Worst Gerrymandering
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c9Just found this awesome/awful image of six badly gerrymandered congressional districts in the US. Gerrymandering is the redrawing of electoral boundaries to effect a change in voting patterns -- for example, to put all the blacks or evangelicals in one place or to spread them out, which dramatically changes potential results. *sigh*
You can see maps of Canada's ridings on the Elections Canada Electoral Districts site. I don't think Canada has many bad ones, since Elections Canada is independent (despite what the Tories currently are claiming in court). Examples of a few ridings: my riding of Toronto Danforth, our largest riding of Nunavut, Prime Minister Stephen Harper's riding of Calgary Southwest -- for fun, check out the very short candidates list! Also, here's a giant map of the results from the last election (PDF).
You can see maps of Canada's ridings on the Elections Canada Electoral Districts site. I don't think Canada has many bad ones, since Elections Canada is independent (despite what the Tories currently are claiming in court). Examples of a few ridings: my riding of Toronto Danforth, our largest riding of Nunavut, Prime Minister Stephen Harper's riding of Calgary Southwest -- for fun, check out the very short candidates list! Also, here's a giant map of the results from the last election (PDF).
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Illinois 4th
Date: 2008-10-21 12:19 am (UTC)It don't get no better than this Chicago masterpiece. Using a 20-mile ribbon which follows rivers, bicycle paths, forest preserves, Interstate rights of way, a golf course, two large cemeteries, and a massive rail yard, the Chicago machine connected the Hispanic neighborhoods on both the north and south sides of town, resulting in a safe hispanic seat with the 5th highest concentration of hispanics in any congressional district.
Re: Illinois 4th
Date: 2008-10-21 12:36 am (UTC)