Nesting (voting districts)

Nesting is the delimitation of voting districts for one elected body in order to define the voting districts for another body.[1]

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The major concerns of nesting are:

  • the practice may impede the creation of majority-minority districts
  • the practice may cause cities or other communities with common concerns to be split into different voting districts (and therefore dilute their votes)

US States which perform nesting

The US States which have nesting (with the ratio of lower house to upper)

In addition there are four states (California, Hawaii, New York, and Wyoming) that encourage, but do not require, nesting of voting districts.[16]

Other jurisdictions which perform nesting

Under the 1970 constitution, Fiji had ten National constituencies. Each of them elected one indigenous Fijian member and one Indo-Fijian member on its own, but two national constituencies were nested into one for the election of General electors' representatives.[17]

The Scottish Parliament and Senedd Cymru are elected using an Additional member system, combining single-member constituencies with a party-list component chosen to ensure overall proportional representation across the chamber. To elect this proportional component, single-member constituencies are nested together within larger multi-member regions. In addition, the Single-member constituencies in the Senedd are identical to those used for the UK House of Commons; this was also the case in Scotland until the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies.

References
  1. Reapportionment and Redistricting in the West By Gary F. Moncrief p30
  2. All about Redistricting - Alaska
  3. All about Redistricting - Arizona
  4. Illinois Constitution Article IV, Section 2(b) http://www.ilga.gov/commission/lrb/con4.htm
  5. All about Redistricting - Iowa
  6. All about Redistricting -Maryland
  7. All about Redistricting - Minnesota
  8. All about Redistricting -Montana
  9. All about Redistricting - New Jersey
  10. All about Redistricting - North Dakota
  11. All about Redistricting - Ohio
  12. All about Redistricting - Oregon
  13. All about Redistricting - South Dakota
  14. All about Redistricting - Washington
  15. All about Redistricting -Wisconsin
  16. Where the lines are drawn by the Brennan Center for Justice
  17. "Fiji Independence Order 1970 and Constitution of Fiji".
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