Incarcerated populations in Minnesota House districts

**Appendix 1.** This table shows that relying on Census figures for drawing districts masks inequalities in voting power between districts. While Minnesota districts appear to have very low differences in population from each other, and therefore deviate very little from the ideal district size. Once the Census data is adjusted to exclude the incarcerated non-residents from a prison district, however, the resulting deviation from ideal district size is not only greater than Minnesotans have come to expect from their government, it begins to approach constitutional limits of equality. (All data is based on the 2000 Census.)
District	Current Representative	Census population	% deviation from ideal district size of 36,713	Prison population	Actual resident population without people in prisons	% deviation between actual resident population and ideal district size of 36,713
56A	Julie Bunn (DFL)	36,812	0.27%	1,746	35,066	-4.48%
20A	Andrew Falk (DFL)	36,641	-0.19%	1,324	35,317	-3.80%
52A	Bob Dettmer (R)	36,767	0.15%	1,124	35,643	-2.91%
26B	Patti Fritz (DFL)	36,496	-0.59%	1,097	35,399	-3.58%
26A	Kory Kath (DFL)	36,780	0.18%	943	35,837	-2.38%
08A	Bill Hilty (DFL)	36,721	0.02%	861	35,860	-2.32%
08B	Tim Faust (DFL)	36,998	0.78%	847	36,151	-1.53%
30A	Tina Liebling (DFL)	36,890	0.48%	839	36,051	-1.80%
15B	Larry Haws (DFL)	36,573	-0.38%	800	35,773	-2.56%
06B	Mary Murphy (DFL)	36,697	-0.04%	599	36,098	-1.67%
35A	Michael Beard (R)	37,025	0.85%	332	36,693	-0.05%
17B	Jeremy Kalin (DFL)	36,762	0.13%	252	36,510	-0.55%

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