House Reveals New District Maps for 2022

A few weeks ago we revealed the Oklahoma Senate redistricting plan, and intended to follow up with the House report shortly after. Thank God we held off, because the House still wasn't done making radical changes in some areas.
  The Senate maps are now awaiting final approval. The House maps are also awaiting the final signature. Suburban metro areas are receiving larger delegations while remote areas of the state are seeing their districts grow in geographic size. This is because  the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution requires equal representation in the districts. Every district must be of very similar population, in the most current census reports.  Wouldn't it be great if our school districts were reformed every decade, to assure our kids of an education environment where the resources are optimally and equitably spent? (I digress.)

  The House makeup will see some districts jump across the state. This is primarily done by finding a lawmaker who is not seeking reelection, then moving that constituency base to surrounding districts. 

Part 2 of our series of Redistricting

The new House District Maps proposed by the legislature.

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•   Such is the case for HD 36 (Sean Roberts-R) & HD 66 (Jadine Nollan-R). Both are served by lawmakers who are set to 'term out' next year, due to constitutional 12-year term limits.  Last month's proposed map had HD36 jumping over to NE Oklahoma City metro, and HD66 consuming much of the old HD36 area of rural Tulsa & Osage Counties.  The final map, however, moved HD66 to OKC metro and shifted HD36 to a NW Tulsa Metro area around Sand Springs.
• HD24 (Logan Phillips-R) radically changes from serving Okfuskee & Hughes Counties, to mostly serving southern Tulsa County.
  
• This also allows HD16 (Scott Fetgatter-R) to exit Tulsa County and re-center to Okmulgee & McIntosh Counties.
  
• HD18 (David Smith-R) then doubles in geographic size, to acquire all of Hughes and Okfuskee Counties.

The New Tulsa Metro House Districts

The New OKC Metro House Districts

  This appears to be the most 'bipartisan' redistricting project in recent decades. None of the Democrats I spoke with are in any way disappointed, or at least they are not publicly grumbling. I spoke with several Democrats about the project in the past week. In fact,  Democrat Minority Leader, Emily Virgin, led the effort to pass these Senate & House reports while serving as vice chair of the Redistricting Committee in the House.
  The resulting district maps look far less 'serpentine' than the 2011 districts, with a few exceptions.

Precincts will face significant changes, especially in the metro areas. Some new legislative districts cut through some current precincts.  When this becomes established law, the county election boards will take on a task of redrawing precincts. This will have to happen after the municipalities redraw council districts, as well as the school districts.