Re-drawing Districts

[TroutBum]

SL county will need to be split, obviously, but the direction in which it will split will make a huge difference. Split it north/south and you'll have a pretty clear dem district and repub district. Go east/west, and you might have two 50/50s, which would certainly make things interesting.

I wish we could have an independent committee that would re-district based only on geographic and population-based considerations, completely ignoring partisan demographics.

In the end, I'd really just like to not be in Trout's district.

Are you kidding me? I'm the future face of Taylorsville city council, baby. Align yourself with a winner.

 

[LogGrad98]

My lines aren't certainly perfect, and I have no idea where the 600k people that live in the Ogden metro are counted, but that's what I was going for in 4. That should encompass the Ogden metro which would give it enough people and a couple of outliers for around 700k.

Ogden Metro is in between davis and weber more or less. Ogden proper is contained within Weber County.

 

[Darkwing Duck]

Ogden Metro is in between davis and weber more or less. Ogden proper is contained within Weber County.

It's considered the Ogden-Clearfield metro. Layton is included in this. I'm not sure about Bountiful, but I'm assuming that's Salt Lake. I think the boundary is right around the 89, I-15 merger.

EDIT:

Hmm...Maybe it does.

 

[Nate505]

You're all just stupid blind followers.

My opinion > Science

Pshaw, maybe astrology.

 

[babe]

Your district 4 only has about 200k people in it.

If the breakdown is what you say then obviously the SLC metro should have two representatives and the rest of the state should split the other two.

Total Utah population is about 2.8 million. If the Salt Lake metro has 1.2 million then it's not much of a stretch to say that it deserves half of the state's representation. I'm sure it's even more fair when you take into account its share of the state's economic activity.

Add Tooele, Summit and I think you have 1.35 M. Split Salt Lake down the middle. You'll have two "unsafe" seats for the Dems, with a possible occasional win in the other two.