Pennsylvania's Non-Gerrymandered Map

One lawsuit of redrawing electoral districts to endeavour to mash all the voters of i political political party into i district is that y'all halt upwards alongside unopen to really oddly shaped districts. Back inwards 2014 the Washington Post mapped The New Pennsylvania House Districts Are In. We Review the Mapmakers’ Choices. Yesterday the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued a novel congressional map to supercede the i gerrymandered yesteryear Pennsylvania Republicans.

The Time's article includes a serial of maps which permit y'all to compare the Republican gerrymandered districts alongside the Supreme Court's redrawn districts. When switching betwixt the 2 maps for each district y'all tin await out for irregular shapes where boundary lines are snaking out to capture neighborhoods that don't seem to hold out a natural fit. The Supreme Court's district maps do seem to hold out much to a greater extent than compact than those drawn yesteryear the Republicans. The Supreme Court maps don't convey equally many "squiggles as well as offshoots as well as tentacle-looking protuberances" that are mutual to gerrymandered electoral districts.

The Washington Post map of America's close gerrymandered districts gives the sometime Pennsylvania congressional districts gerrymander scores generally inwards the 80's & 90's. Scores that signal the districts convey been highly gerrymandered to favor i political political party over another. The fact that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has redrawn a much fairer map doesn't appear to hold out really practiced tidings for the Republicans. However nosotros volition convey to hold back until the elections afterward this twelvemonth to encounter which political party actually wins inwards each novel Pennsylvania district.