The Washington State Redistricting Commission’s final plan for redrawing the political maps for congressional and legislative representation were published shortly after the commission took its vote late Sunday evening. Using the Google Earth overlays provided by the Commission on its website, NW Daily Marker has created an interactive map of each set of district boundaries (below) for our readers as

After a year-long process, the four voting members of the bipartisan Washington State Redistricting Commission unanimously approved new political maps for congressional and legislative districts midday Sunday, with only hours remaining until the legal deadline to submit the new boundaries to the state legislature for review. Talks had stalled during the previous week on the issue of how Hispanics should

The Washington State Redistricting Commission failed to produce new maps for congressional and legislative districts by the close of 2011 and will reconvene this morning for one last day of talks to try and beat the legal deadline of midnight January 1st. A new proposal for Eastern Washington’s legislative districts was presented late Saturday, just before the commission adjourned shortly

The Washington State Redistricting Commission adjourned Friday after a long day spent hashing over minute reconciliation details on areas of consensus agreement, while leaving the unresolved issues regarding Eastern Washington’s legislative maps out of the conversation. The only discussion around what House Democratic appointee Dean Foster has called an “impasse” took place shortly after the commission convened when House Republican

While four partisan appointed members of the state redistricting commission have begun to engage in open session political maneuvering around pivotal legislative districts in Eastern Washington, the tension has not yet transferred into any talk to revisit the congressional map proposed by Senate Republican appointee Slade Gorton and Senate Democratic appointee Tim Ceis earlier this week. Feel cautiously safe then

OLYMPIA — The Washington State Redistricting Commission is meeting Thursday morning to discuss how to best resolve an impasse between the Republican and Democratic commissioners working to define legislative districts in Eastern Washington. The announcement that a significant roadblock After each of the commission’s four partisan appointees released their proposals in September, House Democratic appointee Dean Foster and House Republican

OLYMPIA – Washington’s redistricting commission released what is likely to be its final proposal for reapportioning the state’s residents into equally-populated congressional districts Wednesday morning, including plans for a majority-minority district in South King County, and situating the new 10th district around the state’s capital. But all of the work made to reach agreement on congressional maps could be erased

OLYMPIA — The Washington State Redistricting Commission announced its proposal for a new congressional map this morning and made public the two maps below for review. The first map shows the proposal for the entire state map and the second is an inset of the Puget Sound region showing the position of a new 10th congressional district and the creation

Surprises may be in store for politicos and voters when the State Redistricting Commission meets Wednesday morning in Olympia, reportedly to reveal the final congressional map agreed on by at least three of the commission’s four voting members, based on early information from a source with the commission. Although the precise precinct-by-precinct details of the map are being withheld, the

An agreement has been reached between the four voting members of the state redistricting commission on a new map of Washington State’s Congressional districts, a source with the Washington State Redistricting Commission confirmed Tuesday afternoon. Details about the map and how the new boundaries could affect incumbents or candidates are not being discussed in advance of tomorrow anticipated public unveiling.