Mid-2000 Redistricting Proposals
Proposition 77 (Nov. 2005 special eleciton ballot).
Efforts to to change Califiornia's redistricting process continued apace after legislative districts were redrawn in 2001. These efforts culminated mid-decade in Proposition 77, a proposal to give redistricting authority to a panel of retired judges.
The Library's Hot Topic on Propositon 77 provides an overview of the measure and other reform proposals, and includes includes links to reports, official voter information, public opinion polls and news stories.
2000
Redistricting
The
2001 redistricting plan was enacted in two separate bills: AB632
covering Senate and Congressional districts, and SB802 covering
Assembly and Board of Equalization districts. The bills passed
the legislature September 13, 2001, and were signed by the governor
September 26, 2001.
Prior
proposed plans are available at the Assembly Elections,
Reapportionment, and Constitutional Amendments Committee website.
Online
statistical profiles and high and low resolution district maps
are available at the Assembly and Senate websites:
Assembly
Districts (SB 802), Sept. 13, 2001.
Senate
Districts (AB632), Sept. 8, 20001.
California
Congressional Districts (AB632), Sept. 12, 2001.
Board
of Equalization Districts (SB 802), Sept. 13, 2001.
Individual
Maps of the California Election Districts. Sacramento:
Capitol Enquiry, 2002.
Detailed maps in binder.
[Print. IGSL reference collection. Call no.: 2002 0671.]
District
Profiles of the California Election Districts. Sacramento:
Capitol Enquiry, 2002.
Includes maps, demographic information and registration/voting
data.
[Print. IGSL reference collection. IGSL call no.: 2002 0447.]
California
Journal's Legislative District Maps. Sacramento: California
Journal, 2002.
Issued as a special section of of January 2002 California
Journal.
Statewide maps with insets for the San Francisco and Los Angeles
metropolitan regions.
[Print. IGSL Reference collection. IGSL call no.: 2001 0925.]
California Legislative District Profiles
California legislative district profiles written as an Undergraduate Research Project in Political Science 171, California Politics, Prof. Bruce Cain, Spring Semester 2005, University of California, Berkeley.
2000 Redistricting Bibliography
Citations to journal articles, reports and some newspaper articles
in the years 2000-2002.
1990 Court-Ordered Redistricting
Report and Recommendations of the Special Masters on Reapportionment, 1991.
Archive of Background Materials Used in the Deliberations of the 1990 Special Masters.
[Housed at the IGS Library and described in this Finding aid.]
Online maps from the Statewide Database, with brief district descriptions provided by the California Journal: Assembly | Senate | Congressional districts.
California 1992 Court-Ordered Reapportionment Maps. Sacramento: Secretary of State), 1992.
Assembly Districts. [Print. IGSL call no.: f 92 00633]
Senate Districts. [Print. IGSL call no.: f 92 00636]
Congressional Districts. IGSL call no.: f 92 00635]
Detailed maps.
California District Maps, 1992-2001. Sacramento: Capitol Enquiry, 1992.
Detailed maps in binder.
[Print. IGSL call no.: 93 01738].
California Journal's Legislative District Maps of California. Sacramento: California Journal, 1992?
Statewide maps with insets for the San Francisco and Los Angeles metropolitan regions.
[Print. IGSL call no.: 92 00401.]
An overview of 1980s redistricting, with citations to maps and reports.
1970 Court-Ordered Redistricting
Report and Recommendations of the Special Masters on Reapportionment, 1973.
[Print. IGSL call no.: JK2462 S9s.r]
Archive of Background Materials Used in the Deliberations of the 1970 Special Masters.
[Housed at the IGS Library and described in this Finding Aid.]
California Legislative & Congressional Districts for 1974-1980: Official Maps, Descriptions and Statistics. Claremont, Calif.: Center for California Public Affairs, 1974.
[Print. IGSL call no.: JK400:R3 C2cp.Cle.]
The reports and studies in this brief bibliography provide historical background on California redistricting.
The
redistricting database for the state of California. Data collected
and processed by the Database is the basis for state legislative
and local redistricting in 2001.
Check
these sites for more information and perspectives on redistricting.
