[EL] Mid-Decade State Legislative Redistricting, especially TX

[Carl Klarner]

Hi David,

I only comment on state legislative redistricting below.

TX HS districts that were redrawn in 2014.
42
90
99
103
115
133
137
149
17 were technically redrawn, but some had over 98% of their VAP the
same.  The eight above are the ones that had less than 98% the same
people.  I can dig up all 17 if you want.

Other state legislatures that redistricted mid-decade not on your list

FL State Senate: all seats up in 2016, all redrawn

Four state legislatures redistricted LATE.  So they didn't redrawn for
2012, but did for 2014.  House and senate for each one.
KY
ME (as usual)
MT (as usual)
PA

MS might be considered late.  It didn't redistrict for the 2011
elections, but did for the 2015 elections.  Both it's house and senate
have four year non-staggered terms.  States with odd-year state
legislative elections generally redistrict for election years that end
in "1."

(In a sense, AL and MD redistricted late, since they didn't have
elections in 2014, but that's not really late.  Just make sure you
code them appropriately.)

It may be that some of the GA house and senate seats were technically
redrawn, but the people were mostly the same, I can't remember.  The
ones I have coded as being redrawn are as follows (and they would use
the same 98% cutoff).  0 = house, 1 = senate
0 27
0 30
0 59
0 60
0 73
0 104
0 105
0 109
0 110
0 111
0 130
0 165
0 166
0 176
0 177
1 5
1 7
1 13
1 48

Last, not all seats in AK were redrawn in 2014.  Some also weren't
redrawn, but were assigned new letters or numbers.  See the attached
Excel file.  redist=2 means a district kept the same locale, even if
assigned a new designation, and redist1 tells you what the old letter
of state senate districts was, whereas redist2 tells you what the old
number of state house districts was.

Carl

On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 11:47 AM David Lublin <dlublin at american.edu> wrote:
>
> Dear Colleagues:
>
> For a study I'm doing now, I'm trying to figure out two problems related to mid-decade re-redistricting.
>
> (1) Which 14 TX state house district lines were changed in 2014? Despite the wealth of data on the TX redistricting website, I'm having trouble figuring out the numbers of the districts.
>
> (2) I've got 21 states in the study and have identified the following mid-decade state legislative or congressional re-redistricting since 2011. Have I missed any cases?
>
> Five States with Mid-Decade Re-Redistricting
> Texas: new state House districts for 2014
> Virginia: new CDs for 2016, new state House & state Senate plans for 2019.
> Georgia: new state House & state Senate plans for 2016.
> Pennsylvania: new CDs for 2018.
> Alaska: new state House & state Senate plans for 2014.
>
> Sixteen States without Mid-Decade Re-Redistricting
> Arizona
> California
> Colorado
> Connecticut
> Delaware
> Hawaii
> Illinois
> Maryland
> Massachusetts
> Minnesota
> Nevada
> New Jersey
> New York
> Oregon
> Rhode Island
> Washington
>
> Thanks for any help you can lend. Please feel free to write me directly at dlublin at american.edu.
>
> David
>
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