Redistricting in Utah

Try your hand at redistricting!

How the map works:

• Click on a county or city to cycle through the congressional districts.
• As you hover over a boundary, a pop-up box will appear informing you of the jurisdiction’s name, population, and current district of the boundary.
• You have two maps: a map of Utah counties and a map of Utah municipalities along the Wasatch Front.
• The Wasatch Front counties on the county map control the unincorporated counties and municipalities on the municipalities map. For example, if you click Salt Lake County on the state map, then unincorporated Salt Lake County and all the cities from Salt Lake City to Draper will cycle through to the next district.
• Color-coded district totals are summed either on the right or below the maps.
• Ideally, the goal is for 817,904 Utahns in each district.  However, we will say your districts are balanced enough if they each have between about 798,000 and 838,000.
• Some of the main goals are equal population, contiguity, and compactness. Read more about these goals in the Utah Foundation’s brief on Utah’s redistricting commission.
• See even more information on the Utah Foundation Redistricting in Utah project page.

Have a go at it. When you meet all the requirements listed above, take a screenshot and post it on your favorite social media. But tag us!

Please note: this map works best in a Chrome browser.