne
IN-04: Tippecanoe
IN-05: Hamilton
IN-06: Muncie and Columbus
IN-07: Indianapolis
IN-08: The Wabash
IN-09: Bloomington and Jeffersonville
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