CO: County commissioner redistricting has competitive districts
The more we study and review the recent redistricting of El Paso county’s five county commissioner districts, the more we believe the commissioners did a reasonably fair job that gives the Democrats, or maybe even an independent, the opportunity to elect some county commissioners.
That is an accomplishment, because Democrats have not elected a county commissioner in El Paso County for half a century. The last Democrat to be elected was Stan Johnson back in the early 1970s.
For years the Republicans gerrymandered the county’s five county commissioner districts, drawing the boundary lines in such a way that only Republicans could be elected. The result was that El Paso County commissioner government was a Republican show with no Democrats allowed.
According to our calculations (based on data provided by El Paso County), the new redistricting will create two safe Republican seats (districts #1 and #2), one seat on the borderline between safe Republican and competitive (#4), and two competitive seats (#3 and #5).
https://gazette.com/election-coverage/county-commissioner-redistricting-has-competitive-districts-cronin-and-loevy/article_012156ce-4da3-11ee-9327-ff7898d93251.html