[rndmize]

> Now suppose you are tasked with drawing 5 districts for this region.

Or, we could go with proportional representation, make it a single district, and now we can reasonably expect to get 2-3 blue reps and 2-3 red ones, handling both the districting problem and efficiency/fairness problem in one go.

[shadofx]

How would that deal with popular independents? Would they get two seats if they pull 40% of the electorate?

[erentz]

Under an STV you're still voting for people. The independent with 40% of the vote would be elected and then a proportion of their unneeded votes would be transferred to the subsequent candidates on those voting papers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote#Findi...

[maxxxxx]

Yes. Much better.