Rural Perry, Juniata and Mifflin counties would be shifted into a new district. Most other changes in the midstate are minor.
is that it will keep the vast majority of them in the same district in this year’s election cycle.
The 11th District continues to cover all of Lancaster County and the fast-growing southern end of York County. The Carter group had argued that its map - which keeps more Pennsylvanians in their existing district than any of the alternative plans - should get the court’s edge because it applies the new census results with the least disruption to the 2018 map, which the Supreme Court at that time found “superior or comparable” to all plans submitted in that groundbreaking anti-gerrymandering case.
Harrisburg Regional Chamber wrote a letter to state lawmakers in December specifically asking for preservation of the current 10th, pointing to the federal government’s longtime definition of Dauphin, Cumberland and Perry counties as a statistical metropolitan area, traditional commuting and employment patterns and population growth since 2010 that warrants keeping the seat intact.
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