Here's what I would draw for the New York State Senate. With maps probably coming out next week, I figured this should see the light of day before then, as I put a fair amount of time into it back in August. No incumbents considered, this map would likely turn out a 45-17 Dem supermajority. With incumbents considered, Robach (R) and Carlucci (ID) probably could keep their seats, so the end result is the same. The two Bills are out of luck, as both Perkins and Larkin have their districts diced into five pieces with nowhere really to run. Grisanti, Golden, Martins, Marcellino (all R) and Valesky (ID) are probably out from the beginning due to the odds against them. Klein (ID), Stavinsky (D), Fuschillo, Flanagan, Saland (unless Ball goes after Hayworth), Farley, McDonald, DeFrancisco, Libous and Ranzenhofer (all R) would likely go down in primaries.
My only considerations were partisan and legal. For the legal: I didn't split any county more than four ways unless necessary (only troublesome in Westchester), didn't rely on water contiguity, split very few towns and kept most cities whole, and had seven African American majority, five Hispanic substantial majority, two Hispanic influence, one Asian influence and five white plurality districts (all VAP). A few lovely features: screws Jeff Klein (Serrano would have the Hispanic and AA communities locked down), screws Marty Golden (splits the Orthodox Jewish community eight ways, all justifiable on VRA grounds), Long Island goes from 9-0 GOP to 6-3 Dem, ups the number of Upstate Dems from four to eleven or twelve and six of the seventeen GOP districts have more than a 50% Dem average. The least Dem of the 45 is 56.9% Obama. As for numbering, 1-45 are Dem, 46-62 are GOP. Caveat: 62 may not be the exact number of seats in the next decade.
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