Redistricting Resources
Organizations and Presentations
- Professional Development
- Co-hosted by Retro Report, New American History, and GeoCivics, this webinar featured resources for teaching about redistricting and gerrymandering in secondary classrooms as well as resources for higher education institutions. Check out the recording here.
- What Constitutes a Fair Map?, GeoConvergence Workshop
- American Geographical Society, May 18-20, 2021
- Gerrymandering and Redistricting in a Faithful Democracy, May 4, 2021
- The CEEP Network, Workshops about Current Affairs - list of materials and resources
- Municipal-Led, Community-Engaged Local Redistricting, March 25, 2021
- Electoral Redistricting 101, January 27, 2021
- University of Colorado Colorado Springs
- Electoral Redistricting in the Era of Geospatial Technology, November 13, 2020
- GIS Day Lightning Talks, University of Colorado Boulder
- Redistricting of the people, by the people, and for the people, April 26, 2019
- TEDxMashpeeED
Materials
- ll About Redistricting
- American Association of Geographers
- Redistricting Panel Series hosted by the American Association of Geographers offers insight in several states. Explore these videos to learn how states from Washington to Florida address drawing lines.
- 4 ways you can make an impact on gerrymandering and redistricting
- American Civil Liberties Union - Redistricting 101
- The American Redistricting Project
- Annenburg Center – ReDistricting Game
- Ballotpedia - State-by-State Redistricting Procedures
- Brennan Center for Justice – Redistricting
- Report: Redistricting Commissions in the 2021 Redistricting Cycle, June 26, 2024
- Assessing the Redistricting Cycle
- Redistricting: Fair Maps and Urgent Reforms
- 2022 Redistricting Map Tracker, March 22, 2023
- Redistricting
- Litigation Roundup, March 21, 2023
- Redistricting: A Mid-Cyle Assessment, Michael Li, Harry Isaiah Black, Peter Miller, and Chris Leaverton, January 19, 2022
- 6 Tips for Making Effective Comments at a Redistricting Hearing, Peter Miller, August 26, 2021
- C-SPAN Classroom
- Campaign Legal Center
- New Report Outlines How to Make a Redistricting Commission Effective, Simone Leeper, June 26, 2024
- Independent Redistricting Commissions: Primer and Best Practices, June 25, 2024
- Climate Mapping for Resilience and Adaptation (community of interest resource)
- Coalition Hub for Advancing Redistricting & Grassroots Engagement
- Common Cause
- Congressional Apportionment, 2010 Census Briefs
- CROWD Academy, Southern Coalition for Social Justice
- Dave's Redistricting App
- Distrctr: You draw the lines.
- Draw The Lines PA
- Esri
- Fair Lines America Foundation
- FiveThirtyEight
- Geography and the Decennial Task of Redistricting, Gerald Webster, Journal of Geography
- Metric Geometry and Gerrymandering Group, Moon Duchin, Tufts University
- National Conference of State Legislatures
- Redistricting Resources
- Redistricting Glossary
- Redistricting: A Primer with Wendy Underhill and Ben Williams, November 15, 2021
- The Road to Now Podcast, with Dr. Benjamin Sawyer
- Creation of Redistricting Commissions, January 5, 2021
- Differential Privacy for Census Data Explained, December 18, 2020
- Redistricting and the Use of Census Data, July 8, 2019
- National League of Cities
- Our Common Purpose:Reinventing American Democracy for the 21st Century, June 2020
- People Powered Fair Maps, League of Women Voters
- Plan Score
- Redistricting and You, Population Analysis Tool, Center for Urban Research
- Redistricting Data Hub
- Redistricting for Racial Justice, a program of More Equitable Democracy
- Redistricting Online
- Re-mapping American Politics: The Redistricting Revolution Fifty Years Later, David Stebenne, Origins
- Retro Report
- Voting and Redistricting Collection
- Reapportionment and Redistricting Activity (outline and resources)
- The Battle for Voters: Gerrymandering (video)
- State-by-State Redistricting Reform: The Local Routes
- Students Learn Students Vote Coalition - Redistricting
Perspectives
- The 2020 vote and beyond: Old situations, new complications
- Rebecca Theobald, Political Geography, 2021
- "This is gerrymandering at its worst. It doesn't have to be that way." Explore maps from The Washington Post discussing why politicians elected under these maps face less popular accountability. Listen to The Economist podcast, Checks and Balance for another view of the current situation as maps are approved and litigation moves through the courts.
- How Maps Reshape American Politics
- Nick Corasaniti, Reid J. Epstein, Taylor Johnston, Rebecca Lieberman and
- Lesson of the Day
- They Want to Be in the Room Where It Happens (read the comments and responses for perspective)
- Gail Collins, The New York Times, September 23, 2021
- Redistricting Battle Heats Up Across the U.S.
- The Takeaway, September 21, 2021
- Geographers and Redistricting
- Emily Yeh, American Association of Geographers Newsletter, September 1, 2021
- How The House Got Stuck At 435 Seats
- Geoffrey Skelley, FiveThirtyEight, August 12, 2021
- Latinos' next census task: Get money and power through redistricting
- Suzanne Gamboa, NBC News, August 11, 2021
- What You Need to Know About Redistricting
- Richard Leadbeater, Esri Industry Blog, October 10, 2020
- The Electoral College will never make everyone happy
- Mark Rush, The Fulcrum, October 22, 2019
- What to say (and not to say) if you're a regular citizen hoping to shape redistricting
- Geoff West, The Fulcrum, September 23, 2019
- Trump’s fight to count US citizens and non-citizens: 5 questions answered
- Jeffrey W Ladewig, The Conversation, August 8, 2019
- Two Friends Talk, Firing Line, October 11, 1990
- Listen to a discussion between Former President Ronald Reagan and William F. Buckley, Jr. about redistricting and gerrymandering. "... I think there should be a bi-partisan commission appointed every ten years to redraw the districts to reflect what are the changes in population and so forth. Instead, when you leave it to the legislatures, it's a conflict of interest." Explore this episode of Firing Line at minute 2:10.