The Democratic-leaning City of Sheboygan (population 50,000) gets carved up into 2 districts that connect like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. The result is a dilution of the power of Democratic voters.
Headline: PBS Wisconsin, 12/7/2022
"With the splitting of the city with gerrymandering, that's the big kicker," said Calvin Potter, a former longtime Democratic state lawmaker who was Gov. Tony Evers' high school civics teacher in Plymouth. "It took a city that in the early decades ... voted 62% Democrat (and) made two districts in this county — both 57% Republican." [emphasis added]
When Republicans redrew the lines again in 2021, they further boosted their advantage in the Assembly. Compared with nearly 1,000 statehouse elections across the country between 1972 and 2020, Wisconsin's efficiency gap in 2018 ranked as the fourth most skewed toward Republicans at 15.4%, according to researchers at Harvard and George Washington universities. Wisconsin's 2022 results were even more skewed at 16.6%, a Wisconsin Watch analysis shows.Related posts: GOP gerrymandering spotlight on Wisconsin Assembly
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