Washington Redistricting - combined western WA legislative map

Vanisaac

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Saturday December 17, 2011 · 3:22 AM PST

2011/12/17 · 03:22

Just wanted to let everyone know that the Washington Redistricting Commission just release a preliminary map of legislative districts for western Washington. I have taken the liberty of combining the released maps into a single map.

http://www.scribd.com/...

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Thursday July 07, 2011 · 8:14 AM PDT

2011/07/07 · 08:14

I've been thinking about how to do a Dem gerrymander of Washington without making it look like a Dem gerrymander, and accomplish a couple of goals: first, to create a majority minority district in south Seattle/south King county; second, to chip away at Dave Reichert's support and untangle the 9th and the 8th from their odd embrace; third, shunt as much of red Lewis county as possible into a third district that has to take in 150k people from east of the Cascades. Most importantly, it retains every incumbent in the same district, except for Inslee, who is running for governor. The results are as follows:

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Washington Redistricting - combined western WA legislative map

WA redistricting: majority minority and coast/Olympia 10th