BY WALLACE McKELVEY | WMcKelvey@pennlive.com

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Pennsylvania House and Senate GOP leadership unveiled proposed Congressional district lines Friday after the state Supreme Court ruled the previous map unconstitutional.

A number of districts, including the cartoonishly shaped 7th, would change drastically if this version of the map receives the approval of Gov. Tom Wolf and the court. As yet, it's not clear how this would impact the partisan makeup of the Keystone State's Congressional delegation.

Here's a look at how the changes played out. The current map is either on the left or the top. The proposed map is on the right or bottom.

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DISTRICTS 1, 2 and 13

Incumbents: Bob Brady, D; Dwight Evans, D; Brendan Boyle, D

For now, we're lumping these three districts together—at least until we get a more detailed map. What we can tell you: Philadelphia's population means that it would have to occupy multiple districts. The GOP map divides it between these three districts. Downtown and South Philly join Chester in the 1st district. North and West Philly occupy the 2nd District and Northeast Philadelphia is combined with Norristown and Willow Grove in Montgomery County.

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DISTRICT 3

Incumbent: Mike Kelly, R

The greatest change here is that the eastern half of Erie County, currently in the 5th district, would join their neighbors. Crawford County, however, would be split in half and Lawrence County would leave the 3rd district in favor of the 12th.

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DISTRICT 4

Incumbent: Scott Perry, R

Under the GOP plan, District 4 loses part of Harrisburg and the west shore communities of Cumberland County in favor of Franklin County.

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DISTRICT 5

Incumbent: Glenn Thompson, R

Under the GOP proposal, this district loses Erie and Huntingdon counties but sprawls eastward across Tioga and Bradford.

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DISTRICT 6

Incumbent: Ryan Costello, R

District 6 gets a lot less convoluted in the GOP proposal but it still manages to narrowly avoid picking up Reading while joining three other districts that carve up the Democrat-rich Montgomery County.

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DISTRICT 7

Incumbent: Pat Meehan, R

Under the GOP proposal, the cartoon characters are gone. Instead, district 7 straddles the boundaries of suburban Chester, Delaware and Montgomery County while narrowly avoiding Democrat-rich Norristown.

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DISTRICT 8

Incumbent: Brian Fitzpatrick, R

Not a whole lot changes for the 8th. Under the GOP proposal, it encompasses all of Bucks County and a nubbin of Montgomery County.

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DISTRICT 9

Incumbent: Bill Shuster, R

The drastic changes to the 12th district have the effect of normalizing its neighbor to the east, which would still contain Altoona, Indiana and Uniontown. Under the GOP proposal, however, the 9th would lose Franklin County to the 4th district in exchange for Huntingdon and part of Mifflin counties.

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DISTRICT 10

Incumbent: Tom Marino, R

This district undergoes a substantial change in the proposal. In its current form, the district arcs around Scranton, hugging the border of New York and New Jerey. The GOP map would create a landlocked district that now includes Cumberland County and the northern half of Dauphin County.

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DISTRICT 11

Incumbent: Lou Barletta, R

Like the 10th district, this one gets a bit more compact in the GOP proposal. It lumps Harrisburg and the eastern shore of the Susquehanna in with far-flung Luzerne County.

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DISTRICT 12

Incumbent: Keith Rothfus, R

This proposal would utterly transform the 12th district, which is currently shaped a bit like a Star Wars Jedi starfighter. Gone are Johnstown and Somerset. Instead, the district adds Lawrence County and a chunk of northern Washington County near Pittsburgh.

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DISTRICT 14

Incumbent: Michael Doyle, D

Not much has changed for this district, which encompasses Pittsburgh and McKeesport.

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DISTRICT 15

Incumbent: Charlie Dent, R

The 15th, which currently stretches all the way from Bethlehem to Lebanon County, gets a lot more compact in the GOP proposal. Now the Democratic strongholds of Easton and Allentown are housed in the same district, along with much of Carbon County.

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DISTRICT 16

Incumbent: Lloyd Smucker, R

This peacock-shaped district gets its lines normalized yet it still lumps Reading in with Lancaster but eschews Chester County (the head of the current map’s peacock).

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DISTRICT 17

Incumbent: Matthew Cartwright, D

Under the GOP proposal, the 17th loses its distinctive shape—like an opera singer mid-aria. But it still groups the Democratic strongholds of Scranton and Wilkes-Barre with suburban Monroe and Pike County and more rural areas to the north and west.

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DISTRICT 18

Incumbent: Vacant (formerly Tim Murphy, R, who resigned)

Aside from picking up the northwest corner of Fayette County and losing the northern end of Washington County, not a lot changes in the GOP proposal for this district.

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What do you think about the GOP leadership's proposed map? Let us know in the comments!

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