Nashua Wards & NH Senate Redistricting
Recently, Senator Gray raised an issue that if Nashua wards are drawn with equivalent or near
equivalent populations, Nashua will have to be split into 3 Senate districts. The Map-a-Thon
mapping team has outlined the problem below, along with a potential solution.
The example below shows possible Nashua Senate districts if wards were drawn with
equivalent population, but it involved districts with several towns outside the city limits.
Our goal, however, is to reduce this to two NH Senate districts representing Nashua. Our
solution is to balance and draw the Nashua wards within acceptable deviation so that combined
populations will allow for two Senate districts.
Here are the relevant numbers:
* 2020 Ideal Senate Population: 57,397
* Allowable 2020 Senate Populations: 54,528 — 60,266
* Nashua Population 2020: 91,322
* Number of wards: 9
¢ Ideal Population per ward: 10,147
¢ Allowable Population per ward: 9,639 — 10,654
