We’ll see. If Republicans can rid Trump’s coat tails like they did in '16, the first thing they’ll do is reverse out all of Evers’s changes and the second thing they’ll do is throw his ass in jail for being a Communist.
Vote in 2022 for State Assembly ended up with 35D/64R, with D’s getting 44.6% of the overall vote. The Evers maps that are now adopted would have made it 46D/53R. So D’s would get 46.5% of the seats for 44.6% of the vote. It’s a slight D over performance, but no maps are going to be perfectly representative, and this is way closer to what it should be.
I think that it is more informative to look at statewide elections instead of assembly. Gerrymandering depressed turnout and in some heavily gerrymandered districts Republicans were running unnopossed. Looking at statewide elections instead with the new maps democrats will get 46% of seats with roughly 50% of the vote.
less lopsided than before but still won’t be representative.
It’s a start.
We’ll see. If Republicans can rid Trump’s coat tails like they did in '16, the first thing they’ll do is reverse out all of Evers’s changes and the second thing they’ll do is throw his ass in jail for being a Communist.
The state supreme court will throw out anything too egregious at this point. The next election for that in Wisconsin is in 2025.
That is, short of throwing justices in jail, as well.
It’s way closer to right. See: https://law.marquette.edu/facultyblog/2024/01/analysis-of-proposed-legislative-redistricting-plans-submitted-to-the-wisconsin-supreme-court/
Vote in 2022 for State Assembly ended up with 35D/64R, with D’s getting 44.6% of the overall vote. The Evers maps that are now adopted would have made it 46D/53R. So D’s would get 46.5% of the seats for 44.6% of the vote. It’s a slight D over performance, but no maps are going to be perfectly representative, and this is way closer to what it should be.
I think that it is more informative to look at statewide elections instead of assembly. Gerrymandering depressed turnout and in some heavily gerrymandered districts Republicans were running unnopossed. Looking at statewide elections instead with the new maps democrats will get 46% of seats with roughly 50% of the vote.