• January 16, 2026: The VA General Assembly passes its proposed constitutional amendment for a second time. This allows lawmakers to redraw Virginia’s House map and temporarily bypass the state’s redistricting commission. The amendment will now go before voters in a special election, potentially in April.
• November 3, 2025: The Virginia General Assembly passed a proposed constitutional amendment (House Joint Resolution 6007) allowing mid-decade redistricting in narrow circumstances. To take effect, it must be approved again in the next regular legislative session beginning in January 2026 and by voters in a referendum. This timeline makes redrawing before the 2026 congressional primaries uncertain.
• Democratic leaders have called a special session to redraw U.S. House districts for 2026, beginning on Monday, October 27.

Go to the Virginia Almanac Page for more.

• February 4, 2026: The U.S. Supreme Court has denied California the Republicans' request for an injunction blocking the Prop 50 congressional map, allowing the districts to be used in the 2026 election.
• January 20 2026: Plaintiffs in this case filed an emergency application to the U.S. Supreme Court requesting an injunction against the map pending appeal.
• January 14 2026: A federal three-judge panel for the U.S. Central District Court of California denied a request to issue a preliminary injunction, allowing California to proceed in using its newly redrawn congressional maps in the state for the 2026 midterm elections.
• November 4 2025: 64% of voters approved Proposition 50 on election day. With the measure passed, new congressional maps drawn under its authority are set to be implemented for the 2026 election cycle. Immediately following the approval, opposition groups (including the CA Republican Party) filed lawsuits challenging the maps on the grounds that the redistricting undermines independent map-drawing and improperly uses race to favor Latinos
• August 21 2025: The California Legislature passed a statewide ballot measure (Proposition 50) that proposes an amendment to the state constitution that would temporarily replace the commission-drawn 2021 map with a legislature-drawn map for 2026–2030. The ballot measure will be placed on the Nov. 4th ballot. The existing commission-led process for drawing maps would resume in 2031. More info from the CA Legislative Analyst's Office.

Go to the California Almanac Page for more.

• January 23 2026: The Commission Map (HB488) was introduced in the General Assembly. If passed, the map would go to a referendum for approval by voters.
• January 20, 2026: The Governor's Redistricting Advisory Commission (GRAC) voted to propose a new congressional map with all 8 districts designed to elect Democrats.
• November 14, 2025: The Governor's Redistricting Advisory Commission (GRAC) held its first public hearing on congressional redistricting. Watch the video here.
• November 4, 2025: Maryland Gov. Wes Moore announced he is forming a bipartisan Redistricting Advisory Commission (4 Democrats and 1 Republican) to take public input around the state.
• August 27, 2025: Maryland Democratic senator Clarence Lam filed a bill request that would redraw the state’s congressional districts in response to a similar effort by Texas Republican legislators who redistricted in time for the 2026 midterm elections. The map would likely remove the State's lone Republican House member.
• July 24, 2025: Maryland House of Delegates Majority Leader, Del. David Moon, drafts legislation that would mandate that if any other state deviates from the norm of redrawing congressional districts only once every 10 years, Maryland would be required to do the same.

Go to the Maryland Almanac Page for more.

• March 19, 2026: The Williams case was voluntarily dismissed by the plaintiffs.
• March 2, 2026: The U.S. Supreme Court stayed  a New York State court ruling that required the 11th congressional district to be redrawn. The stay is in effect until there is a disposition of the appeal in the New York state courts or on the petition for certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court.
• January 21 2026: A New York state supreme court judge rules New York’s 11th Congressional District unconstitutionally diluted Black and Latino voting power. The district must be redrawn by February 6.
• October 27, 2025: A lawsuit (Williams et al v. Board of Elections of the State of New York et al) was filed that targets the existing congressional district 11, alleging violations of the New York State Constitution. Specifically, the lawsuit claims the district dilutes minority votes and seeks a new minority influence district consisting of Staten Island and lower Manhattan. This lawsuit is likely an attempt to modify New York's congressional map in the courts in light of the legal and procedural hurdles involved in conducting a mid-decade map redraw.
• August 21, 2025: Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie confirms leaders are “having discussions” after Gov. Kathy Hochul floated a Texas-style mid-decade redraw in response to Texas, yet notes any mid-decade map would require a constitutional amendment passed by two successive legislatures and a statewide referendum, making 2028 the earliest realistic implementation.

Go to the New York Almanac Page for more.

• April 30, 2026: Gov. Sherrill appeared on CNN the night after the Callais ruling and said: "If Trump is going to try to attack fair voting across the country, then New Jersey is going to stand up so that we can create, you know, a counterbalance to whatever he's doing." noting that there are some "some constitutional limitations on doing it immediately."
• January 20, 2026: Miki Sherrill is sworn in as the 57th governor of New Jersey, becoming the second female governor in New Jersey history, the first Democratic female governor in the state's history, and the first female military veteran to serve as governor of any U.S. state.
• July 22, 2025: New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy said he is not ruling out the possibility of redrawing the state's Congressional districts to counter Texas Republicans' redraw efforts. However, the New Jersey Constitution explicitly forbids mid-decade redistricting, unless the state's districts are struck down by a court. Any changes to this law could not be made in enough time to affect elections by next November.

Go to the New Jersey Almanac Page for more.

Apr 29 2026: Senate President Don Harmon announced the Senate will not move forward with the constitutional amendment after the Callais ruling, saying: "We want to spend a little bit of time unpacking the Supreme Court decision to make sure we get it right and protect the voting rights of Illinois residents.

April 29 2026: The Supreme Court issued its 6-3 ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, effectively barring states from using race as a primary factor in drawing congressional maps and striking down Louisiana's map containing a second majority-Black district.

Apr 22, 2026: The Illinois House passed a constitutional amendment to rewrite the state's redistricting rules. The House voted 74-38 to pass the amendment, which creates a priority list of rules state lawmakers would have to consider when drawing legislative maps that is aimed at ensuring minority representation in the legislature.

October 23, 2025: Illinois leaders show “little interest” in a mid-decade redraw despite pressure from U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

August 4, 2025: Gov. J.B. Pritzker says a redraw is “on the table” as Democrats weigh responses to GOP mid-cycle moves in other states.

Go to the Illinois Almanac Page for more.

February 17 2026: Coloradans for a Level Playing Field filed four versions of a potential ballot initiative for voters this November. The initiatives would authorize new congressional maps for the 2028 and 2030 elections and would revert redistricting to the state's independent redistricting commission after the 2030 census.

• August 5, 2025: A spokesperson for Gov. Mills tells the Portland Press Herald she "is not considering any actions related to redistricting."
• August 7, 2025: Maine Senate President Daughtry tells Maine Public that Maine's bipartisan redistricting process "can't have that type of manipulation," effectively ruling out a unilateral Democratic redraw.

May 7 2026: Washington State Democratic Party Chair Shasti Conrad said mid-decade redistricting depended on a Democratic supermajority in the legislature, something she thinks is not likely in 2026, but maybe in 2028.

January 6, 2026:Reps. Joe Fitzgibbon (D) and Sharlett Mena (D) introduced House Joint Resolution 4209 (HJR 4209) into the Washington House of Representatives. The resolution would amend Article II, Section 43 of the Washington State Constitution to allow the state to adopt a congressional redistricting map drawn by the legislature instead of an independent commission, but only if another state redraws its district map for purposes other than remedying an unlawful map ordered by a court.