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[Results if Electoral College votes awarded by Congressional District] it would be an interesting math project for somebody sometime.

An Internet search turned up a partial list of votes by Congressional Districts at the Daily KOS, that is supposed to be updated. This is just straight data without their usual spin or vitriol.

I found this map on HuffPost in an article complaining about how the Republicans want to "rig" the next election by going to the Congressional District plan. They showed a map for the 2012 election under that method which showed Romney winning. Note how the blue areas are restricted to the Metro areas, which is my main bone of contention. (I suspect this election would show an even bigger ECV for Trump using that method.)

Most interesting, they show a map of CDs Romney would have won in those states that went for obama . . .

. . . so at first blush, it looks like the CD method would aid the Republican/rural vote. My gripe is that currently, rural voters in many states might as well stay home as the Metro vote steamrollers all over them. The cd approach would be a fairer - and closer - expression of the voters without using the suicidal Popular Vote method.

An addendum to the above post:

Fun With Party ID

A fascinating chart showing the WIDE swings in ECVs using the CD method - usually favoring the Republican/rural vote:

This is quite an interesting thread. One of the better discussions, IMO.

Nice find. To be fair, some blue CDs would come out of red states too. I just remember the fights in the Texas legislature with the Justice Department striking down CD lines the last time Texas won additional CDs (and more EVs by consequence) because they claimed some of the additional CDs needed to be waited toward Democrats and not all just by Republicans so, therefore, they become red or blue by judicial fiat as much as by population distribution.