•Each district should consist ….

•Each district should consist of compact territory and be contiguous.

Goal criteria for legislative districts include:

•No plan may be drawn to unduly favor a political party.

•The commission shall attempt to minimize dividing cities, towns, counties and federal reservations between districts when possible.

•The commission may consider keeping communities of interest intact. Communities of interest can be based on Indian reservations, urban interests, suburban interests, rural interests, tribal interests, neighborhoods, trade areas, geographic locations, demographics, communication and transportation networks, social, cultural, historic and economic interests and connections or occupations and lifestyles.

•The commission may consider competitiveness of districts when drawing plans.

•The commission shall consider assigning holdover senators to the Senate District which contains the greatest number of residents of the district from which they were previously elected when possible.