One out of every six state House members will reside in either Benton or Washington county after the 2022 election if new legislative districts proposed Friday are approved.
One out of every six state House members will reside in either Benton or Washington county after the 2022 election if new legislative districts proposed Friday are approved.
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“We cannot stand by the accuracy of this data, but we believe that this is a reasonable first effort,” said Jessica Shipley, director of commission non-partisan staff, during the Tuesday morning meeting. “Our first mandate when creating these plans was to create equal population districts with no more than a 5% deviation between the smallest and largest districts.”
Staff were particularly uncertain about the accuracy of population data in the proposed state House of Representatives map, because its districts are the smallest of all three maps and could be more vulnerable to local-level data errors.
The maps aren’t based purely on numbers they have to account for other aspects like competitiveness, communities with shared cultural, economic or geographic interests and federal statutes.