Redistricting Plan

This proposal seeks to maximize the number of competitive districts while still emphasizing good government principles, aiming for greater degrees of compactness than my max competition proposal. I define a competitive district as a district where the difference between the Republican and Democratic vote shares in the 2020 presidential election was at most five percentage points. Under this definition, the plan has four competitive districts (districts 4-6 and district 9), a substantial improvement over both the previous map (used in the 2020 election) and the enacted plan, each of which have one competitive district. While the proposal creates fewer competitive districts than my max competition plan, it draws much more compact districts and preserves communities of interest to a greater extent. In essence, this hybrid proposal strikes a middle ground between relatively non-competitive good government maps and more competitive but less compact maps. While the plan attempted to be nonpartisan, independent analyses suggest the plan favors Republicans.