What Redistricting Looks Like In Every State

On April 25, a county judge struck down Kansas’s Republican-passed congressional map, ruling that it dilutes the votes of both Democrats and nonwhite Kansans. The attorney general is appealing the decision to the Kansas Supreme Court, but the high court may not be inclined to overturn the decision: Five of its seven members were appointed by Democratic governors.

The map in question creates three Republican-leaning seats and one highly competitive seat, same as the current configuration. However, it would split up majority-minority Wyandotte County (where Kansas City is located) for the first time since the 1980s, taking the 3rd District from a FiveThirtyEight partisan lean of D+4 to R+3. This will likely endanger the reelection prospects of Rep. Sharice Davids, Kansas’s only Democratic member of Congress.

The map became law in early February despite opposition from Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly. Republicans in the Kansas Legislature overrode her veto by the skin of their teeth: The override got the minimum 27 necessary votes in the state Senate and one over the required 84 votes in the state House.