Texas Districts non-biased voting districts part 1

So i figured what if voting districts in Texas had to follow some sort of logical rules in order to exist?  All districts start by following city boundaries, then if necessary move to county boundaries; this rule is only broken for population reasons.  The application has some limitations with this such as voting districts not aligning to cities so i did the best i could.  I’ll add the break down of each district later i’m too tired tonight

CD-32 West Dallas, Addison

CD-30 East Dallas, Park Cities, Balch Springs

CD-12 Fort Worth, Westover Hills

CD-6 Arlington, Grand Praire, Mansfield

CD-3 (North Dallas Suburbs) Plano, Frisco, Richardson, Allen, McKinney (Partial)

CD-5 (East and South Dallas Suburbs) Garland, Rockwall, Mesquite, Duncanville, DeSoto

CD-24 (North Fort Worth Suburbs) Irving, Grapevine, Keller, Richland Hills

CD-26 Denton, Flower Mound, Lewisville, Carrollton

CD-4 (DFW Exurbs) Cleburne, Waxahachie, Greenville, McKinney

CD-20 West San Antonio, Castle Hills

CD-21 East San Antonio, Alamo Heights

CD-23 San Antonio Suburbs and exurbs

17 thoughts on “Texas Districts non-biased voting districts part 1”

  1. But I believe that some states do not allow for one district to be completely surrounded by another. You have 2 such districts here. Any insight about the laws in Texas?

  2. Here is what Greg Giroux from CQPolitics said when I asked him a similar question over a year ago about this same hypothetical situation:

    “Thanks for the question. There are requirements that districts be contiguous and roughly equal in population, but I haven’t encountered a case like this and am not aware of any law that would prevent the creation of a bulls-eye-style district that is enveloped by another district.

    Greg Giroux”

  3. i just finished a map. if you think now is bad, try 36 districts, only 7 democratic, but 13 VRA.  That’s right, split San Antonio into 3 to dilute it completely and all the districts are Hispanic GOP.  Split El Paso in 2 to make a panhandle, Lubbock district Hispanic.  Create one in South Texas in the more Republican parts, and one in the Houston Suburbs.  Of course demographic trends could be an issue.

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