By Nathan L. Gonzales and Jacob Rubashkin
Election Day is less than eight months away and a handful of states still haven’t finished drawing new congressional lines. But even with that uncertainty, the fight for the House majority is getting more clear.
The overall trajectory of the midterm elections remains…
After North Carolina’s first and second proposals for a new congressional map were struck down, the court-ordered third map finally made it official. The state’s redrawn districts will now create opportunities for Democrats to pick up seats in 2022, even if Republicans have the national environment in their favor.
North…
Hawaii is one of the only states with more than one House seat where congressional district lines don’t matter all that much.
At the most basic level, Hawaii is a very Democratic state. Joe Biden won it by 30 points, 64 percent to 34 percent, in 2020 and the GOP…
In 2011, the last vestiges of the Democratic legislative majority in Arkansas drew a congressional map aimed to send at least two Democrats in Congress even as the party was in freefall.
The plan backfired, and after the 2012 elections, Republicans held all four of the state’s seats.
But later…
With a Democratic governor and a GOP-controlled legislature, redistricting in Wisconsin was destined to be settled by the court system — especially given how acrimonious the relationship is between Gov. Tony Evers and Republicans in Madison.
But most of the drama was taken out of the redistricting process several months…
With a Democratic governor and GOP-controlled legislature, Pennsylvania’s redistricting process was bound for the courts from the beginning. Democrats even filed lawsuits preemptively in the commonwealth to prepare for that possibility.
After Gov. Tom Wolf vetoed the legislature’s map, the courts stepped in. First, a conservative lower court…
South Carolina’s new congressional map, approved in late January, will likely entrench Republicans’ electoral advantage for the next decade.
Compared to the outgoing districts, the new lines saw minimal changes — a conscious decision on the part of GOP mapmakers — with the most noticeable differences in the…
Despite some drama, Kentucky’s new congressional map is poised to solidify the delegation’s existing partisan breakdown.
Heading into redistricting, the Republican-controlled state legislature had the opportunity to go aggressive and potentially move the Democratic-held 3rd District into the GOP’s column. But ultimately Republicans left the 3rd intact, and…
With a House majority of just five seats, plus an unpopular president hanging over their heads, Democrats need all the help they can get in their quest to maintain control of Congress.
The party received a major boost last week when New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed into law a…
It might have required resorting to Plan B, but Virginia has a new congressional map.
The state’s bipartisan redistricting commission, which was approved by voters in 2020, failed to agree on new district lines in October, handing over control of the mapmaking process to the state Supreme Court.…
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