What If Democrats — Or Republicans — Had Won Every Redistricting Battle?
What If Democrats — Or Republicans — Had Won Every Redistricting Battle?
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. |