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UPDATED Jul. 19, 2022, at 3:50 PM

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The partisan breakdown of Massachusetts’s new map
Status:Approved
partisan lean of districts:
Old map
9 districts
majority
This map
9 districts
There are 9 Democratic-leaning seats in this proposed map.Change from old map: None.
The competitiveness and fairness of Massachusetts's maps
Median seat
Difference between the partisan lean of the state’s median district and the state as a whole.
Old mapR+4.4
New mapR+4.9
Efficiency gap
Difference between each party’s share of “wasted votes” — those that don’t contribute to a candidate winning.
Old mapD+15.8
New mapD+15.8
Competitiveness
The number of districts in the state whose partisan leans are between R+5 and D+5.
Old map0/9
New map0/9
The demographic and partisan breakdown of Massachusetts’s new map
White
Black
Hispanic
Asian
Other
DistrictIncumbentPartisan leanRacial makeup
1st
Richard E. NealD
D+22
2nd
James McGovernD
D+30
3rd
Lori TrahanD
D+26
4th
Jake AuchinclossD
D+28
5th
Katherine ClarkD
D+50
6th
Seth MoultonD
D+26
7th
Ayanna PressleyD
D+73
8th
Stephen F. LynchD
D+34
9th
William KeatingD
D+17

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

The latest in Massachusetts

Nov. 23, 2021

After the Massachusetts state House and Senate both voted on Nov. 17 to approve a new map for the state’s nine congressional districts, Gov. Charlie Baker signed the state’s new congressional maps on Nov. 22. Unlike the last redistricting process, which, due to the state losing a congressional seat, was more dramatic, the changes here are fairly minor. If the map is approved, the state will continue to have nine solidly Democratic congressional districts and no Republican ones.

Of note is the fact that the map rejoins the city of Fall River, which had previously been split between two districts, but it does not place it in the same district as New Bedford — a move activists had sought because both have relatively high shares of immigrant and minority populations. Over the weekend, Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin criticized the map for dividing up communities and said Democrats are engaging in gerrymandering “this time out.”

Latest updates
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Nov. 22, 2021
Gov. Charlie Baker signed H.4256 into law, thus providing final approval for the state's new congressional maps, which become effective immediately.
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Nov. 17, 2021
The Massachusetts Legislature approved a congressional redistricting map, sending H.4256 to Governor Charlie Baker's desk.
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Nov. 3, 2021
The Massachusetts Special Joint Committee on Redistricting released proposed congressional redistricting maps.

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Who controls redistricting in Massachusetts 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 Republican governor (but legislative Democrats have the numbers to override a potential veto).