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North Carolina Redistricting

NC’s possible census domino effect on the election calendar

Mapfigure Consulting’s principal geographer and demographer, Blake Esselstyn, has created a StoryMap to show how COVID-related census delays could end up delaying North Carolina elections in 2021 and even 2022. The central piece of the puzzle is actually local redistricting, something that usually gets much less attention than the statewide map-drawing. The StoryMap was originally […]

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Redistricting Software

List of redistricting software

Mapfigure Consulting founding principal Blake Esselstyn first created his curated list of redistricting software as an Airtable database in advance of his talk for a 2019 redistricting conference at Harvard. He has since updated it for 2020. In addition to categorized information about software packages for creating redistricting plans, there are also entries for other […]

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North Carolina Redistricting

Explaining North Carolina’s county-grouping requirement

In order to understand legislative redistricting in North Carolina, you really have to understand some county-related requirements that are unique to the state. Variously called the Stephenson requirements, the county-grouping requirements, or the whole county provision, these restrictions limit how the State House and State Senate districts can be drawn. Noticing the lack of a […]