Crossposting my draft for FPTP in Israel.
Principles of design:
Data comes from the Electoral commission website, which provides the voting-eligible population registered to each ballot.
I chose to divide the country into 199 constituencies because I knew from my previous attempt that 120 wasn't enough for natural communities, and this quota divided the counting areas pretty evenly.
I tried as far as possible to stick to natural communities: I avoided crossing of local government borders and combining large cities with rural areas, even when that meant geographic weirdness. The fact that I was able to assign decent names to almost all the constituencies shows that I succeeded, I think.
The next phase is precise demarcation. I'm searching for a geolocated database of ballots to use, but it looks like I'll be stuck with just addresses.
As I go through region by region I'll post results.
Edit:
Now on github.
Principles of design:
Data comes from the Electoral commission website, which provides the voting-eligible population registered to each ballot.
I chose to divide the country into 199 constituencies because I knew from my previous attempt that 120 wasn't enough for natural communities, and this quota divided the counting areas pretty evenly.
I tried as far as possible to stick to natural communities: I avoided crossing of local government borders and combining large cities with rural areas, even when that meant geographic weirdness. The fact that I was able to assign decent names to almost all the constituencies shows that I succeeded, I think.
The next phase is precise demarcation. I'm searching for a geolocated database of ballots to use, but it looks like I'll be stuck with just addresses.
As I go through region by region I'll post results.
Edit:
Now on github.
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