California Congressional District Map

California is the fifth largest economy in the world, and thus is a vastly important state in America. There are fifty-three districts and maps of the California congressional districts. They are available either as a large map of California with all fifty-three districts laid out, usually color-coded by district, or as fifty-three individual maps highlighting each region. The maps are, in general, viewable on any computer screen and also can be downloaded and printed in a PDF format making it viewable in Adobe Acrobat or other programs that can read PDF format.

Interestingly, the fifty-three districts are primarily distributed by party voting tendencies. This was intentionally done in a district re-structuring in 2000, and worked to great effect in the election in 2004 with each district, with the exception of only three, being won by a particular political party by sixty percent or greater. Thus, the California Congressional District Map is not broken down by such factors as economic climate, industry, or natural or man-made boundaries. It is divided by political agenda, which makes the democratic process for both state and national elections more predictable and seemingly easier to tabulate.

Of the current California Congressional District Map, only nineteen of the fifty-three districts are currently represented by a Republican, despite the fact that the Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, is a Republican. In 2006, The Governor requested that a redistribution of districts occur and that it should be handled by a group of retired judges. The motion was not approved and not adopted, thus the fifty-three districts remain as they are.

In 2006, the California Congressional District Map remained stable as only one seat out of all fifty-three changed hands. With the incumbent winning fifty-two times, the politically situated map created in 2000 holds to form six years later, and thus its purpose of creating a predictable formula for representatives to gain election has become successful.