Measuring Congressional District Meandering
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Publication:6301905
arXiv1805.08208MaRDI QIDQ6301905FDOQ6301905
Authors: Eion Blanchard, Kevin P. Knudson 
Publication date: 19 May 2018
Abstract: In recent decades, state legislatures have often drawn U.S. Congressional voting districts that look---to the human eye---to be rather twisted. In this paper, we propose a method to measure how much districts "meander" via a computation of the medial axis of the region. We then compare this to the medial axis of the convex hull of the district to obtain the {em medial-hull ratio}: a dimensionless quantity that captures the district's irregularity. We compute this quantity for many example Congressional districts.
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