Final Legislative Redistricting Plan
See the maps of districts as adopted by the commission on February 12, 2013
Tentative Commission Plan
At its August 13-17, 2012, meeting, the commission tentatively adopted a plan for 100 state House districts. The Tenative Commission Plan, as it was called, was further revised on October 25th. Senate districts were created on November 30. Additional amendments were made on December 6. The final plan was adopted on February 12, 2013.
Senate Draft Pairings
After its November 15, 2012, public hearing, pairs of commissioners submitted proposals for how they would pair House districts to form Senate districts. They also proposed assignments of holdover senators to districts for the final 2 years of their terms.
***Tips on understanding the Senate district pairings:
- Black stars in proposal maps refer to where holdover senators live.
- Red labels in the proposal maps are the proposed Senate district numbers, with the name of any holdover senators that would be assigned to that district. If no name appears, the district would hold an election in 2014 for a senator.
- Blue labels in the proposal maps refer to the state House districts from the Tentative Commission Plan that compose the Senate districts.
Proposals
- Commissioners Bennion and Vaughey pairings table REVISED 3:50 pm on 11/26
- Commissioners Lamson and Smith pairings table (REVISED 3:15 pm on 11/26)
House Draft Plans
At its July 2011 meeting, the commission directed staff to several draft plans using themes outlined by the commission. Each resulting plan is named according to the theme. A fifth plan was offered at the February 17, 2012, meeting by Commissioners Joe Lamson and Pat Smith.
Plans drafted by Legislative Services Staff at the request of the commission
Urban Rural: emphasize clear lines between population centers and rural areas
Existing: use the existing legislative district lines as a starting point for new lines
Deviation: emphasize the criterion on relative population equality between the districts
Subdivision: attempt to keep political subdivisions intact when possible
Plan offered by Commissioners Lamson and Smith
Communities: integrates Montana communities of interest within multiple criteria
Plan offered by commissioners Bennion and Vaughey
Criteria Plan
By the Numbers Reports
The By the Numbers reports combine existing maps and numbers into one document to help the public discover how the current redistricting proposals will affect their county. Each report includes the county’s population as of the 2010 Census, maps of the county under each proposal, and various statistics about the makeup and population of each district in that county. Although By the Numbers reports will not be available for every county, all the maps and reports on which the By the Numbers series are based are available for each draft plan.
Draft Maps Submitted by the Public
- Gallatin County Clerk and Recorder’s Office Plan #1
- County view (pdf)
- Greater Bozeman area (pdf)
- Bozeman (pdf)
- Descriptive emails (pdf)
- Plan .shp files
- Gallatin County Clerk and Recorder’s Office Plan #2
- County view (pdf)
- Greater Bozeman area (pdf)
- Bozeman (pdf)
- Descriptive emails (pdf)
- Plan .shp files
- Gallatin County GIS Plan #1
- County view (pdf)
- Plan .shp files
- Gallatin County GIS Plan #2
- Yellowstone County, Cities of Billings and Laurel
- County view (pdf)
- Greater Billings area (pdf)
- Billings (pdf)
- Billings with Census blocks (pdf)
- District descriptions
- Plan .shp files
- Yellowstone County Commissioners’ resolution (tif)
- City of Laurel resolution (tif)
- Recommendation Letter – Yellowstone County Election Administrator
- Great Falls Chamber of Commerce
- County view (pdf)
- City view (pdf)
- District descriptions (pdf)
- Plan .shp files
- Broadwater County Board of County Commissioners
- Jefferson County Plan – Commissioner Leonard Wortman
- Written description (pdf)
- Part 2 (pdf)
- Part 3 (pdf)
- Ravalli County legislative delegation
- Map (pdf)
2011 District Information
- Map of the 2011 Legislature
- Current district map w/ 2010 data — pdf
- Table: current house district statistics
- Table: current senate district statistics
