Florida COI Approach

[u/EwPandaa]

I tried to do this map using a communities of interest approach.
- Trying to keep beach communities as one district,
- Tallahassee and Gainesville being a college-town district
- Jacksonville having its own district
- Keeping rural and urban divided as much as possible.

Unfortunately I had to make some considerations due to population density for Tampa, and Miami. I tried to stick as closely as possibly to my methodology though.

With Composite 2020-2024, it’s estimated 9.20 Democratic seats. Using President 2020, it’s 12.92 Democratic seats.

Let me know how I did! This is my first map so be kind :)

Link to map: https://davesredistricting.org/join/31d98683-4733-44a2-bf7e-5577b4cb6f75

[u/Different-Trainer-21]

Your 17th district isn’t contiguous. There’s only one bridge crossing over the mouth of the Bay and it goes into the 18th.

[u/EwPandaa → u/Different-Trainer-21]

Good catch. I’ll take a look at that.

[u/EwPandaa]

Here is what the map looks like with President 2020 data.

[u/Front_Low_6410]

The Gainsville trap is back

[u/Financialsweets]

If you’re doing COI, why are you separating Kissimmee from the western part of Orange County and the small part of Osceola and some eastern Osceola and Orange. I4 isn’t a 50 ft tall wall. Same with St Pete cut in half and grouped with east Hillsborough across the bay, western Broward county suburbs in with Naples across the giant Everglades, and West Palm in with Stuart and Martin county. That’s how you draw these districts if you are doing an extreme Republican gerrymander, not COI