Interactive. Draw your own electoral district

One possible technique for drawing better electoral districts is to let people have their own say in what communities belong together in a single representative unit. By soliciting feedback from many participants, researchers can look and how and where gerrymandered maps diverge from more intuitive geographic patterns.

The Districtr tool, created by the Metric Geometry and Gerrymandering Group at Tufts University, is an experiment in people-powered electoral map drawing. Pick a state below to get started!