An Extremely Detailed Ranking of the Most Gerrymandered States in America
In a New York Times analysis, Eve Washington, Nate Cohn and Rumsey Taylor rank all 44 multi-district states by the fairness of their congressional maps, using 5,000 computer simulations per state and measures of seats gained and aggressiveness. They judge Texas's 2025 map America's worst gerrymander, a touch more extreme than California's Democratic counter-map, with Tennessee, North Carolina and Florida also near the top.
