{"id":9500,"date":"2026-05-27T16:02:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T16:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=9500"},"modified":"2026-05-27T16:02:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T16:02:48","slug":"millions-of-people-have-been-placed-in-new-voting-districts-heres-where-the-redistricting-stands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=9500","title":{"rendered":"Millions of people have been placed in new voting districts. Here\u2019s where the redistricting stands"},"content":{"rendered":"

By DAVID A. LIEB<\/strong><\/p>\n

A frenzied redistricting effort ahead of the November elections has reshaped congressional voting districts for millions of Americans \u2014 and it isn\u2019t over yet.<\/p>

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Since President Donald Trump urged Texas Republicans to redraw U.S. House districts last year, Republicans in Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Florida and Tennessee also have enacted new maps that could help the party win additional seats in the midterm elections. Louisiana is expected to join those ranks soon, and Alabama Republicans are appealing a court decision blocking a map they support.<\/p>\n

So far, Republicans think they could gain as many as 14 seats from their redistricting efforts while Democrats think they could gain six seats from new districts in California and Utah.<\/p>\n

Trump hopes the unusual mid-decade redistricting can help Republicans retain control of the closely divided House, despite negative approval ratings and historical tendencies for the incumbent\u2019s party to lose seats in the midterms.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a look at the latest developments in the redistricting battle:<\/p>\n

Louisiana House to vote on redistricting<\/h4>\n

The U.S. Supreme Court in April struck down Louisiana\u2019s congressional map, which contains two majority-Black districts held by Democrats, as an illegal racial gerrymander. That prompted Republican Gov. Jeff Landry to postpone Louisiana\u2019s May 16 congressional primary until later this summer to allow time for redistricting.<\/p>\n

The state House is expected to consider a revised congressional map this week that gives Republicans an improved chance at winning one of those two seats. The Senate already passed a different version of the new map. The two chambers are trying to agree on a redistricting plan before the June 1 end of their legislative session.<\/p>

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Alabama is appealing a court order<\/h4>\n

Republican Attorney General Steve Marshall said he is appealing a preliminary injunction issued Tuesday by a federal judicial panel that prevents the state from using a Republican-drawn House map in the midterm elections.<\/p>\n

The judges said the plan, which includes only one majority-Black district, \u201cintentionally discriminated based on race.\u201d They ordered the state to continue using a court-imposed map containing two districts where Black residents compose a majority or close to it. Both of those seats currently are held by Democrats.<\/p>\n

A Missouri court is hearing objections<\/h4>\n

The Missouri Supreme Court already has rejected two challenges to a new U.S. House map that gives Republicans an improved chance to win another seat by reshaping a Democratic-held district based in Kansas City.<\/p>

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Judges are to hear arguments Wednesday in a third challenge claiming that no extraordinary circumstances existed for Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe to call lawmakers into a special session on redistricting last year.<\/p>

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