What Redistricting Looks Like In Every State

On May 18, the Kansas Supreme Court upheld Kansas’s new Republican-passed congressional map, saying it did not violate the state constitution. The decision overturned a lower court’s finding that the map dilutes the votes of both Democrats and nonwhite Kansans. The decision clears the way for the map to be used in the 2022 election.

The new map 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.