Prior to redistricting, the 23rdAssembly District packed the liberal Milwaukee North Shore suburbs of Whitefish Bay, Glendale, Fox Hills and Bayside and diluted them with a conservative chunk of Ozaukee County. Now the district includes all of Milwaukee County's northeast suburbs except for Shorewood. The district also include Mequon-Thiensville, the most liberal area of Ozaukee County, which has been trending purple over the past decade of so.
Democrat Deb Andraca flipped the 23rd in 2020, creating a solidly Democratic district in the process. Her GOP challenger, Aleaner Pabonnie appears to be running a stealth campaign.
Related reading:
Wisconsin Applied Population Lab, 6/18/2018
Malia Jones explains:
Two core concepts of gerrymandering were central to the arguments presented to the high court: cracking and packing. A third process, known as stacking, also crops up in gerrymandered political maps, but was not the focus of Gill v. Whitford.
Cracking and packing both refer to specific ways of drawing legislative boundaries with the outcomes of elections in mind. These two processes operate in tension with one another, but both can be implemented by a party in power seeking to maximize its electoral chances through gerrymandering.
Packing refers to the practice of drawing particular districts in such a way as to ensure that another party's candidate wins that seat by a tremendous margin. Although the opposing party is all but guaranteed the seat, packing makes surrounding districts less competitive, and thus tips the balance of power in the legislative body overall toward the ruling party.
Cracking involves drawing districts in such a way as to divide a concentration of specific types of voters across several districts such that they are a minority in each one, with practically no hope of achieving representation in any of the districts. This practice also helps make districts less competitive. [emphasis added]
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