Now we know who wants to get whom – politically speaking.

The Democratic and Republican legislative maps are out and what’s the guiding principle?

If you guess, protect your friends and screw your enemies, you’re on the right track.

Before we get to that, it’s important to realize that neither of the two maps are likely to be the final ones. The state Apportionment Commission has a meeting scheduled for Wednesday to sample public comment on the partisan maps. The commission also will take written comments,

After all that, the bipartisan panel – and tiebreaker Phillip Carchman – will begin deliberating on the final map for the state’s 40 Legislative districts. The new groupings take effect with the 2023 election.

Dems now control both houses by rather comfortable margins and that probably won’t change, at least not in 2023.

But the Republican map would make things uncomfortable for four Democratic senators.

The GOP map puts incumbent Dems Linda Greenstein and Andrew Zwicker, who was just elected to the Senate, in the same district – the 17th. It does the same with Senators Robert Smith and Patrick Diegnan. Both would be in LD-18.

The Democrats have some remapping of their own in mind.

Their map would be bad news for the two Republican assemblymen from LD-26.

Jay Webber would see his hometown of Morris Plains move into LD-25 where there already are two GOP Assembly members – Brian Bergen and Aura Dunn.

And then there’s Christian Barranco, who’s been in the Assembly for about three weeks. The Dems would move his hometown of Jefferson west into the mostly Sussex County district of LD-24. Like LD-25, this would be three legislators for two seats. The current incumbents are Parker Space and Hal Wirths.

The Democratic map also puts two incumbent senators in the same 8th District. They would be Democrat Troy Singleton and Republican Jean Stanfield, who was just elected last fall.

Other than the pure partisanship, both maps would drastically change LD-40, where the senator is Republican Kristen Corrado.

The Democrats would create a long and squiggly-looking district running north to south from Franklin Lakes in Bergen County through parts of Passaic and Essex and down to Florham Park in Morris.

The GOP would actually make the district more competitive by bringing it east to Clifton.

Changes will be made before the maps are finalized, but at least those who care get to see the rough drafts.

The maps are on the website of the Apportionment Commission. But they are not identified as being “Republican” or “Democratic” maps.

Instead, the Democratic map is labeled “Turnpike” and the GOP map is called “Parkway.”