The Gerrymandered States Of America

I convey a feeling that election maps are going to characteristic quite a lot this coming week. So let's larn the ball rolling alongside an interactive map from the Washington Post which gives a gerrymandered marking for each congressional district inwards the United States.

The Washington Post has determined the gerrymandered marking of each district based on the "ratio of the district surface area to the surface area of a circle alongside the same perimeter". The consequence of this stone oil analysis is that districts which follow a regular cast tend to live on to a greater extent than compact together with marking depression on this ratio, spell districts which convey a lot of squiggles together with offshoots marking highly together with are rated equally beingness to a greater extent than gerrymandered.

The How Gerrymandered is your Congressional District? map colors each congressional district based on this gerrymandered score. You tin shipping away mouse-over each district on the map to stance its gerrymandered score, the Earth average marking together with the advert & political party of the district's representative. You tin shipping away besides read a picayune to a greater extent than almost how the scores were determined together with which states convey the most gerrymandered districts inwards the Post's article on America's Most Gerrymandered Congressional Districts.