{"id":3106,"date":"2016-10-20T08:36:59","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T12:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=3106"},"modified":"2016-10-20T08:47:03","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T12:47:03","slug":"a-map-of-proposed-constituency-boundaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/10\/a-map-of-proposed-constituency-boundaries\/","title":{"rendered":"A Map of Proposed Constituency Boundaries"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"obrien-constituency\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Oliver O’Brien’s map of proposed electoral constituency district\u00a0changes in the United Kingdom<\/a> uses a slider to shift between current and proposed boundaries, which I think is a neat way of going about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oliver O’Brien’s map of proposed electoral constituency district\u00a0changes in the United Kingdom uses a slider to shift between current and proposed boundaries, which I think is a neat way of going about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[330],"tags":[534,71],"class_list":["post-3106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-politics","tag-electoral-districts","tag-uk","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1805693,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/12\/how-redistricting-is-changing-the-congressional-map\/","url_meta":{"origin":3106,"position":0},"title":"How Redistricting Is Changing the Congressional Map","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"16 December 2021","format":"link","excerpt":"The Washington Post looks at how redistricting has changed the U.S. congressional electoral map so far. \u201cAs of Dec. 15, half of the 50 states have settled on the boundaries for 165 of 435 U.S. House districts. 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