1st place: Mike Fortner
Mike Fortner's Winning Senate Map
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• Ohio House Map
• Ohio House Cuyahoga county Map
• Ohio House Franklin County Map
• Ohio House Hamilton County Map
• Ohio House Montgomery County Map
• Ohio House Summit County Map
• Ohio House Lucas County Map
• Mike Fortner’s House Stats, part 1
• Mike Fortner’s House Stats, part 2
• Ohio Senate Map
• Ohio Senate Cuyahoga County Map
• Ohio Senate Franklin County Map
• Ohio Senate Hamilton County Map
• Ohio Senate Montgomery County Map
• Mike Fortner’s Senate Summit County Map
• Mike Fortner’s Senate Lucas County Map
• Mike Fortner’s Senate Stats
2nd Place: Tim Clarke
• Ohio House Map
• Ohio House Cuyahoga County Map
• Ohio House Franklin County Map
• Ohio House Hamilton County Map
• Ohio House Montgomery County Map
• Ohio House Summit County Map
• Ohio House Lucas County Map
• Tim Clarke’s House Stats, part 1
• Tim Clarke’s House Stats, part 2
• Ohio Senate Map
• Ohio Senate Cuyahoga County Map
• Ohio Senate Franklin County Map
• Ohio Senate Hamilton County Map
• Ohio Senate Montgomery County Map
• Ohio Senate Summit County Map
• Ohio Senate Lucas County Map
• Tim Clarke’s Senate Stats
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The winners are good. Did they work Columbus and Cincinnati block by block with anchor-rectangle command?
I used both the rectangle and polygon tool to move groups of blocks in Columbus, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Akron, Toledo, and Dayton. All these large cities were divided at the level of house districts. Because of the limit on the number of geographies that could be moved at once, it was the most time-consuming part of the process for me.
The block-level district adjustment could be greatly improved if there was an additional layer between the mcdplaces and blocks. Either a layer for wards or VTDs (voter tabulation districts; i.e. precincts) would greatly help the software. A layer for wards would also allow the legislative competition to check for compliance with that part of the Ohio Constitution.
I created ward maps for Cleveland and (parts of) Columbus. You can use the copy and paste command to copy these into an other plan and then edit them into a district.
So imagine if you had a plan in Cuyahoga County where you had created some districts in the suburbs, and wanted to add some of the Cleveland wards, or create districts entirely in Cleveland.
You copy the Cleveland wards which creates 19 “house districts” in Cleveland, one for each ward. You lock all the wards you don’t want in your Cleveland district, and leave the wards you want in the district unlocked. You then selected Cleveland. When you do a selection it excludes areas inside locked districts, so this would select only the desired areas of Cleveland. This could then be assigned to a new district or dragged into a suburban district.
[...] is a better way to draw districts, the Ohio Campaign for Accountable Redistricting unveiled the winner of its redistricting contest yesterday. The map contains 25 heavily competitive House districts, [...]
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I am confused. It still looks like it favors the Republicans then Democrats…..it does seem closer to even, but not sure if I am reading this right could you explain it better for those of us who are new to this.
Fortner Map
House — 49 districts favor Reps, 43 favor Dems, 7 even
Senate — 15 districts favor Reps, 15 favor Dems, 3 even
Clarke Map
House — 51 districts favor Reps, 40 favor Dems, 8 even
Senate — 17 districts favor Reps, 15 favor Dems, 1 even
Current Map
House — 60 districts favor Reps, 36 favor Dems, 3 even
Senate — 20 districts favor Reps, 12 favor Dems, 1 even
We determined the political index for Ohio and for each district using the 2008 Presidential race, and the 2010 Governor, Auditor, and Secretary of State races. This results in 51.4% Republican index statewide, which will result in slightly more districts leaning Republican than Democrat.
There are additional documents on our website which go into more detail and breakdown the districts between strong Republican, lean Republican, Strong Democrat, and Lean Democrat.
I don’t see the new maps for the Akron 44th House or 28th Senate District?
[...] and encourage reasonable political debate isn’t difficult, once the politics are removed. The top-scoring map was drawn by Mike Fortner, a Republican state representative — from Illinois. His plan [...]