Alternative Districts: Kansas State Senate
Below you'll find my alternative to the Kansas State Senate district map. As with all of my maps, certain criteria are considered including: compactness, coalescing communities of interest including large minority voting blocs, and respecting political boundaries. Recreating the actual map using Dave’s Redistricting App was not practical since too many districts couldn’t be drawn to match exactly. This will follow a different format than the previous diaries. You’ll see the state’s largest metro areas followed by an overview of the state, all with districts numbered. As with all of my diaries in this series, 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. The district numbering keeps to the previous numbering as closely as possible.
Kansas City-Lawrence-Topeka 2-11, 18-21, 23
Wichita 16, 25-30
Currently, the Kansas State Senate map favors Republicans. While my version increases opportunities in which Democrats can compete and win, mostly in the cities, as you would expect, Republicans would still be favored to consistently win majorities. Still, my version improves the overall appropriateness of the districts by using the criteria mentioned in the introduction, which makes the chamber more representative of the state.
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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/…
Links to the Oklahoma maps:
Alternative Districts: Oklahoma State Senate
Alternative Districts: Oklahoma State House of Representatives