redistricting-alternate-maps/redistricting-alternate-maps: 45

This repo contains the data behind the story What If Democrats — Or Republicans — Had Won Every Redistricting Battle?. There is one csv file in this repo: redistricting-alternate-maps.csv.

Header Definition
state_abbr Two-letter state abbreviation.
state_name Full state name.
rep_map Link to the most Republican-favorable map proposed in the 2020 census redistricting cycle in this state, as analyzed in FiveThirtyEight's Redistricting Tracker.
rep_map_r_districts Number of Republican-leaning districts in the most Republican-favored proposed map.
rep_map_d_districts Number of Democratic-leaning districts in the most Republican-favored proposed map.
rep_map_c_districts Number of highly competitive districts in the most Republican-favored proposed map.
rep_map_avg_r_chances Mean of Republicans' odds of winning each district in the most Republican-favored proposed map.
rep_map_avg_d_chances Mean of Democrats' odds of winning each district in the most Republican-favored proposed map.
rep_map_median_pvi Difference between the partisan lean of the most Republican-favored proposed map’s median district and the partisan lean of the state as a whole. Values more favorable to Democrats are coded as positive; values more favorable to Republicans are coded as negative.
dem_map Link to the most Democratic-favorable map proposed in the 2020 census redistricting cycle in this state, as analyzed in FiveThirtyEight's Redistricting Tracker.
dem_map_r_districts Number of Republican-leaning districts in the most Democratic-favored proposed map.
dem_map_d_districts Number of Democratic-leaning districts in the most Democratic-favored proposed map.
dem_map_c_districts Number of highly competitive districts in the most Democratic-favored proposed map.
dem_map_avg_r_chances Mean of Republicans' odds of winning each district in the most Democratic-favored proposed map.
dem_map_avg_d_chances Mean of Democrats' odds of winning each district in the most Democratic-favored proposed map.
dem_map_median_pvi Difference between the partisan lean of the most Democratic-favored proposed map’s median district and the partisan lean of the state as a whole. Values more favorable to Democrats are coded as positive; values more favorable to Republicans are coded as negative.
com_map Link to the most competitive map proposed in the 2020 census redistricting cycle in this state, as analyzed in FiveThirtyEight's Redistricting Tracker.
com_map_r_districts Number of Republican-leaning districts in the most competitive proposed map.
com_map_d_districts Number of Democratic-leaning districts in the most competitive proposed map.
com_map_c_districts Number of highly competitive districts in the most competitive proposed map.
com_map_avg_r_chances Mean of Republicans' odds of winning each district in the most competitive proposed map.
com_map_avg_d_chances Mean of Democrats' odds of winning each district in the most competitive proposed map.
com_map_median_pvi Difference between the partisan lean of the most competitive proposed map’s median district and the partisan lean of the state as a whole. Values more favorable to Democrats are coded as positive; values more favorable to Republicans are coded as negative.

Data license: CC Attribution 4.0 License · Data source: fivethirtyeight/data on GitHub · About: simonw/fivethirtyeight-datasette

This data as json, copyable

rowid state_abbr state_name rep_map rep_map_r_districts rep_map_d_districts rep_map_c_districts rep_map_avg_r_chances rep_map_avg_d_chances rep_map_median_pvi dem_map dem_map_r_districts dem_map_d_districts dem_map_c_districts dem_map_avg_r_chances dem_map_avg_d_chances dem_map_median_pvi com_map com_map_r_districts com_map_d_districts com_map_c_districts com_map_avg_r_chances com_map_avg_d_chances com_map_median_pvi
45 VA Virginia https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/redistricting-2022-maps/virginia/commission_plan_a5/ 6 5 0 0.506015904 0.493984096 -10.58923663 https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/redistricting-2022-maps/virginia/commission_plan_b5/ 4 6 1 0.43852225 0.56147775 1.133460918 https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/redistricting-2022-maps/virginia/commission_plan_c1_b/ 4 5 2 0.450332284 0.549667716 -3.431905522