During the last redistricting, the Democrats and the Republicans allowed for a split redistricting plan: Dems redraw the Assembly, the GOP drew the Senate, and they both drew the House map. Now, with split control again, I think it would be best to allow the Courts to draw the redistricting map, even if it means Dems lose about twenty Assembly seats–Dems already control about 70% of the vote share!
So, I tried to draw the map as if I were the courts. Sorry if my naming of colors throws you off.
My plan is a fair plan:
I make as many minority-majority seats as I think would be necessary;
No district is designed specifically for any current senator;
County splitting is avoided as much as possible;
Almost all towns are kept together: no joke, there is not a single town outside of Nassau and Suffolk that is split. In Suffolk, Islip is too big, so three precincts are moved to NY-02. In Nassau, some hamlets might be split, but I’m pretty sure there aren’t that many that are;
In the City, I tired to respect racial groups;
Upstate, I tried to keep regions together.
To that end, Democrats would surely take the State Senate under this map. I’ve classified everything from R+1 to D+3 as a swing district. If you give Republicans all swing districts, they’ll only muster 25 seats. Kudos to the 2000 GOP, they made one heckuva map. Can you imagine if Dems made a Senate map? They could easily make 45 seats, but that’s a different story.
Here’s my map:
NY-1 D+1 Blue
South Hampton, Part of Brookhaven
NY-2 R+0 Green
Part of Brookhaven, Three Precincts of Islip
NY-3 D+1 Purple
Rest of Islip
NY-4 R+4 Red
Huntington, Smithtown
NY-5 R+2 Yellow
Babylon, Part of Oyster Bay
NY-6 D+2 Teal
Part of Hempstead
NY-7 D+2 Gray
Part of Hempstead
NY-8 D+3 Bluish Purple
Part of Hempstead, Part of North Hempstead
NY-9 D+1 Turquoise
Part of North Hempstead, Part of Oyster Bay
NY-10 D+14 Pink
Queens
NY-11 D+18 Light Green
Queens
NY-12 D+27 Light Blue
Queens
NY-13 D+27 Beige
Queens
NY-14 D+10 Mustard Green
Queens
NY-15 D+40 Dark Blue
Queens
NY-16 D+27 Orange
Queen, Brooklyn
NY-17 D+44 Lighter Green
Brooklyn
NY-18 R+5 Yellow
Brooklyn
NY-19 D+44 Green
Brooklyn
NY-20 D+42 Light Pink
Brooklyn
NY-21 D+39 Velvet Red
Brooklyn
NY-22 D+28 Brown
Brooklyn
NY-23 R+4 Darker Turquoise
Brooklyn
NY-24 D+12 Dark Purple
Brooklyn, Staten Island
NY-25 R+15 Pinkish Red
Staten Island
NY-26 D+41 Dark Gray
The Bronx
NY-27 D+31 Green
Brooklyn, Manhattan
NY-28 D+31 Dark Pink
Manhattan
NY-29 D+33 Green Gray
Manhattan
NY-30 D+23 Orange Red
Manhattan
NY-31 D+43 Yellow
Manhattan
NY-32 D+39 Red
Manhattan
NY-33 D+43 Blue
The Bronx
NY-34 D+25 Green
The Bronx, Queens
NY-35 D+32 Purple
The Bronx
NY-36 D+37 Orange
The Bronx, Mount Vernon
NY-37 D+9 Blue
Yonkers, New Rochelle
NY-38 D+11 Turquoise
White Plains, Rye
NY-39 D+5 Yellow
Peekskill, Clarkstown
NY-40 R+3 Red
Ramapo, Orangetown
NY-41 EVEN Gray
Middletown, Newburgh
NY-42 R+2 Light Green
Poughkeepsie, Beacon
NY-43 D+6 Pink
Kingston, Hudson
NY-44 D+9 Reddish
Syracuse
NY-45 D+9 Blue
Ithaca, Auburn, Cortland
NY-46 R+6 Prange
Elmira
NY-47 R+6 Light Pink
Rome, Utica, Oneida
NY-48 R+6 Orange
Watertown, Oswego
NY-49 R+1 Red
Binghamton, Vestal, Oneonta
NY-50 R+6 Gray Blue
Gloversville, Amsterdam
NY-51 D+5 Brown
Schenectady, Troy
NY-52 D+8 Dark Green
Albany, Rensselaer
NY-53 D+5 Gray
Plattsburg, Potsdam, Ogdensburg
NY-54 R+2 Light Beige
Saratoga Springs, Glens Falls
NY-55 D+4 Dark Beige
Part of Rochester, Perinton, Geneva
NY-56 D+12 Blue
Rest of Rochester
NY-57 R+11 Green
Olean, Corning
NY-58 R+5 Purple
Jamestown, Dunkirk, Pomfret, Orchard Park
NY-59 D+15 Red
Part of Buffalo, Lackawanna
NY-60 D+8 Yellow
Part of Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Tonawanda, North Tonawanda
NY-61 R+5 Turquoise
Amherst, Lockport
NY-62 R+8 Gray
Greece
