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Redistricting in Mexico

In: Operations Research Proceedings 2016

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  • Miguel Ángel Gutiérrez-Andrade

    (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Iztapalapa)

  • Eric Alfredo Rincón-García

    (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Azcapotzalco)

  • Sergio Gerardo de-los-Cobos-Silva

    (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Iztapalapa)

  • Antonin Ponsich

    (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Azcapotzalco)

  • Roman Anselmo Mora-Gutiérrez

    (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Azcapotzalco)

  • Pedro Lara-Velázquez

    (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Iztapalapa)

Abstract

Redistricting is the redrawing of the boundaries of legislative districts for electoral purposes in such a way that Federal or state requirements are fulfilled. In 2015 the National Electoral Institute of Mexico carried out the redistricting process of 15 states using a nonlinear programming model where population equality and compactness were considered as conflicting objective functions, whereas other criteria, such as contiguity, were included as constraints. In order to find high quality redistricting plans in acceptable amounts of time, two automated redistricting algorithms were designed: a Simulated Annealing based algorithm, and an Artificial Bee Colony inspired algorithm. Computational results prove that the population based technique is more robust than its counterpart for this kind of problems.

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  • Miguel Ángel Gutiérrez-Andrade & Eric Alfredo Rincón-García & Sergio Gerardo de-los-Cobos-Silva & Antonin Ponsich & Roman Anselmo Mora-Gutiérrez & Pedro Lara-Velázquez, 2018. "Redistricting in Mexico," Operations Research Proceedings, in: Andreas Fink & Armin Fügenschuh & Martin Josef Geiger (ed.), Operations Research Proceedings 2016, pages 301-306, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:oprchp:978-3-319-55702-1_40
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-55702-1_40
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