Ohio’s redistricting process for the 2022 midterms appears to have ended as it began: messily. After a tumultuous process that saw the state legislature and a backup commission fail to (or even make a good-faith attempt to) pass bipartisan maps as required by a new state law passed by voters in 2018, the state legislature […]
In a sea of uncertainty, some things are easy to project, such as the redistricting process in Connecticut. For the third time in as many redistricting cycles, Connecticut’s Supreme Court had to step in to draw new congressional maps after both the state legislature and a backup commission failed to reach an agreement. Although Democrats […]
Democrats are poised to take over the governorship of Massachusetts from Republicans and will likely hold all of the Bay State’s U.S. House seats, yet potentially lose control of Congress. The Massachusetts congressional map received minimal modifications in redistricting. Not only will the state keep its nine seats, but those districts will mostly resemble the […]
With some bipartisan consensus, it appears Maryland finally has a final, final congressional map. Back in December, Democrats in the Maryland state legislature used their supermajority to pass a new congressional map over the objection of the state’s Republican governor, Larry Hogan. While that map’s lines were not nearly as tortured as the ones in […]
In Minnesota, reapportionment cut a little too close for comfort. Had New York State counted just 89 more people in the 2020 Census, it would have retained its 27th seat — and Minnesota would have lost its eighth seat. But that didn’t happen, and the Land of 10,000 Lakes will remain the Land of 8 […]