Former Virginia Democratic nominee for Governor, State Senator Creigh Deeds, has been very actively promoting a bill in the Virginia Senate that would reform the process for redistricting in Virginia. The official summary of his bill (SB 173) reads:
Establishes a seven-member temporary commission to prepare redistricting plans in 2011 and each tenth year thereafter for [...]
The Illinois League of Women Voters, in conjunction with Republican leadership in the state legislature, kicked off a new movement for redistricting reform in Illinois called the “Illinois Fair Map Amendment.” Proposed on February 18, the constitutional amendment will be simultaneously introduced as a bill in the Illinois General Assembly and as a petition for an [...]
30,275 people applied for the 14 slots on the Citizens Redistricting Commission (CRC). As the Rose Institute reported earlier, the application deadline was extended from February 12th to February 16th because of the intense interest. The Citizens Redistricting Commission is entrusted with the task of redrawing California’s Legislative Districts in 2011, and is a result of [...]
The Rose Institute’s recently released report on Florida’s upcoming elections and redistricting has been featured in several major blogs over the last week. FLApolitics, one of the top political blogs in Florida, wrote an article pulling numerous quotes from our series and noted that it is the “perfect fix for a political junkie.” SwingStateProject.com also [...]
Rose Institute Fellow Douglas Johnson was interviewed today about gerrymandering for CNN’s “American Morning” show. The topic is redistricting. The piece — assuming it makes it past the editing room — will air Thursday, February 25th at 6am EST, and at various other times throughout the day.
The clip should be available online after it first [...]
Florida redistricting after the 2010 census is likely to be a partisan struggle. The state is likely to gain an additional Congressional seat (for a total of 26). Despite having more registered Democrats than Republicans in Florida, the state government is dominated by Republicans. The state Senate has twenty-six Republicans to fourteen Democrats and the [...]
The Miami-Fort Lauderdale- Palm Beach area includes the 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, and 22nd districts. The more southern 18th and 21st are held by Republicans while the rest are held by Democrats. All, however, are below the ideal population level, some by a considerable amount.
Florida’s 17th congressional district is located at the [...]
Our southern Florida region contains five districts: 13th, 14th, 16th, 23rd and 25th. Four seats are held by Republicans and over-populated while the 23rd is held by a Democrat and relatively under-populated.
Florida’s 13th congressional district stretches along the Gulf Coast from just below Tampa Bay to Charlotte harbor. It includes all of Sarasota, DeSoto and [...]
Central Florida includes the 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, and 15th districts. It is centered on Tampa and St. Petersburg in the west, though some districts stretch across inland Florida to the Space Coast along the Atlantic.
Florida’s 9th congressional district includes the area north of St. Petersburg and north and east of Tampa. It is also [...]
Northern Florida contains seven districts: the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th and 24th. The 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th are currently held by Republicans and all but the 3rd are over the ideal population for a district.
The 3rd lies in the center of the area. It was drawn in 1992 to be North Florida’s black-majority [...]
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