GERRYMANDERS

CHALLENGES

THE BAD AND THE UGLY

The Bad and Ugly:

For partisan advantage, with adjustment to separate races:
- Georgia Congressional District 13 (Riverdale & Covington)
- Maryland Congressional District 2 (Dundalk)
- Maryland Congressional District 3 (Annapolis & Pikesville)
- NYS Senate District 34 (Eastchester & Throggs Neck)
- NYS Assembly District 8 (Babylon & Islip Terrace, Long Island)
- NYS Assembly District 9 (Northport, Long Island)
- NYS Assembly District 17 (Mineola, Long Island)
- NYS Assembly District 19 (Wantagh & Seaford, Long Island)
- NYS Assembly District 131 (Chili)
- NYS Assembly District 132 (Irondequoit & Brighton)
For partisan advantage:
- Massachusetts Congressional District 3 (Worcester & Somerset)
- Massachusetts Congressional District 4 (Brookline & New Bedford)
- Massachusetts Congressional District 7 (Malden & Framingham)
- Massachusetts Congressional District 8 (Chelsea & Roxbury)
- Massachusetts Congressional District 9 (Brockton & South Boston)
- New Jersey Congressional District 6 (Asbury Park)
- New Jersey Congressional District 7 (Scotch Plains)
- New Jersey Congressional District 12 (Princeton)
- NYS Congressional District 3 (Levittown & Massapequa, Long Island)
- NYS Congressional District 17 (Williamsbridge & Suffern)
- NYS Congressional District 20 (Upper Hudson Valley)
- NYS Congressional District 22 (Binghamton)
- NYS Congressional District 23 (North Country)
- NYS Congressional District 24 (Utica to Finger Lakes)
- NYS Congressional District 28 (Niagara Falls & Rochester)
- North Carolina Congressional District 2 (Smithfield & Sanford)
- Texas Congressional District 13 (Amarillo & Wichita Falls)
- Texas Congressional District 14 (Victoria & Galveston)
- Texas Congressional District 17 (Waco & Bryan)
- Texas Congressional District 19 (Lubbock & Big Spring)
- Texas Congressional District 22 (Sugar Land & Pearland)
- NYS Assembly District 13 (Plainview & Glen Cove, Long Island), neighbor of District 15
- NYS Assembly District 25 (Jamaica Estates, Long Island)
- NYS Assembly District 26 (Bayside, Long Island)
- NYS Assembly District 27 (College Point, Long Island)
- NYS Assembly District 29 (Rosedale, Long Island)
- NYS Assembly District 30 (Maspeth, Long Island)
- NYS Assembly District 37 (Sunnyside, Long Island)
- NYS Assembly District 48 (Borough Park, Long Island)
- NYS Assembly District 88 (Scarsdale & Eastchester)
- NYS Assembly District 100 (Poughkeepsie & Newburgh)
- NYS Assembly District 101 (New Paltz & Rhinebeck)
- NYS Assembly District 107 (Deposit)
- NYS Assembly District 115 (New Hartford)
- NYS Assembly District 119 (DeWitt & Salina)
- NYS Assembly District 120 (Van Buren & Geddes)
- NYS Assembly District 123 (Finger Lakes)
- NYS Assembly District 124 (Oswego & Lysander)
- NYS Assembly District 127 (Schoharie County)
- NYS Assembly District 129 (Seneca County)

The Ugly:

To separate races:
- Illinois Congressional District 1 (Blue Island & Oak Forest)
- Illinois Congressional District 4 (Cicero)
- Illinois Congressional District 7 (Oak Park)
- Maryland Congressional District 1 (Eastern Shore)
- Maryland Congressional District 4 (Olney)
- New Jersey Congressional District 13 (Union City & Perth Amboy)
- NYS Congressional District 8 (Greenwich Village & Coney Island)
- NYS Congressional District 9 (Forest Hills & Sheepshead Bay, Long Island)
- NYS Congressional District 10 (Bedford & Canarsie)
- NYS Congressional District 12 (Bushwick & Sunset Park)
- North Carolina Congressional District 1 (Roanoke Rapids & New Bern)
- North Carolina Congressional District 3 (Jacksonville & Morehead City)
- North Carolina Congressional District 12 (Winston-Salem)
- Texas Congressional District 18 (Houston)
- Texas Congressional District 29 (Pasadena)
- Virginia Congressional District 3 (Portsmouth & New Kent County)
- NYS Assembly District 11 (Lindenhurst & Amityville, Long Island)
- NYS Assembly District 23 (Howard Beach & Rockaway Park, Long Island)
- NYS Assembly District 31 (Idlewild, Long Island)
- NYS Assembly District 35 (East Elmhurst, Long Island)
- NYS Assembly District 87 (Mount Vernon)

The Good, or at least non-controversial:

NYS Assembly District 20 (Long Beach and Five Towns)
NYS Assembly District 21 (Elmont & Franklin Square, Long Island)
NYS Assembly District 135 (Webster & Perinton)
NYS Assembly District 136 (Steuben County & Yates County)
NYS Assembly District 143 (Cheektowaga & Lancaster)

WHY HAVE SINGLE-MEMBER DISTRICTS AT ALL?

See alternatives at the Center for Voting and Democracy.

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