What Redistricting Looks Like In Every State

On May 31, the New Hampshire Supreme Court adopted a new congressional redistricting map released by the court-appointed special master the previous week. The new map makes minimal changes to the current map and gives the state two highly competitive districts. The court got involved after a monthslong stalemate between the legislature and Gov. Chris Sununu failed to produce a map through the legislative process.

Sununu had pledged to veto two previous maps passed by Republican legislators that each created one Democratic-leaning seat and one Republican-leaning seat. The first map made some of the biggest changes to New Hampshire’s congressional map since the late 1800s, removing several Democratic-leaning communities from the 1st District. The second map would have put both incumbents in the same district. Sununu said New Hampshire citizens were counting on them to deliver a map with competitive districts to keep incumbents accountable and that neither of the maps proposed by the legislature would suit that purpose. He released his own map on March 22, though the legislature never acted on it.

After a group of New Hampshire voters sued, the New Hampshire Supreme Court decided to appoint a special master to draw a new map using a “least-change” approach based on the 2020 census if Sununu and the legislature could not come to an agreement. The new maps had to be ready before the state’s candidate filing period in June.