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i FFf1 I -f4 PROPOSED CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS Senate version House version COMPETING CONGRESSIONAL MAPS Unable to compromise on a single plan, lawmakers came up with two competing plans for dividing the state into six congressional districts: A Republican one and a Democrat one. Here are both plans, with inset maps showing the boundaries within Phoenix and Tucson. Both sides believe that their plan offers the better chance of ensuring minority candidates a shot at election. Both say their plan has the better chance of being approved by the U.S. Justice Department, a requirement of all changes in Arizona election law because of past abuses of minority voting rights.

If no compromise is reached, the issue will end up in federal court, where the boundaries will be drawn by a special three-judge panel. Total Percent Percent Percent Percent Percent Total Percent Percent Percent Percent Percent District population Black Hispanic Indian Republican Democrat District population Black Hispanic Indian Republican Democrat 1 610.871 2.47 12.49 2 52 52 78 36.28 1 610.871 1.7 7.9 0.8 57.0 31.4 2 610.871 6.57 56.24 6.28 25.23 65.00 2 610.871 5.7 50.0 4.1 30.2 59.2 3 610,871 2.12 11.83 2.80 51.94 37.61 610.872 1.7 10.4 2.6 51.1 38.4 4 610,872 1.33 6.11 0.79 56 85 30.88 4 610,872 1.3 6.0 0.7 57.9 30.3 8 610.872 3.36 14.45 1.06 4284 43.92 610.871 3.2 16.9 1.0 41.2 45 8 6 610.871 2.25 11.76 19.87 43.67 46.58 610,871 4.5 21.4 24.2 35.0 55.9 Proposed Proposed district boundaries County boundaries district boundaries County boundaries COCONINO APACHE APACHE ojinsress MOHAVE -r" 3 MOHAVE i 3 1 YAVAPAI YAVAPAI I NAVAJO NAVAJO I A PA7 I k. boeedaries cdm co nurse to collide It I I RIIA See metro "p-1 pJM Phoenix mapr I lor detail LA PAZ r- A riiA See metro I G'LA Phoenix mapU. t-n. I for detail 7 YUMA VJ p1 -7S jQP MARIC0PA 2 ZSmL GRAHAM I See metro I Tucson map iL I v.

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II II 1 1 --Lj I ReateVBjl Valencia d. I I RealeVBg Valencia Rd. I JT Jj SANXAVtFR Hughes (jjD SANXAVIER Hp Hughes w- QcD immmSsRVMKm indian reservation 5 CONGRESS, from page A 1 fourth. "Ours looks bad. Theirs is worse," state Rep.

Stan Barnes, R-Mesa, said of the odd-shape congressional districts being considered this week in what is expected to be a stalemated special session of the Legislature. The political stakes are so high that neither the House nor the Senate appears willing to give in, despite the hopes of Senate Majority Leader Alan Stephens, D-south Phoenix, and House Majority Leader Mark Killian, R-Mesa, of reaching a comprorr ise. "They'd rather take the risk and go to court," one legislative observer said. Both sides believe that their plan offers the better chance of ensuring minority candidates a shot at election. Both say their plan has the better chance of being approved by the U.S.

Justice Department, a requirement of all changes in Arizona election law because of past abuses of minority voting rights. Republicans charge that the Democrats' plan dilutes minority voting strength because "voting age" minorities do not make up a majority of southwestern Arizona's Congressional District 2. That seat is held by Rep. Ed Pastor, a Democrat and the first Hispanic to be elected to Congress from Arizona. Always heavily Democratic, District 2 had been home to veteran Rep.

Morris K. Udall until he resigned last year because of poor health. To ensure a majority of minority voters in District 2, as they believe is required by the federal Voting Rights Act, the Republicans have included as many Hispanic and Indian communities as possible. Democrats charge that the Republican plan amounts to packing minorities into one district, thus diluting their chances of electing a minority in any other district. That is exactly what the Democrats say happened during the last redis- tricting process in 1982, when the Indian tribes throughout northeastern Arizona were lumped into predominantly Anglo Republican District 4, which is dominated by interests in Scottsdale and northeast Phoenix and is represented by Rep.

Jon Kyi, R-Ariz. "I think there was an obvious attempt to fracture the Native American community," Stephens said. To prevent a repeat, the Democrats plan for Arizona's new 6th Congressional District granted to the state because of a population rise in the past decade attempts to create a second minority-majority district by including many Indian and Hispanic communities. As a result, it runs from the Hualapai Indian Reservation in northwestern Arizona to northern Pima County in south-central Arizona. Meanwhile, Stephens said, minority voters also would constitute a majority in District 2 under the Democrats' plan, leaving the state with two minority-majority districts.

"We were enhancing the minority voting strength in that district also," Stephens said. But, Killian said, the Democratic plan would mean that the voting-age population of District 6 would be under 50 percent. "There's no way in the world we're going to agree to that," he said. "Under the map the Democrats released, it creates a great district for Senator Stephens but hurts minorities. It's just the same thing the Democrats did to the minorities in the South all those years." The Republican plan for District 6 excludes many of the Indian communities around the Grand Canyon and provides what GOP legislators call a swing district that would be up for grabs.

"Arizonans like a fair fight," said state Rep. Bill Mundell, R-Chandler, who, like Stephens and Republican Maricopa County Supervisor Tom Freestone, is considering a bid for the new congressional seat. Under the Democratic plan, which calls for District 6 to be 56 percent Democratic and 35 percent Republican, Mundell said, "Whoever wins the Democratic primary wins. "It doesn't even give the Republicans a fair chance. I think the public is sick of incumbency protection.

That's what their plan would do, because the voter registration is so lopsided." Although Democratic voters would hold a 3-percentage-point edge under the Republican plan, many of the Democrats in the GOP version of District 6 have voted Republican in federal elections. Under both the Democratic and Republican plans, Kyi's District 4 shrinks to include just his northeast Valley power base. Although the shapes of District 3 in western Arizona and District 5 in southeastern Arizona differ somewhat in the Republican and Democratic plans, there is not much change from the existing districts. The Democrats' plan, however, would raise the percentage of Democratic voters in both about 1 percent. At first, that may seem insignificant.

But although Republicans would dominate District 3 in both plans, the GOP incumbent, Rep. Bob Stump, showed himself to be somewhat to Democratic challenger Roger Hartstone of Flagstaff in the 1990 election. Hartstone plans to chase Stump again in the Nov. 3 general election, so any additional advantage could throw the election to Hartstone. Meanwhile, Republican Rep.

Jim Kolbe has been winning elections in District 5 since 1984, despite a slight majority of Democratic voters. A slight increase in Democratic advantage, however, could prove fatal to Kolbe in a close race. Barnes, who is gunning for central Arizona's District 1 seat, held by Republican Jay Rhodes, said he expects to do well under either the Republican or Democratic plan. "I think people are fed up with Democratic control of the Congress and with Republicans who vote with the Democrats," Barnes said. "I think a lot of congressional seats will be changing hands this election.".