I convey a feeling that election maps are going to characteristic quite a lot this coming week. So let's larn the ball rolling amongst an interactive map from the Washington Post which gives a gerrymandered marking for each congressional district inward the United States.
The Washington Post has determined the gerrymandered marking of each district based on the "ratio of the district expanse to the expanse of a circle amongst the same perimeter". The final result of this oil analysis is that districts which follow a regular cast tend to last to a greater extent than compact as well as marking depression on this ratio, spell districts which convey a lot of squiggles as well as offshoots marking highly as well as are rated every bit beingness to a greater extent than gerrymandered.
The How Gerrymandered is your Congressional District? map colors each congressional district based on this gerrymandered score. You tin mouse-over each district on the map to sentiment its gerrymandered score, the terra firma average marking as well as the mention & political party of the district's representative. You tin likewise read a piddling to a greater extent than well-nigh how the scores were determined as well as which states convey the most gerrymandered districts inward the Post's article on America's Most Gerrymandered Congressional Districts.
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