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| D:1 | RP ( 5639.51 points) | October 06, 2021 04:30pm |
Redistricting narrowed to nine potential maps:
[Link]
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| D:1 | RP ( 5639.51 points) | October 06, 2021 04:34pm |
Basically the Republicans are trying to keep Bozeman out of the western district and the Democrats are trying to put it in the western district.
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| D:1 | RP ( 5639.51 points) | November 05, 2021 01:03pm |
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| D:1989 | RBH ( 5694.97 points) | December 18, 2021 12:45pm |
On the way to try finding the new Montana Congressional district map on the state site (which I didn't find a shapefile for), I did find shapefiles for their 1995-05 state legisative district lines, which weren't on the Census Tigerline site where we got most of the other 1990s state legislative lines. Congrats to Jon Tester on having the Senate District he represented from 1999-2005 on this site.
The nesting process means that all it took to turn 100 House Districts into 50 Senate Districts was a trip to MapWindow and figuring out the pairings.
Hopefully LLS gets the 2022 shapefile up to make things easier, or someone figures how to pull the KMZ file from the "Interactive Map". I found the entire thing worked slightly faster by just entering the lines in each district and then attaching them to the big map later through "Guess Attachments" instead of attaching them to the map one at a time
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| D:1989 | RBH ( 5694.97 points) | February 02, 2022 06:13pm |
nice of someone to upload a bunch of editions of "Lawmakers of Montana" to Archive.org in June 2020
For example, this is the 1993 edition: [Link] since there's some 1992-2000 races being entered from Montana this year.
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| D:1989 | RBH ( 5694.97 points) | February 03, 2022 08:24pm |
Another fun part of the "Lawmakers of Montana" booklets is that they include "came to Montana in (year)" notes for pretty much half the legislators. Montana seems to get more people moving there than a bunch of other small mountain time zone states (and not just from the second homes of movie stars)
I think Alaska is the only other state i've seen that consistently puts "when the candidate/office holder moved here" in official information.
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| D:1989 | RBH ( 5694.97 points) | March 14, 2024 09:57pm |
*entering the new MT State Senate districts* hey, these districts are in order in the file, good
*entering the new MT State House districts* hey, these districts are not in order (thankfully most of the districts were in the same neighborhood as the other district numbers, so it didn't slow me down much)
so that's the one state that does their legislative redistricting 2 years after everybody else (except for states whose maps get overturned by judges or redrawn by their legislators)
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| S:11714 | Zuckatron ( 1177.12 points) | April 07, 2025 06:52am |
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