Here is my attempt at redistricting California’s U.S. House seats, following the commission’s goal of communities of interest as closely as I could. I included each incumbent’s name in roughly which district they’d end up in as a result of this redistricting. I was just not sure where Jerry Lewis would go, and many of the other SoCal reps were rough estimates.
Here are the numbers I ended up with when I finished. (Something odd I noticed in DRA was that when I colored in one block, blocks miles away were also colored in with that same color, like you can see in CA-16 with the color for CA-14.)
Safe Dem: 26
Likely Dem: 5
Lean Dem: 5
Toss-Up: 5
Lean GOP: 2
Likely GOP: 3
Safe GOP: 7
White-majority: 24
Hispanic-majority: 10
Black-majority: 1
Majority-minority with no one majority race: 18 (including the 2 districts that are 50% white; I wasn’t sure if they were 50.1-50.4% or 49.6-49.9%)
Here are the maps and descriptions of each district.
Outer NorCal
CA-01: North Coast + most of Solano County (Mike Thompson)
Demographics: 68% White, 17% Hispanic, 5% Black
2008 President: Obama 62%, McCain 36% (SAFE DEM: D+9)
CA-02: Northern Mountain south to Nevada County (Wally Herger)
Demographics: 82% White, 9% Hispanic
2008 President: McCain 53%, Obama 44% (LIKELY GOP: R+7)
CA-03: Sacramento Valley and part of Sacramento County; similar to 1990s configuration (Dan Lungren)
Demographics: 68% White, 18% Hispanic, 7% Asian
2008 President: Obama 51%, McCain 47% (TOSS-UP: R+2)
CA-04: Lake Tahoe and Sacramento suburbs in Placer and El Dorado Counties (Tom McClintock)
Demographics: 82% White, 10% Hispanic
2008 President: McCain 54%, Obama 44% (SAFE GOP: R+8)
CA-05: Sacramento (Doris Matsui)
Demographics: 50% White, 19% Hispanic, 13% Asian, 12% Black
2008 President: Obama 67%, McCain 31% (SAFE DEM: D+14)
San Francisco Bay Area
CA-06: Marin and Sonoma Counties (Lynn Woolsey)
Demographics: 76% White, 15% Hispanic
2008 President: Obama 76%, McCain 22% (SAFE DEM: D+23)
CA-07: Southwestern Solano County, western Contra Costa County except Richmond (George Miller)
Demographics: 58% White, 14% Asian, 13% Hispanic, 10% Black
2008 President: Obama 70%, McCain 28% (SAFE DEM: D+17)
CA-08: San Francisco (Nancy Pelosi)
Demographics: 44% White, 29% Asian, 15% Hispanic, 8% Black
2008 President: Obama 85%, McCain 13% (SAFE DEM: D+32)
CA-09: Richmond, Berkeley, Oakland (Barbara Lee)
Demographics: 33% White, 26% Black, 20% Hispanic, 17% Asian
2008 President: Obama 89%, McCain 9% (SAFE DEM: D+36)
CA-10: Most of Sacramento County, northern/eastern San Joaquin County (John Garamendi)
Demographics: 59% White, 19% Hispanic, 11% Asian, 6% Black
2008 President: Obama 51%, McCain 47% (TOSS-UP: R+2)
CA-11: Eastern Contra Costa County, western San Joaquin County (Open)
Demographics: 52% White, 24% Hispanic, 11% Asian, 7% Black
2008 President: Obama 62%, McCain 37% (SAFE DEM: D+9)
CA-12: Northern San Mateo County, southwestern San Francisco (Jackie Speier)
Demographics: 47% White, 28% Asian, 18% Hispanic
2008 President: Obama 74%, McCainn 24% (SAFE DEM: D+21)
CA-13: Western Alameda County; I had to expand to Pleasanton to maintain enough population (Jerry McNerney and Pete Stark)
Demographics: 38% White, 26% Asian, 22% Hispanic, 8% Black
2008 President: Obama 74%, McCainn 24% (SAFE DEM: D+21)
CA-14: Silicon Valley (Southern San Mateo County, western Santa Clara County) (Anna Eshoo)
Demographics: 57% White, 22% Asian, 15% Hispanic
2008 President: Obama 72%, McCain 26% (SAFE DEM; D+19)
CA-15: San Jose (probably Mike Honda)
Demographics: 55% White, 28% Asian, 21% Hispanic
2008 President: Obama 70%, McCain 29% (SAFE DEM; D+17)
CA-16: Eastern Alameda and Santa Clara Counties (probably Zoe Lofgren)
Demographics: 37% White, 28% Asian, 28% Hispanic
2008 President: Obama 65%, McCain 34% (SAFE DEM; D+12)
Central
CA-17: Northern Central Coast except with a little bit of Santa Clara added and the southern half of Monterey removed (Sam Farr)
Demographics: 53% White, 36% Hispanic, 5% Asian
2008 President: Obama 72%, McCain 26% (SAFE DEM; D+19)
CA-18: Stretching from Stockton in San Joaquin all the way to Kings County and part of Tulare County to get enough population (Dennis Cardoza)
Demographics: 53% Hispanic, 34% White, 5% Black, 5% Asian
2008 President: Obama 50%, McCain 48% (LEAN GOP; R+3)
CA-19: Parts of Stanislaus, Merced, and Madera Counties, all of Mariposa County (Jeff Denham)
Demographics: 56% White, 32% Hispanic, 5% Asian
2008 President: McCain 50%, Obama 49% (LEAN GOP; R+4)
CA-20: Fresno proper (Jim Costa)
Demographics: 43% White, 36% Hispanic, 10% Asian, 6% Black
2008 President: Obama 51%, McCain 47% (TOSS-UP; R+2)
CA-21: Most of Tulare and Kern Counties (Devin Nunes)
Demographics: 46% White, 45% Hispanic
2008 President: McCain 59%, Obama 40% (SAFE GOP: R+13)
CA-22: Bakersfield and Lancaster (Kevin McCarthy)
Demographics: 51% White, 34% Hispanic, 8% Black
2008 President: McCain 55%, Obama 43% (SAFE GOP: R+9)
CA-23: Southern half of Monterey, all of SLO and SB, far southwestern Ventura (Lois Capps)
Demographics: 63% White, 29% Hispanic
2008 President: Obama 57%, McCain 41% (LEAN DEM: D+4)
CA-24: Most of Ventura County (Elton Gallegly)
Demographics: 54% White, 35% Hispanic, 6% Asian
2008 President: Obama 56%, McCain 42% (LEAN DEM: D+3)
CA-25: Northern half of L.A. County plus a little bit of San Bernardino County (Buck McKeon)
Demographics: 53% White, 28% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 6% Black
2008 President: Obama 54%, McCain 44% (TOSS-UP: D+1)
Los Angeles/Orange County/Inland Empire
CA-26: West Side L.A. plus Thousand Oaks in Ventura County (Henry Waxman)
Demographics: 73% White, 13% Hispanic, 7% Asian
2008 President: Obama 67%, McCain 31% (SAFE DEM: D+14)
CA-27: San Fernando (Howard Berman)
Demographics: 64% Hispanic, 20% White, 7% Asian, 5% Black
2008 President: Obama 73%, McCain 24% (SAFE DEM: D+20)
CA-28: Northern L.A. suburbs including Glendale, Pasadena, and Monrovia (Brad Sherman)
Demographics: 44% White, 30% Hispanic, 14% Asian, 7% Black
2008 President: Obama 65%, McCain 32% (SAFE DEM: D+12)
CA-29: Eastern L.A. County including Pomona, Glendora, Baldwin Park (David Dreier)
Demographics: 52% Hispanic, 29% White, 11% Asian, 5% Black
2008 President: Obama 61%, McCain 37% (SAFE DEM: D+8)
CA-30: Downtown L.A. (probably Xavier Becerra)
Demographics: 53% Hispanic, 21% White, 14% Asian, 10% Black
2008 President: Obama 80%, McCain 18% (SAFE DEM: D+27)
CA-31: Burbank, South Pasadena, part of Downtown (Adam Schiff)
Demographics: 54% Hispanic, 23% White, 16% Asian
2008 President: Obama 77%, McCain 21% (SAFE DEM: D+24)
CA-32: Southeast L.A. County including Monterey Park, El Monte, and Diamond Bar (Judy Chu and Gary Miller)
Demographics: 40% Hispanic, 38% Asian, 17% White
2008 President: Obama 61%, McCain 37% (SAFE DEM: D+8)
CA-33: Santa Monica to El Segundo along the coast (Open; vacated by Jane Harman)
Demographics: 46% White, 29% Hispanic, 11% Black, 9% Asian
2008 President: Obama 76%, McCain 22% (SAFE DEM: D+23)
CA-34: South Central L.A. (Karen Bass and Maxine Waters)
Demographics: 51% Black, 42% Hispanic
2008 President: Obama 94%, McCain 5% (SAFE DEM: D+41)
CA-35: The Hispanic side of South Central (Lucille Roybal-Allard)
Demographics: 86% Hispanic, 10% Black
2008 President: Obama 86%, McCain 12% (SAFE DEM: D+33)
CA-36: Norwalk, Montebello, Downey (Grace Napolitano)
Demographics: 63% Hispanic, 22% White, 8% Asian
2008 President: Obama 64%, McCain 34% (SAFE DEM: D+11)
CA-37: Beach Cities, Carson, Palos Verdes Peninsula (Laura Richardson)
Demographics: 38% White, 33% Hispanic, 19% Asian, 6% Black
2008 President: Obama 59%, McCain 39% (LIKELY DEM: D+6)
CA-38: Long Beach (Linda Sanchez)
Demographics: 36% Hispanic, 32% White, 16% Asian, 13% Black
2008 President: Obama 66%, McCain 32% (SAFE DEM: D+13)
CA-39: Southwestern San Bernardino County including Fontana, Ontario, and Chino (Joe Baca)
Demographics: 52% Hispanic, 30% White, 8% Black, 7% Asian
2008 President: Obama 59%, McCain 39% (LIKELY DEM: D+6)
CA-40: Rialto, San Bernardino, Redlands, Calimesa (Jerry Lewis?)
Demographics: 41% Hispanic, 38% White, 12% Black, 5% Asian
2008 President: Obama 57%, McCain 41% (LEAN DEM: D+4)
CA-42: Around the city of Riverside; includes Norco and Moreno Valley (Open)
Demographics: 45% Hispanic, 36% White, 10% Black, 5% Asian
2008 President: Obama 60%, McCain 39% (LIKELY DEM: D+7)
CA-43: Riverside city and some of southwest Riverside County (Ken Calvert)
Demographics: 66% White, 22% Hispanic, 5% Black
2008 President: McCain 54%, Obama 45% (SAFE GOP: R+8)
CA-45: Most of coastal Orange County (Dana Rohrabacher)
Demographics: 72% White, 13% Hispanic, 11% Asian
2008 President: McCain 52%, Obama 46% (LIKELY GOP; R+6)
CA-46: North-central Orange County including Anaheim, Buena Park, and Garden Grove (Ed Royce)
Demographics: 44% Hispanic, 28% White, 22% Asian
2008 President: Obama 52%, McCain 46% (TOSS-UP; R+1)
CA-47: Central Orange County including Santa Ana, Irvine, and Orange (Loretta Sanchez)
Demographics: 51% Hispanic, 31% White, 13% Asian
2008 President: Obama 59%, McCain 39% (LIKELY DEM; D+6)
CA-48: Northeastern and most of Southern Orange County (probably John Campbell)
Demographics: 67% White, 17% Hispanic, 12% Asian
2008 President: McCain 55%, Obama 43% (SAFE GOP; R+9)
Outer SoCal
CA-41: All of Inyo County and most of San Bernardino County (Jerry Lewis?)
Demographics: 63% White, 23% Hispanic, 6% Black
2008 President: McCain 55%, Obama 43% (SAFE GOP: R+9)
CA-44: Most of Riverside County and all of Imperial County (Mary Bono Mack)
Demographics: 53% Hispanic, 40% White
2008 President: Obama 56%, McCain 43% (LEAN DEM; D+3)
CA-49: Far southern Orange County, southwestern Riverside County, northwestern San Diego County including Camp Pendleton (Darrell Issa)
Demographics: 61% White, 26% Hispanic, 5% Asian
2008 President: McCain 53%, Obama 45% (LIKELY GOP; R+7)
San Diego
CA-50: Most of coastal San Diego County (Brian Bilbray)
Demographics: 73% White, 15% Hispanic, 6% Asian
2008 President: Obama 58%, McCain 40% (LEAN DEM; D+5)
CA-51: Northern San Diego, Lemon Grove (Susan Davis)
Demographics: 50% White, 18% Hispanic, 18% Asian, 10% Black
2008 President: Obama 60%, McCain 39% (LIKELY DEM: D+7)
CA-52: Most of inland San Diego County (Duncan Hunter)
Demographics: 68% White, 22% Hispanic
2008 President: McCain 58%, Obama 40% (SAFE GOP; R+12)
CA-53: Southern San Diego, Chula Vista, Imperial Beach (Bob Filner)
Demographics: 48% Hispanic, 29% White, 11% Asian, 8% Black
2008 President: Obama 61%, McCain 37% (SAFE DEM: D+8)
Part 2 of my redistricting California series, the State Senate, will come in a few days.