BY WALLACE McKELVEY | WMcKelvey@pennlive.com

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Pennsylvania's Supreme Court issued a new Congressional district map Monday that eliminates many of the worst gerrymanders from the 2011 redistricting.

The Supremes renumbered the state’s districts, which can make some comparisons between the two maps a bit hairy. Also worth remembering? The GOP will likely challenge this map in the days to come.

Here’s a look at how the changes played out. The Supremes’ map, in blue, is either on the left or the top. The 2011 map, in beige, is on the right or the bottom.

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DISTRICT 1 becomes DISTRICT 2 (sort of)

Incumbent: Bob Brady, D

Philadelphia’s Congressional districts are so utterly transformed in the Supremes’ map that you might as well flip a coin for which new district is the closest analogue. This one hews closer to the river, picking up Center City and North Philadelphia…

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DISTRICT 2 becomes DISTRICT 3 (sort of)

Incumbent: Dwight Evans, D

…while District 3 picks up a section of South Philly and West Philadelphia. Chester, meanwhile, ends up in the new District 5 (see below) with the rest of Delaware County.

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DISTRICT 3 becomes DISTRICT 16

Incumbent: Mike Kelly, R

The Supremes unite the city of Erie with the rest of its county by jettisoning Armstrong and parts of Butler and Clarion counties.

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DISTRICT 4 becomes DISTRICT 10 (sort of)

Incumbent: Scott Perry, R

Let’s call this the “PennLive District” because it encompasses all of the population centers in coverage area: Carlisle, Harrisburg and York. It also unites the east and west shores, which were certainly communities of interest but have long been separated.

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DISTRICT 5 becomes DISTRICT 15

Incumbent: Glenn Thompson, R

This sprawling north-central district gets a bit more compact, losing its half of Erie County and State College in favor of Cambria and Indiana counties.

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DISTRICT 6 becomes DISTRICT 5 (although not really)

Incumbent: Ryan Costello, R

Southeast Pennsylvania’s districts were so mangled in the 2011 map—see District 7—that coming up with analogues in the Supremes’ map quickly becomes a futile effort. A sliver of the old District 6 is in the new District 5, so we’ll call that close enough. The new district encompasses all of Delaware County.

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DISTRICT 7 becomes DISTRICT 6 (sort of)

Incumbent: Pat Meehan, R

District 7, the infamous “Goofy kicking Donald Duck” gerrymander, was so contorted it’s hard to say what its corresponding district is on the Supremes’ map. District 6, a fairly vanilla district that covers Reading, southern Berks County and all of Chester County, is probably the closest analogue.

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DISTRICT 8 becomes DISTRICT 1

Incumbent: Brian Fitzpatrick, R

Not a whole lot changes here in this Bucks County district.

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DISTRICT 9 becomes DISTRICT 13

Incumbent: Bill Shuster, R

The Supremes normalize this wonky district by lopping off Cambria, Fayette and Indiana counties in favor of Adams, Huntingdon, Somerset and rural portions of Cumberland and Westmoreland counties.

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DISTRICT 10 becomes DISTRICT 8 (sort of)

Incumbent: Tom Marino, R

Northeast Pennsylvania gets its own district in the Supremes’ map by jettisoning the rural counties formerly included in District 10 (they’re in District 12 now) and picking up Scranton and Wilkes-Barre.

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DISTRICT 11 becomes DISTRICT 12 (sort of)

Incumbent: Lou Barletta, R

District 11, as drawn in 2011, didn’t make a lot of sense. It stretched across nine separate counties from coal country up in the northeast all the way down to Shippensburg. The closest analogue on the Supremes’ map is District 12. It’s still quite sprawling—but it sticks mostly to rural, mountainous areas of north-central Pennsylvania and manages to keep most of its counties united (along with State College).

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DISTRICT 12 becomes DISTRICT 17 (sort of)

Incumbent: Keith Rothfus, R

This crazy district, shaped a bit like a Star Wars jedi fighter in the 2011 map, is utterly transformed. It keeps all of Beaver County and picks up more of the rural areas to the north and west of Pittsburgh. In the process, it loses the hammer shape that stretched across Westmoreland, Cambria and Somerset counties.

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DISTRICT 13 becomes DISTRICT 4

Incumbent: Brendan Boyle, D

Montgomery County, by virtue of population, will always have to be split between multiple districts. This time out, the Supremes got this suburban Philly district as close to contiguous as any proposal so far.

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DISTRICT 14 becomes DISTRICT 18

Incumbent: Michael Doyle, D

Aside from switching numbers, this Pittsburgh-based district doesn’t change all that much. It hugs county lines a bit better and, in the process, loses McKees Rocks.

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DISTRICT 15 becomes DISTRICT 7 (sort of)

Incumbent: Charlie Dent, R

There really is no good analogue for District 15, which in the 2011 map sprawled from the New Jersey border all the way to the eastern half of Dauphin County. Now, much of Lehigh Valley is included in its own district, which encompasses Allentown, Easton and East Stroudsburg.

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DISTRICT 16 becomes DISTRICT 11

Incumbent: Lloyd Smucker, R

Peacock no more! In the Supreme Court’s map, Lancaster County gets its own district, lumped in with southern York County. It no longer includes Reading.

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DISTRICT 17 becomes DISTRICT 9 (sort of)

Incumbent: Matthew Cartwright, D

Every proposed map jettisoned District 17’s distinctive shape—an opera singer mid-aria—and so does this one. For District 9, Schuylkill County forms the center of a somewhat angular district that includes much of Berks, Carbon, Columbia and Lebanon counties, as well as the rural western end of Luzerne County.

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DISTRICT 18 becomes DISTRICT 14

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

This district becomes a lot more compact under the new map, losing the eastern chunk of Westmoreland County and picking up all of Fayette County. The northern boundary arcs around the Pittsburgh suburbs.

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What do you think about the map? Let us know in the comments!

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A reminder: The 2011 map

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A reminder: GOP leadership proposal

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A reminder: Gov. Tom Wolf's proposal

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And... the Supreme's 2018 map

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