Tom Baldwin of Gannett penned an article this weekend relating to New Jersey Congressional districts maintaining that those in the central part of the state appear to be the most tortured. Ernest Reock, professor emeritus in the Center for Government Services at Rutgers also pointed out some population shifts that could make the legislative reapportionment process more interesting, as follows:
As for state legislative districts, Reock says districts in Essex, Union and Passaic counties, along with areas of Hudson and Mercer counties, have been slow to grow and the districts there may need to be expanded geographically in 2011.
The fastest-growing legislative districts, he said, are the 30th in Burlington, Mercer, Monmouth and Ocean counties; the 9th in Atlantic, Burlington and Ocean counties; the 23rd in northwest New Jersey; and the 2nd in Atlantic County.
These, he says, may require geographic downsizing with their newer, more dense populations.
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