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Wednesday, December 2, 2020

How Gerrymandered Is Your State?


PlanScore has mapped the marking of gerrymandering inwards all l states inwards the USA. PlanScore includes a comprehensive historical dataset of partisan gerrymandering, thence yous tin examine the history of gerrymandering inwards each solid set down as well as which political parties the districts accept been gerrymandered to support.

The PlanScore choropleth map shows the marking of gerrymandering inwards each solid set down for both the U.S. House as well as State House elections. The darker the blood-red or bluish colors on the map as well as then the to a greater extent than skewed the districts are towards the represented political party. If yous conduct a solid set down on the map yous tin persuasion a to a greater extent than detailed study on the partisan bias inwards that solid set down as well as how that compares to the marking of gerrymandering inwards other states.

PlanScore has too developed a scoring service which allows yous to seek how fair or gerrymandered novel district plans are. To role this service yous simply remove to upload a shapefile or GeoJSON file of a district plan. PlanScore volition as well as then disclose the levels of the plan’s underlying partisan skew, showing how much the programme has been gerrymandered.

Also See

What's Your Vote Worth - an interactive story map which explores the history of America's voting system, the correct to vote as well as how voter representation is skewed nether the acquaint arrangement as well as map. The story map includes a choropleth persuasion of how much i vote is worth inwards each state.

The Gerrymandering Project - FiveThirtyEight has had a become at redrawing America's voting districts for themselves. In the Atlas of Redistricting FiveThirtyEight has created a pose out of novel congressional maps, each designed to present how districts tin live on redrawn to favor dissimilar political parties.

How Gerrymandered is your Congressional District? - this 2014 map from the Washington Post colors each congressional district based on its gerrymandered score (determined yesteryear the Post's analysis).