Connecticut on British/Canadian districts

[Verily]

Based on the 2000 Census, Connecticut gets 34 districts, each containing somewhere around 102,000 people. Districts are based on town, with minimal town splitting; with only a handful of exceptions (Hamden, Danbury, Stamford obviously because it cuts off Greenwich), the only municipalities which were split were those too large to fit in a district by themselves (New Haven, Bridgeport, Waterbury, Hartford; Waterbury could technically have gotten its own district at ~107,000 people, but the yellow district next to it needed some population).

The districts on here range in size from 96370 to 108220; you could easily fix some of the bigger discrepancies with more town splitting. In fact, the largest and smallest districts abut one another. (The blue district containing New London is the largest; the yellow district to its west containing Old Saybrook is the smallest.)



I'll put a named map up tomorrow, then maybe I'll do the way each district voted in 2008.

[Verily]

And here's a version with no town lines, only district borders:

[Bacon King]

Awesome!

You can remove the thing about the fish dumb test by deleting the second image code, by the way. Most annoying thing about imageshack.

[Verily]

You can remove the thing about the fish dumb test by deleting the second image code, by the way. Most annoying thing about imageshack.

Thanks.

[Verily]

I'm an insomniac, so here's the labeled map. I know it's messy.

[Bacon King]

Hey, I'm not complaining. Having trouble sleeping myself.

But you know, two more seats there and you'd be districting the CT State Senate.

Still an awesome venture nonetheless.

[Platypus]

I've stolne your idea and done Montana. It got 9 seats of 99,000-101,000 each...ish...and I tried to keep counties together 100%



D1 (Red): 98,976
D2 (Pale Green ): 99,686
D3: (Yellow): 99,771 (takes 44,200 from Flathead County)
D4 (Dark Blue): 99,612 (takes 30,271 from Flathead County)
D5 (Brown):  99,433
D6 (Light Blue): 101,311
D7 (Dark Green): 100,868
D8 (Grey): 101,000 (takes 101,000 from Yellowstone County)
D9 (Pink): 101,540 (takes 28,352 from Yellowstone County)

As for names:

D1: Montana Rockies South
D2: Missoula-Mineral
D3: Montana Rockies North
D4: Rankin (after Jeanette Rankin)
D5: Northern Montana
D6: Central Montana
D7: Murray (after James E Murray)
D8: Billings
D9: Williams (after Pat Williams)

[Platypus]

I've also done Iowa, with 29 districts. Again attempted to keep Counties whole but it wasn't easy...especially in East Iowa.



Purple D1: 103449 Adair-Union
Yellow D2:  100877 Pottawattamie-Shelby
Lime D3: 102117 Audubon-Monona
Grey D4: 103877 Woodbury
Red D5: 100675 Clay-Sioux
Blue D6: 102366 Buena Vista-Sac
Brown D7: 103187 Calhoun-Wright
Pink D8: 101479 Boone-Madison
Orange D9: 100500 Polk part 1
Black D10: 100500 Polk part 2
Green D11: 100500 Polk part 3
White D12: 100101 (73101 from Polk, 27000 from Warren)
Olive D13: 100915 Appanoose-Wayne (13671 from Warren)
Purple D14: 102099 Iowa-Poweshiek (19000 from Marshall)
Yellow D15: 100292 Story (20311 from Marshall)
Lime D16: 99806 Bremer-Grundy
Grey D17: 98985 Cerro Gordo-Worth
Red D18: 102086 Allamakee-Winneshiek (23000 from Black Hawk)
Blue D19: 101512 Black Hawk (101512 from Black hawk)
Brown D20: 101411 Benton-Tama (3500 from Black Hawk, 55000 from Linn)
Pink D21: 101000 Linn (101000 from Linn)
Orange D22: 101204 Clayton-Jones (35701 from Linn, 8200 from Dubuque)
Black D23: 101239 Jackson (80943 from Dubuque)
Green D24: 100149 Clinton (50000 from Scott)
White D25: 101000 Scott (101000 from Scott)
Olive D26: 100060 (7668 from Scott, 10500 from Johnson, 9800 from Washington)
Red D27: 100506 Johnson (100506 from Johnson)
Blue D28: 99788 Davis-Wapello (10870 from Washington)
Grey D29: 100739 Des Moines-Lee

[Platypus]

OK, so one more...Utah



UTAH

Red D1: 99484
Blue D2: 101135
Yellow D3: 102032
Green D4: 101480 (16000 from Utah County, 1000 from Weber County)
Purple D5: 100500 (100500 from Utah County)
White D6: 100500 (100500 from Utah County)
Pink D7: 100500 (100500 from Utah County)
Black D8: 100423 (51036 from Utah County, 49387 from Salt Lake County)
Orange D9: 100500 (100500 from Salt Lake County)
Brown D10: 100500 (100500 from Salt Lake County)
Lime D11: 100500 (100500 from Salt Lake County)
Red D12: 100500 (100500 from Salt Lake County)
Blue D13: 100500 (100500 from Salt Lake County)
Yellow D14: 100500 (100500 from Salt Lake County)
Green D15: 101000 (101000 from Salt Lake County)
Purple D16: 100500 (100500 from Salt Lake County)
White D17: 101236 (44500 from Salt Lake County, 27000 from Davis County)
Pink D18: 101500 (101500 from Davis County)
Black D19: 101500 (101500 from Davis County)
Orange D20: 102527 (8994 from Davis County, 93533 from Weber County)
Brown D21: 101000 (101000 from Weber County)
Lime D22: 101481 (1000 from Weber County)

[Verily]

Very cool.  I'd like to contribute New Jersey, if that's cool.

I did a version of NJ (by municipality) at one point, although you're welcome to do another. New Jersey and the states of New England are much easier because you can divide by town; most states have large unincorporated areas, but all land in NJ and New England (outside of Maine) is incorporated.

[Хahar 🤔]

I call Vermont.

[Josh/Devilman88]

How many people should be in one District?

[Hash]

How many people should be in one District?

100k ish.

[afleitch]

I call the Dakota's!

[Sbane]

How many people should be in one District?

100k ish.

Wow California would be real interesting....many districts would consist of just one huge suburb. Irvine will have 2 districts and I think Mission Viejo would get their own as well.

[Brittain33]

Wow California would be real interesting....many districts would consist of just one huge suburb. Irvine will have 2 districts and I think Mission Viejo would get their own as well.

The legislature would be larger than Canada's parliament.

[cannonia]

Wow California would be real interesting....many districts would consist of just one huge suburb. Irvine will have 2 districts and I think Mission Viejo would get their own as well.

The legislature would be larger than Canada's parliament.

It should be.

[Hatman 🍁]

Districts in Australia, Canada and the UK are oddly similar in populations. However, all three countries have different naming schemes.

Britain uses directions a lot, and connects place names with "and"
Canada uses emdashes to connect place names, and leaves out directions most of the times in connector names.
Australia likes to use just one name for their districts, often a surname of someone important of a locality.

[Platypus]

Districts in Australia, Canada and the UK are oddly similar in populations. However, all three countries have different naming schemes.

Britain uses directions a lot, and connects place names with "and"
Canada uses emdashes to connect place names, and leaves out directions most of the times in connector names.
Australia likes to use just one name for their districts, often a surname of someone important of a locality.

...and in all cases there are exceptions

I basically figure that for this if there is an obvious name for the district based on geography (for example, the large red district in my Utah map could be Eastern Utah)it should be used, but linking towns togeher but excluding the rest ie, say, Sioux City-Ames or whatever in Iowa) should be avoided.

[afleitch]

Districts in Australia, Canada and the UK are oddly similar in populations. However, all three countries have different naming schemes.

Britain uses directions a lot, and connects place names with "and"
Canada uses emdashes to connect place names, and leaves out directions most of the times in connector names.
Australia likes to use just one name for their districts, often a surname of someone important of a locality.

The localities within Connecticut sound very British.

[Хahar 🤔]

I like the Birtish naming system the best, though I do like the Canadian custom of using the word "Centre".

[Platypus]

I like the Birtish naming system the best, though I do like the Canadian custom of using the word "Centre".

Wrong. Australian or bust

[muon2]

For many US areas I would use none of the aforementioned naming schemes. To me the most natural would be to use a dominant geographical feature - river, valley, lake, hill, or mountain. Sometimes a dominant town is appropriate. A look at the names of regional shopping malls is not far removed from the natural names I would assign to constituencies of the type in this thread.