Sunday, November 25, 2018

New House of Representatives by Party

I love to make graphics, and frankly I've never been satisfied with the maps of the congressional districts as they are drawn.   They distort the sense of the representation because so many of the urban (smaller) districts are in the hands of the Democrats and they just don't show like a big red Montana or Wyoming, right?  So this is a partial response to that.  Here I have subdivided the states with more than one representative into the number of districts corresponding to their delegation and of roughly equal size within the state.  It's still doesn't address the imbalance of the big, sparsely populated states, but it does something else that is interesting.  It shows which states have the densest populations.  Like New Jersey!  Good golly.
So now that the dust has settled and all the disputed seats have been certified and called, this is what things look like.

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