Alternative Districts: Kansas State House of Representatives
Below you'll find my alternative to the Kansas State House of Representatives 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
Manhattan-Junction City
Northeast
Southeast
Wichita
Central
South Central
Northwest
Southwest
Currently, the Kansas State House of Representatives map favors Republicans. My version improves the overall appropriateness of the districts by using the criteria mentioned in the introduction: compactness, coalescing communities of interest including large minority voting blocs, and respecting political boundaries. All of this 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/…
Link to Kansas Senate map:
Alternative Districts: Kansas State Senate
Links to the Oklahoma maps:
Alternative Districts: Oklahoma State Senate
Alternative Districts: Oklahoma State House of Representatives