What Redistricting Looks Like In Every State
An updating tracker of proposed congressional maps — and whether they might benefit Democrats or Republicans in the 2022 midterms and beyond. How this works »
| Old map | R+8.0 |
| New map | R+8.6 |
| Old map | R+6.3 |
| New map | R+6.7 |
| Old map | 0/6 |
| New map | 0/6 |
| District | Partisan lean | Racial makeup |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | R+43 | |
| 2nd | R+38 | |
| 3rd | D+20 | |
| 4th | R+34 | |
| 5th | R+60 | |
| 6th | R+13 |
The racial makeup of each district is of the voting-age population.
The latest in Kentucky
On Jan. 20, the Republican-controlled state legislature voted to override Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto of the legislature’s congressional map proposal, which puts the new map in place for the 2022 election. The new lines largely preserve the status quo of five solidly Republican or GOP-leaning seats and one solidly Democratic seat based in Louisville.
Just after the legislature overrode Beshear’s veto, the Kentucky Democratic Party launched a lawsuit over the map. The suit argues the map is an extreme partisan gerrymander that violates the state constitution, with a particular focus on the sprawling and heavily Republican 1st District, which winds its way from southwestern Kentucky up into the central part of the state to take in relatively competitive Franklin County, home to the state capital of Frankfort.
This change removes Franklin County from Republican Rep. Andy Barr’s 6th District, which makes the Lexington-based seat slightly more Republican-leaning than it is on the current map, going from R+11 to R+13. Barr didn’t have a close race in 2020, but he only narrowly won reelection in 2018 under the current lines, so GOP mapmakers hope these changes will keep the seat out of Democrats’ reach moving forward.
The map’s other notable feature is that it does not attempt to add a sixth Republican-controlled seat by splitting up strongly Democratic Louisville. The idea of “cracking” Louisville had percolated in GOP circles, although some Kentucky Republicans — including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell — opposed the notion.
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