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Report: Gerrymandering Impacted NC Election Results

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Monday, November 21, 2016   

RALEIGH, N.C. – As the recount of votes in the November election continues in the Tar Heel State, a report from the Institute for Southern Studies has found that gerrymandering continues to impact the outcome of North Carolina's state and national races.

In the recent election, Democrats comprised 47 percent of voters, but only 23 percent of elected seats. The analysis was prepared by the Institute for Southern Studies.

Allie Yee, associate director with the organization, said the end result is an inaccurate representation of the state’s electorate.

"If you look at the congressional delegation and the number of votes that went to Democratic candidates versus Republican candidates, you see this big gap,” Yee said. “There were a lot more votes that were cast for Democratic candidates than are reflected in their share of the congressional delegations for southern states."

The Washington Post recently designated North Carolina's 12th Congressional District the most gerrymandered district in the country. It stretches from north of Greensboro to Winston-Salem and all the way down to Charlotte. The Fourth District, covering Raleigh and Burlington, and the First District, covering the northeastern part of the state, also made the top ten in the nation.

The Institute for Southern Studies looked at all the Southern states, Yee said, but North Carolina stood out.

"North Carolina is one of the states that has had the most egregious examples of this, at the House level and also at the state legislative level,” she said. "And that's gone to court, that's gone to litigation and so, there's a big push in the state right now to do nonpartisan redistricting."

Earlier this year, a nonpartisan panel of retired North Carolina justices and judges released a suggested congressional map for North Carolina to demonstrate how redistricting might work. The panel created 13 districts based on geography only, without regard to party affiliation.

If put in place, it is estimated that six of those districts would be Republican, four Democrat and three would be in play. Currently, there are 10 Republican districts in the state.




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