Gerrymandering and the Alabama senate race

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

Doug Jones won the state and prevailed in many counties in Tuesday's election, yet due to gerrymandering of Alabama's congressional districts, he had the majority of the vote in only one of the state's seven districts. This is not a prescription for a healthy democracy.

How Doug Jones lost in nearly every congressional district but still won the state

Preliminary Alabama election numbers crunched by J. Miles Coleman of Decision Desk HQ reveal something astonishing: Democrat Doug Jones lost in six of Alabama's seven congressional districts, but he still managed to beat Roy Moore by 1.5 percentage points in the entire state.

Voters in Alabama's 7th Congressional District opted for Jones by a whopping 78 percent to 21 percent margin, the most lopsided result in the state. But Jones lost everywhere else, usually by just a few percentage points.

The simple explanation for this is that nearly two thirds of voters the seventh district are African American, a group that overwhelmingly supported Jones in his contest with Roy Moore.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/12/13/how-doug-jones-lost-in-nearly-every-congressional-district-but-still-won-the-state/?utm_term=.d2fb04eb2b38

[Laxman]

1. A Few Adjustments To The Congressional Districts.....

and Alabama is sending three or four democrats to the Congress instead of one.