Here's some initial info on the new districts.
All Senate district retain their incumbents except the 25th district which is redrawn as a majority-minority seat in southside. Creigh Deeds, the current 25th Senator is put into the 24th Senate district with Emmett Hanger, a district that now includes all of Augusta,and Bath counties along with Charlottesville and other pieces.
John Edwards, Dave Marsden, George Barker, Chuck Colgan and John Miller, have major changes to their districts- with Marsden becoming more Democratic (almost majority-minority) by running to south Prince William County, while Edwards, Barker, Miller and Colgan take in many more Republican precincts.
DEVELOPING....
UPDATE:
DOWNLOAD NEW DISTRICTS HERE
Looks like alot of the new 25th comes from Sen. Lucas' district. And note, they split a precinct in chesterfield co, I suspect, to carve African-American voters in/out.
Posted by: JSC | January 21, 2013 at 05:32 PM
Wow. Im only 3 pages in to reading this bill and there are 3 instances where a locality is represented ONLY by a partial precinct in a district. For example, in SD6, "part of York county, comprised of part of the Harris Grove (302) precinct" Legally, you do have to take into consideration "communities of interest" when drawing districts.
Posted by: JSC | January 21, 2013 at 06:33 PM