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The partisan breakdown of this proposed map in Minnesota
Status:Proposed
partisan lean of districts:
Old map
8 districts
majority
This map
8 districts
There are 4 Democratic-leaning seats and 4 Republican-leaning seats in this proposed map.Change from old map: +1 Democratic-leaning seat, -1 highly competitive seat.

Map source: Sachs plaintiffs

The competitiveness and fairness of Minnesota's maps
Median seat
Difference between the partisan lean of the state’s median district and the state as a whole.
Sachs plaintiffs' planR+2.8
Corrie plaintiffs' planR+3.5
Democratic proposalR+5.2
Second Democratic proposalR+5.2
Wattson plaintiffs' planR+7.7
New mapR+8.5
Anderson plaintiffs' planR+8.7
Old mapR+8.9
Republican proposalR+15.8
Efficiency gap
Difference between each party’s share of “wasted votes” — those that don’t contribute to a candidate winning.
Old mapR+5.3
Sachs plaintiffs' planR+6.7
Wattson plaintiffs' planR+6.8
Anderson plaintiffs' planR+6.8
New mapR+6.8
Democratic proposalR+6.9
Second Democratic proposalR+6.9
Corrie plaintiffs' planR+6.9
Republican proposalR+20.0
Competitiveness
The number of districts in the state whose partisan leans are between R+5 and D+5.
Old map1/8
Anderson plaintiffs' plan1/8
New map1/8
Wattson plaintiffs' plan1/8
Corrie plaintiffs' plan0/8
Democratic proposal0/8
Second Democratic proposal0/8
Republican proposal0/8
Sachs plaintiffs' plan0/8
The demographic and partisan breakdown of this proposed map in Minnesota
White
Black
Hispanic
Asian
Other
DistrictIncumbentPartisan leanRacial makeup
1st
Jim HagedornR
R+14
2nd
Angie CraigD
D+12
3rd
Dean PhillipsD
D+18
4th
Betty McCollumD
D+29
5th
Ilhan OmarD
D+48
6th
Tom EmmerR
R+28
7th
Michelle FischbachR
R+35
8th
Pete StauberR
R+17

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

The latest in Minnesota

Feb. 15, 2022

On Feb. 15, a panel appointed by the Minnesota Supreme Court unveiled the state’s new congressional map for the next 10 years. The new map is nearly identical in competitiveness to the old map, with four Republican-leaning seats, three Democratic-leaning seats and one highly competitive seat.

Because neither party had full control over Minnesota’s redistricting process — Democrats control the state House and governorship, Republicans the state Senate — the state did not pass a map through the usual legislative process, prompting the judiciary to step in. This continued a long-running pattern of court-drawn maps in Minnesota, as a federal or state court has decided the congressional lines in each post-decennial census redistricting cycle after 1980, with state court-appointed panels doing the work after the 1990, 2000 and 2010 censuses.

Latest updates
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Feb. 15
The Wattson redistricting panel released its final congressional and state legislative redistricting plans.
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Feb. 11
The Minnesota Legislature does not expect to pass state legislative and congressional redistricting maps by its Feb. 15th deadline, paving the way for the Wattson redistricting panel to do so instead.
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Jan. 7
The Minnesota GOP released its proposed redistricting plans.

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Who controls redistricting in Minnesota right now?
Neither party fully controls the congressional redistricting process. New maps are drawn and passed by the split-party state legislature and signed into law by the Democratic governor.