Gerrymandering Simulator
The households stay put. Choose a side, draw five connected districts, then compare the seats your map produces with all maps that follow the same rules.
One town. Five seats.
15 Hill · 10 Valley
Each district needs five households, joined side to side. Three votes win its seat. The households stay exactly where they are.
● Hill household · ○ Valley household. Numbered outlines name districts.
Your district notebook
Can Valley win a majority of the seats? Make a map, check it, then compare it with every legal division of this town.
| District | Homes | Hill | Valley | Seat |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0 / 5 | 0 | 0 | Not ready |
| 2 | 0 / 5 | 0 | 0 | Not ready |
| 3 | 0 / 5 | 0 | 0 | Not ready |
| 4 | 0 / 5 | 0 | 0 | Not ready |
| 5 | 0 / 5 | 0 | 0 | Not ready |
25 households have no district yet.
Draw the districts with your class
Put it on a slide and your audience joins from their phones — no app and no accounts for them. Free to start.
Draw the districts with your class