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What Redistricting Looks Like In Every State

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The partisan breakdown of Illinois’s new map
Status:Approved
partisan lean of districts:
Old map
18 districts
majority
This map
17 districts-1
There are 13 Democratic-leaning seats, 3 Republican-leaning seats and 1 highly competitive seat in this proposed map.Change from old map: +2 Democratic-leaning seats, -2 Republican-leaning seats, -1 highly competitive seat.

Map source: Illinois Democrats

The competitiveness and fairness of Illinois's maps
Median seat
Difference between the partisan lean of the state’s median district and the state as a whole.
Old mapD+0.3
New mapR+1.6
Efficiency gap
Difference between each party’s share of “wasted votes” — those that don’t contribute to a candidate winning.
New mapD+13.2
Old mapR+0.9
Competitiveness
The number of districts in the state whose partisan leans are between R+5 and D+5.
Old map2/18
New map1/17
The demographic and partisan breakdown of Illinois’s new map
White
Black
Hispanic
Asian
Other
DistrictIncumbentPartisan leanRacial makeup
1st
Bobby L. RushD
D+41
2nd
Robin KellyD
D+37
3rd
OPEN
D+39
4th
Jesús "Chuy" GarcíaD
D+44
5th
Mike QuigleyD
D+36
6th
Marie NewmanD
Sean CastenD
D+6
7th
Danny K. DavisD
D+70
8th
Raja KrishnamoorthiD
D+12
9th
Jan SchakowskyD
D+38
10th
Bradley SchneiderD
D+21
11th
Bill FosterD
D+10
12th
Mike BostR
R+46
13th
OPEN
D+7
14th
Lauren UnderwoodD
D+7
15th
Rodney DavisR
Mary E. MillerR
R+42
16th
Adam KinzingerR
Darin LaHoodR
R+26
17th
Cheri BustosD
D+4

The racial makeup of each district is of the voting-age population.

The latest in Illinois

Nov. 23, 2021

On Nov. 23, Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed the state’s new congressional map into law. Currently, Democrats control 13 of the state’s 18 House seats, but this map aims to give them 14 of 17 seats — as Illinois lost one seat in reapportionment — thus adding one Democratic seat and subtracting two Republican seats. Importantly, the new map also creates a new majority-Latino district, the 3rd, a change that some politicians and activists had been pushing for.

This final version of Illinois’s congressional map further entrenches Democratic gains in the state, but not everyone is happy with the results. Freshman Rep. Marie Newman, who unseated conservative Democrat Dan Lipinski in 2020, saw the lines redrawn so that her hometown is now in the 4th District, the heavily Latino district represented by Rep. Chuy García. On Oct. 29, Newman announced that she’ll run for reelection in the new 6th District, where she currently represents 41 percent of residents; her opponent will likely be Rep. Sean Casten, who currently represents the 6th District. That decision makes sense given that she would have likely faced long odds in a primary against García.

The map also puts pressure on several incumbent Republican representatives. The hometowns of incumbent Republican Reps. Adam Kinzinger and Darin LaHood are squeezed together in the 16th District, which may have been a factor in Kinzinger’s Oct. 29 decision not to seek reelection. Incumbent Republican Reps. Mary Miller and Mike Bost also ended up in the same district.

Meanwhile, GOP Rep. Rodney Davis may have challenges of his own ahead. His 13th District would go from an R+8 seat to a D+7 seat. Like Kinzinger, Davis has also been a rumored gubernatorial candidate due to the expectation that Democrats would turn his district blue, although he would also have the option of running in the neighboring, dark-red 15th District, only 28 percent of which he currently represents but where his hometown is located.

Latest updates
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Nov. 23, 2021
Illinois Gov. Pritzker signs new congressional districts into law.
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Oct. 29, 2021
The Illinois General Assembly approved a final congressional redistricting plan. The plan now goes to the governor for final approval.
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Oct. 23, 2021
Illinois Democratic lawmakers introduced a new congressional map proposal after releasing an initial proposal earlier this month.

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Who controls redistricting in Illinois right now?
Democrats fully control the congressional redistricting process. New maps are drawn and passed by the Democratic state legislature and signed into law by the Democratic governor.