Assessing congressional districting in Maine and New Hampshire
Combinatorics
2020-11-13 v1 Physics and Society
Abstract
We use voting precinct and election data to analyze the political geography of New Hampshire and Maine. We find that the location of dividing line between Congressional districts in both states are significantly different than what we would expect, which we argue is likely due to incumbent gerrymandering. We also discuss the limitations of classical fairness measures for plans with only two districts.
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@article{arxiv.2011.06555,
title = {Assessing congressional districting in Maine and New Hampshire},
author = {Sara Asgari and Quinn Basewitz and Ethan Bergmann and Jackson Brogsol and Nathaniel Cox and Diana Davis and Martina Kampel and Becca Keating and Katie Knox and Angus Lam and Jorge Lopez-Nava and Jennifer Paige and Nathan Pitock and Victoria Song and Dylan Torrance},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.06555},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
19 pages, 12 figures; comments and further research questions welcome