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The state currently has seven Democrats and seven Republicans in the US House but thanks to a new Republican majority on the Supreme Court, that may flip in 2024 to 11 Republicans and three Democrats.
Bipartisan gerrymandering, where redistricting favors the incumbents in both the Democratic and Republican parties, became especially relevant in the 2000 redistricting process, which created some of the most non-competitive redistricting plans in American history. [26]: 828 The Supreme Court held in Gaffney v.
The Kentucky Supreme Court could soon decide whether a map drawn by the state’s Republican-controlled legislature amounts to what Democrats assert is an “extreme partisan” gerrymander in ...
Attorney for the Democrats Sarah Sanchez said that while the party did seek to dilute GOP votes, it did not actually achieve unconstitutional gerrymandering, a fact she said was proven by the ...
The redistricting was a notable success for Gerry's Democratic-Republican Party. In the 1812 election, both the Massachusetts House and governorship were comfortably won by Federalists, losing Gerry his job, but the redistricted state senate remained firmly in Democratic-Republican hands. [8]
In Ohio, Utah, and New Mexico, the dominant party — in the first two cases Republicans, and in the latter, Democrats — simply ignored their commission’s work and drew a gerrymander.
Go back a decade or so, and Ohio breaks roughly 54% for Republicans and 46% for Democrats. Yet, under the Huffman maps, Republicans control two-thirds of the state’s 15 U.S. House seats, 79% of ...
The state remains a perennial battleground, closely split between Democrats and Republicans in elections. In the last presidential race, Republican Donald Trump won by just over 1 percentage point ...