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About Draw Congress

DrawCongress.org is product of the Stanford Redistricting Project, an initiative for law students and undergraduates to create and publish congressional maps for every state in the country, based on the 2020 census data. The plans on this website are all student-drawn redistricting plans, accompanied by descriptions and maps which identify the redistricting principles that guide each plan. Students draw their maps using software called Maptitude for Redistricting, by Caliper Corporation. All maps, images, associated data, and plan descriptions can be exported from the Redistricting Plan Page for the plan and freely used by anyone.

The Stanford Redistricting Project has two goals. First, the project seeks to educate both the students involved and the general public about the redistricting process and competing concepts of fair representation. We hope the maps and redistricting plans contained here depict what is possible in the current round of redistricting and in many cases what nonpartisan plans might look like. Second, we hope these plans serve as a benchmark against which incumbent-drawn plans can be assessed. While not passing judgment on the plans that states propose and adopt this redistricting cycle, we hope that the plans contained here illustrate alternative paths to those plans and the promise (and challenges) of nonpartisan redistricting.

The most common redistricting principles used as the guiding factors for the maps on this website include the following:

Note: Students’ ability to draw plans that are politically competitive or representative is contingent on the availability of recent state electoral data. States vary considerably in what data they make available.

WISH TO GET INVOLVED?

For individuals not affiliated with the Stanford Redistricting Project who wish to submit plans, we encourage you to upload those to either Redistrict2020, by following their contributing guidelines, or, for the less technically inclined, Redistrictr.org. We will link to third party maps at these sites from each of our State Pages.

DISCLAIMER

The plans on this site do not represent the views of Stanford University, Stanford University Law School or any professor or staff member associated with the Stanford Redistricting Project. The maps uploaded and proposed here, and all of the associated redistricting plans, are solely the work of the student-authors of such maps and plans.

LEADERSHIP

The Stanford Redistricting Project is led by Professor Nate Persily, who also teaches the associated redistricting policy practicum at Stanford Law School. The senior staff director for the project and teaching assistant for the policy practicum is Zahavah Levine.

CONTACT US

To contact us, please email Zahavah Levine.

WEB DEVELOPMENT

This website was built by GreenInfo Network, a non-profit mapping firm that focuses on maps and data in the public interest.