FAIR DISTRICTING REAPPORTIONMENT PAGE
Contents
Why have districts at all?
Standards for drawing districts
- American:
- British: rules of Boundary Commission for England
- Values employed by Ward Cleaver, in approximate order of application:
- Contiguity
- Equal population (±2%)
- Preserving community integrity
- dividing as few communities as possible
- dividing each community into as few parts as possible
- dividing larger rather than smaller communities
- Compactness
- minimal ratio of length to width of districts
- Uniting communities of interest
- Social characteristics
- ethnicity
- economics
- education
- Integrity of boundaries
- Numbering:
- Districts are named as well as numbered.
- District numbers are assigned after districts are drawn, not before.
- If numbers are immediately sequential, they usually appear in districts with a boundary in common.
- Units of government usually have a series of sequential numbers assigned to their districts (e.g., 3, 4, 5).
- Small districts are given smaller numbers than large districts, to allow the characters the best fit on a map.
- Objectives disregarded by Ward Cleaver:
- Continuity
- Attempts to preserve districts of the past deny the right of the present to full representation.
- Incumbent protection
- Keeping legislators in office whose base has lost significance delays passage of innovative legislation.
by location
- Proposed equal districts for election of senators based on 2000 population
- Proposed congressional districts based on 1980 population for most states
- Proposed congressional districts based on 2000 & 1980 population
- Proposed congressional districts based on 2000 & 1980 populations
- Proposed congressional districts based on 2000 population
- Proposed congressional districts based on 2000 & 1980 population
- Proposed congressional districts based on 2000 & 1980 population
- Proposed congressional districts based on 2000 population
- Proposed congressional districts based on 2000 population
- Proposed congressional districts based on 2000 & 1990 & 1980 populations
- Statewide
- New York City
- Nassau County, Long Island
- County Board of Legislators
- 7 districts, based on 2000 population
- 9 districts, based on 2000 population
- 12 districts, based on 2000 population
- 15 districts, based on 2000 & 1970 populations
- 19 districts, based on 2010 & 2000 populations
- Town of Hempstead, Long Island
- 2010 & 2000 & 1990 Town council
- After two centuries of at-large elections, the town is under court order to create six council districts. See proposals based on 1990 populations
- Town of North Hempstead, Long Island
- Town of Oyster Bay, Long Island
- Suffolk County, Long Island
- Districts for county board of legislators:
- 11 districts, based on 2000 population
- 17 districts, based on 2000 population
- 18 districts, based on 2010 & 2000 & 1990 populations
- 19 districts, based on 2000 population
- Town of Babylon, Long Island
- Town of Brookhaven, Long Island
- Town of Huntington, Long Island
- Town of Islip, Long Island
- Town of Smithtown, Long Island
- North Carolina congressional districts
- Proposed congressional districts based on 2000 & 1980 population
- Proposed Mississippi congressional districts based on 2010 population
- Proposed Alabama congressional districts based on 2010 population
- Proposed Maine congressional districts based on 2000 & 1990 & 1980 population
by legislative body
- Franklin County, Virginia
- Nassau County, Long Island
- 7 districts, based on 2000 population
- 9 districts, based on 2000 population
- 12 districts, based on 2000 population
- 15 districts, based on 2000 & 1970 populations
- 19 districts, based on 2010 & 2000 populations
- Suffolk County, Long Island, based on 2010 & 2000 & 1990 populations:
- 9 districts, based on 2000 population
- 11 distrcts, based on 2000 population
- 17 districts, based on 2000 population
- 18 districts, based on 2010 & 2000 populations
- 19 districts, based on 2000 population
- 2000 Town of Babylon, Long Island
- 2000 Town of Brookhaven, Long Island
- 2000 Town of Huntington, Long Island
- 2010 & 2000 & 1990 Town of Hempstead, Long Island
- 2000 Town of Islip, Long Island
- 2000 & 1990 & 1980 & 1970 & 1960 Town of North Hempstead, Long Island
- 2010 & 2000 Town of Oyster Bay, Long Island
- 2000 Town of Smithtown, Long Island
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Last revised: 13 December 2011
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