Central European Journal of Operations Research

, Volume 25, Issue 4, pp 879–888 | Cite as

Optimal partisan districting on planar geographies

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Abstract

We show that optimal partisan districting and majority securing districting in the plane with geographical constraints are NP-complete problems. We provide a polynomial time algorithm for determining an optimal partisan districting for a simplified version of the problem. In addition, we give possible explanations for why finding an optimal partisan districting for real-life problems cannot be guaranteed.

Keywords

Gerrymandering Computational complexity Dynamic programming Polyominoes Pack and crack 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Balázs Fleiner
    • 1
  • Balázs Nagy
    • 1
  • Attila Tasnádi
    • 2
  1. 1.Department of MathematicsCorvinus University of BudapestBudapestHungary
  2. 2.MTA-BCE “Lendület” Strategic Interactions Research Group, Department of MathematicsCorvinus University of BudapestBudapestHungary

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