In order to prevent the over splitting of larger cities in Tennessee, we concatenated them with counties in order to create a pseudo-counties. These pseudo-counties limited our maximum number of county splits to 8.
Simulation Notes
We sample 5,000 districting plans for Tennessee across two separate runs.
No special techniques were needed to produce the sample.
2010 Tennessee Congressional Districts
Redistricting requirements
In Tennessee, districts should:
Algorithmic Constraints
We enforce a maximum population deviation of 0.5%.
Data Sources
Data for Tennessee comes from the ALARM Project's 2020 Redistricting Data Files.
Pre-processing Notes
In order to prevent the over splitting of larger cities in Tennessee, we concatenated them with counties in order to create a pseudo-counties. These pseudo-counties limited our maximum number of county splits to 8.
Simulation Notes
We sample 5,000 districting plans for Tennessee across two separate runs. No special techniques were needed to produce the sample.
Validation
Checklist
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