Hear It Here First: The Congressional District Maps

Over at WSP, we’ve been working the phones for the last few weeks to get an idea of the maps.  Here is what we’ve found out.

1st District:  Lake, Porter, a small portion of LaPorte County

2nd District:  Remaining LaPorte, St. Joseph, Elkhart, Stark, Marshall, Part of Kosciusko, Pulaski, Fulton, Miami and Wabash

3rd District:  LaGrange, Steuben, Noble, Dekalb, Part of Kosciusko, Whitley, Allen, Huntington, Wells, Adams, most of Blackford, Jay

4th District:  Newton, Jasper, Benton, White, Cass, Warren, Tippecanoe, Carroll, Part of Howard, Fountain, Clinton, Montgomery, Most of Boone, Putnam, Hendricks

5th District:  Hamilton, Northern portion of Marion County, Madison, Tipton, Grant, Howard and a sliver of Blackford 

6th District:  Delaware, Randolph, Hancock, Henry, Wayne, Shelby, Rush, Fayette, Union, Bartholomew, Decatur, Franklin, Jennings, Ripley, Dearborn, Part of Scott, Jefferson, Ohio, Switzerland  

7th District:  Most of Marion County excluding the very northern portion of the district

8th:  Vermillion, Parke, Vigo, Clay, Sullivan, Owen, Greene, Knox, Daviess, Martin, Gibson, Pike, Dubois, Posey, Vanderburgh, Warrick, Spencer, Perry, a portion of Crawford

9th:  Most of Morgan, Johnson, Monroe, Brown, Lawrence, Jackson, Orange, Washington, part of Scott, most of Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Clark

Watch the press conference live today at 11:30 H/T Capitol & Washington.  We’ll post this afternoon with our analysis of the maps.

UPDATE:  Sounds like the Senate GOP maps will match the House GOP maps.  Here are links for the Congressional map and the Senate map from Senate Republicans.  H/T @indgop.

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2 Responses to Hear It Here First: The Congressional District Maps

  1. Wow, Jefferson County (Madison) where I grew up is in the same district as Delaware County (Muncie) where I went to school. As I recall that was one heck of a drive 2 hours plus.

  2. Yeah, they definitely made that a long district. Looks like 6 and 8 have the most counties in them.

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