Redistricting Plan

Despite that Michigan loses a congressional seat this cycle, this map ventures to respect least change principles. The process began by focusing on the old districts outside of Detroit first, then working toward Detroit. This means that the "extra population" was concentrated around the Detroit metropolitan area. Next, to comply with section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, this map creates two majority-black districts in Detroit. For reference, the black population of Michigan roughly corresponds to 1.8 congressional seats. After drawing these two districts in Detroit, this map then equalizes population as nearly as practicable in accordance with one person/one vote law. While doing so, this map aims to disrupt political subdivision lines as minimally as possible and whenever possible, to only do so on political subdivision lines that were already broken in the previous map. The most significant change, to accommodate losing an entire district, was to place Flint in district 4, splitting it from Bay City and Saginaw.