The new, partisan maps come on the heels of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s launch of California’s redistricting campaign on Thursday, an effort he touted as meant to favor Democrats in California in the upcoming midterm elections as a counter to similar efforts in Republican-led states elsewhere in the country.

California’s Democratic leaders of the state legislature could secure their spots in Congress if the state’s new proposed Congressional districts are approved.

Louisiana redistricting map blocked by appeals court for diluting Black votes while Supreme Court considers broader case on race-conscious congressional district drawing.

COLUMBUS — Ohio’s elected leaders are mandated this year to redraw boundaries of the state’s 15 congressional districts amid a brewing fight for political control of the U.S. House of Representatives as the 2026 midterm election approaches.

A partisan move by Texas to redraw its congressional maps in an unusually timed effort to secure five more GOP seats in the U.S. House before the 2026 elections has set off a clamor to replicate the effort in statehouses controlled by both parties.

Missouri's congressional map earned an average score, or "C," for both, with an average compactness score of 0.456 (just shy of the 0.5 needed to earn a "B") and nine split counties. The state received an overall "A" score from the study, one of just 21 states to do so.