Alternative Districts: Oklahoma State House of Representatives
Below you'll find my alternative to the Oklahoma State House of Representatives district map contrasted with the actual map. My version displays a better way of keeping together communities of interest, while respecting political and geographical boundaries. My version also improves minority opportunity districts by reducing packing. Recreating the actual map using Dave’s Redistricting App was not practical since too many districts couldn’t be drawn to match exactly, which caused major discrepancies that had significant effects on district demographics. The district numbering keeps to the previous numbering as closely as possible. This will follow a different format than the previous diaries. What you’ll see are that the images of each region will include some overlapping districts from other regions. This is done to help in getting a comprehensive perspective of the map. Also, there’s no county breakdown. As always the data for each district is assembled at the end of the diary using spreadsheets via Stephen Wolf’s guide, which is cited alongside my other sources.
Northwest 4-13, 24, 86
Tulsa
Southwest
Oklahoma City
Southwest
Northwest
Overview
Oklahoma Republicans drew the current gerrymandered district map for the Oklahoma House of Representatives. This has ensured that they would win more districts than they probably should based on partisanship. Also, some districts minority opportunity districts are packed non-White voters. My version presents a better way of drawing the map the improve representation by using criteria such as: compactness, coalescing communities of interest including large minority voting blocs, and respecting political boundaries.
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The maps were created using Dave’s Redistricting App: gardow.com/…
2016 Election Results were acquired via Dave’s Redistricting App 2020 update
The charts and data were assembled using spreadsheets via Stephen Wolf’s guide: www.dailykos.com/…
The Statistical Atlas was used to match the district numbering: statisticalatlas.com/…
Link to Oklahoma Senate map
Alternative Districts: Oklahoma State Senate
Links to Texas maps
Alternative Districts: Texas State Senate
Alternative Districts: Texas State House of Representatives