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redistricting-alternate-maps

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What If Democrats — Or Republicans — Had Won Every Redistricting Battle?

This repo contains the data behind the story What If Democrats — Or Republicans — Had Won Every Redistricting Battle?. There is one csv file in this repo: redistricting-alternate-maps.csv.

Header	Definition
`state_abbr`	Two-letter state abbreviation.
`state_name`	Full state name.
`rep_map`	Link to the most Republican-favorable map proposed in the 2020 census redistricting cycle in this state, as analyzed in FiveThirtyEight's Redistricting Tracker.
`rep_map_r_districts`	Number of Republican-leaning districts in the most Republican-favored proposed map.
`rep_map_d_districts`	Number of Democratic-leaning districts in the most Republican-favored proposed map.
`rep_map_c_districts`	Number of highly competitive districts in the most Republican-favored proposed map.
`rep_map_avg_r_chances`	Mean of Republicans' odds of winning each district in the most Republican-favored proposed map.
`rep_map_avg_d_chances`	Mean of Democrats' odds of winning each district in the most Republican-favored proposed map.
`rep_map_median_pvi`	Difference between the partisan lean of the most Republican-favored proposed map’s median district and the partisan lean of the state as a whole. Values more favorable to Democrats are coded as positive; values more favorable to Republicans are coded as negative.
`dem_map`	Link to the most Democratic-favorable map proposed in the 2020 census redistricting cycle in this state, as analyzed in FiveThirtyEight's Redistricting Tracker.
`dem_map_r_districts`	Number of Republican-leaning districts in the most Democratic-favored proposed map.
`dem_map_d_districts`	Number of Democratic-leaning districts in the most Democratic-favored proposed map.
`dem_map_c_districts`	Number of highly competitive districts in the most Democratic-favored proposed map.
`dem_map_avg_r_chances`	Mean of Republicans' odds of winning each district in the most Democratic-favored proposed map.
`dem_map_avg_d_chances`	Mean of Democrats' odds of winning each district in the most Democratic-favored proposed map.
`dem_map_median_pvi`	Difference between the partisan lean of the most Democratic-favored proposed map’s median district and the partisan lean of the state as a whole. Values more favorable to Democrats are coded as positive; values more favorable to Republicans are coded as negative.
`com_map`	Link to the most competitive map proposed in the 2020 census redistricting cycle in this state, as analyzed in FiveThirtyEight's Redistricting Tracker.
`com_map_r_districts`	Number of Republican-leaning districts in the most competitive proposed map.
`com_map_d_districts`	Number of Democratic-leaning districts in the most competitive proposed map.
`com_map_c_districts`	Number of highly competitive districts in the most competitive proposed map.
`com_map_avg_r_chances`	Mean of Republicans' odds of winning each district in the most competitive proposed map.
`com_map_avg_d_chances`	Mean of Democrats' odds of winning each district in the most competitive proposed map.
`com_map_median_pvi`	Difference between the partisan lean of the most competitive proposed map’s median district and the partisan lean of the state as a whole. Values more favorable to Democrats are coded as positive; values more favorable to Republicans are coded as negative.

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