The North Carolina General Assembly's Information Systems Division is responsible for enabling State legislators, legal counsel, and division staff to draw and analyze political districts. The system used for the 1990 census was a mainframe-based system, but the division wished to develop a similar system on the PC platform in order to increase efficiency, flexibility, stability, and increased scalability within the Windows environment for the upcoming 2000 census. This paper focuses on the development of the application using Microsoft's Visual Basic and Esri's MapObjects. Issues concerning system design, database implementation, performance, GIS analysis tools, and future improvements are examined.