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Aug 19 - (Missouri) A state court declared(opens in new tab) that the 2025 Missouri congressional map can not be subject to referendum, stating the Missouri Constitution's referendum provisions do not apply to reallocating authority over congressional redistricting away from the General Assembly to a referendum process.
Aug 5 - (Maryland) The legislature passes, and the Governor signs(opens in new tab) legislation putting a redistricting constitutional amendment on the November Ballot. On Aug. 6, Republican legislators filed(opens in new tab) suit in County Circuit Court to block the redistricting amendment from the Nov. 3 ballot.
Aug 4 - (Missouri) redistricting referendum blocked(opens in new tab) by the Secretary of State, lawsuit filed.
Enacted Maps
June 2 2026: On direct appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, Alabama was allowed to use its 2023 congressional map for the upcoming midterms. The Court's unsigned opinion(opens in new tab) overturned the lower district court's finding of intentional discrimination.
May 26, 2026: A federal three-judge panel has once again blocked (opens in new tab)Alabama from using its 2023 congressional map, ordering the state to use a race-blind court-drawn plan for its 2026 elections.
May 8 2026: Alabama filed an emergency appeal at the U.S. Supreme Court asking the justices to allow the state to revert to a congressional map with one majority-Black district. The state asked for an answer by May 14.
May 8 2026: The Alabama legislature passed legislation in special session, conditionally rescheduling congressional and state senate primaries to be held under the invalidated 2023 maps.
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.
Aug 26 2025: Alabama filed a petition for certiorari asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review and reverse the District Court’s ruling.
May 8 2025: Following a trial on the merits, the district court (three-judge panel) issues a permanent injunction against Alabama’s 2023-enacted congressional plan. The court rules that the plan violates Section 2 of the VRA (and finds it was drawn with intentional racial discrimination), so the court-ordered map will remain in effect.
Go to the Alabama Almanac Page for more.
- June 10, 2026: The Florida Supreme Court declined in a 6-1 ruling to intervene in ongoing litigation (3 active lawsuits) against the congressional map, finding it lacked jurisdiction while the lower court's consideration of the appeal was still ongoing. The underlying Fair Districts litigation continues, but the 2026 map will govern Florida's 2026 congressional elections.
- April 29, 2026: The Florida legislature passed a new congressional map, which could shift the state’s delegation from a 20–8 Republican advantage to a potential 24–4 split.
- January 7, 2026: Governor Ron DeSantis announced a Special Session to begin Monday, April 20, through the 24th to address "malapportioned" Florida House districts.
- December 4, 2025: The Florida House of Representatives' Select Committee on Congressional Redistricting meets for the first time to consider mid-decade redistricting. Watch.
- August 7, 2025: Florida House Speaker Daniel Perez established a new Select Committee on Congressional Redistricting.
Go to the Florida Almanac Page for more.
May 29: Louisiana legislators gave their final approval to Senate Bill 121, a congressional redistricting map that eliminates one of the state's two majority-Black districts and gives Republicans a probable additional U.S. House seat ahead of the November midterms.
May 14: The Louisiana Senate voted 27-10, on a straight party-line vote, to pass Senate Bill 121, which would reduce the state's number of majority-Black U.S. House districts from two to one. The bill will head to the state House, where Republicans hold more than a two-thirds majority. Both chambers must approve a new map by June 1.
May 13: A Louisiana Senate committee passes a new congressional map after a marathon hearing.
May 8: The Senate and Governmental Affairs Committee (Louisiana legislature) met to hear public comments on new congressional district maps. Voting on the maps is scheduled next week.
May 4: The U.S. Supreme Court granted a request from plaintiffs in the case to immediately issue an expedited certified opinion, which typically happens about a month after a decision, clearing the way for Louisiana to adopt new maps.
May 1: Four additional lawsuits were filed (one in federal court and the other in state court) challenging the suspension of the primaries.
Apr 30: Secretary of State Nancy Landry announced that while U.S. House primaries will be "suspended.”
April 29: 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, which contained a second majority-Black district.
Apr. 30: A 3-judge panel for the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana said the state would be given an opportunity to redraw its map and ordered officials to explain what they would do within three days of the Supreme Court finalizing its decision.
Apr 30: Two lawsuits were filed in federal court contesting the suspended primaries and use of any replacement map.
Go to the Louisiana Almanac Page for more.
- Aug 19 2026: A state court declared(opens in new tab) that the 2025 Missouri congressional map can not be subject to referendum, stating the Missouri Constitution's referendum provisions do not apply to reallocating authority over congressional redistricting away from the General Assembly to a referendum process.
- Aug 4 2026: Secretary of State Hoskins declared(opens in new tab) the referendum insufficient on the last day he had to rule on whether petition measures would appear on the Nov. 3 ballot. He argued the Missouri Constitution's referendum power does not extend to redistricting plans. People Not Politicians filed suit two hours after the announcement.
- May 27 2026: The Missouri Supreme Court ruled (opens in new tab)unanimously that Gov. Mike Kehoe acted within his constitutional authority when he convened the special legislative session that produced the state’s new congressional map, rejecting a legal challenge brought by the Missouri NAACP.
- May 13 2026: The Missouri State Supreme Court upholds the state's "Missouri First" congressional map just 1 day after oral argument.
- March 24, 2026: The Utah Supreme Court upheld the legislature's power to enact a redistricting map mid-decade.
- Dec. 9 2025: People Not Politicians submitted over 300,000 signatures to the Missouri Secretary of State's office. Signature verification is expected to be completed in the late summer.
- September 28, 2025: Governor Kehoe signed HB1 into law.
- September 12, 2025: The legislature adopted HB1.
- August 29, 2025: A special session was convened.
Go to the Missouri Almanac Page for more.
- October 22, 2025: The bill was enacted after both houses adopted it. (Senate Passed 26-20, House passed 66-48). State law does not require the governor to sign congressional redistricting map bills for enactment. Litigation is pending.
- October 20, 2025: An amended version of the map was reported out of committee.
- March 2025: S.B. 249 was initially introduced and remained in committee for several months.
Go to the North Carolina Almanac Page for more.
Ohio Passes a New Congressional Map
While Ohio did not undertake mid-decade redistricting in response to President Trump's call to Republican controlled states to redraw maps, the state was obligated to redraw its congressional map under State law. A mid-decade redraw was required because the 2021 map lacked bipartisan support under Ohio’s 2015–18 constitutional reforms, which require any map passed without bipartisan supermajorities in the legislature or at least two Republican and two Democratic votes on the Ohio Redistricting Commission to be valid for only four years. The commission’s unanimous vote also blocks a citizen-referendum challenge that could have delayed implementation. Lawmakers had until Sept. 30, 2025, to produce a replacement map, but failed, ceding responsibility to the Ohio Redistricting Commission. The map adopted by the commission on October 31, 2025, will likely increase the number of Republican congressional districts by 2.
May 7: NAACP files emergency petition to block Tennessee’s newly approved redistricting plan.
May 7: Tennessee lawmakers approve a new Republican-favored congressional map.
Go to the Tennessee Almanac Page for more.
- Dec 4, 2025: The U.S. Supreme Court granted a stay, keeping the new map in place for the 2026 mid-term elections.
- Nov.18, 2025: A federal court panel blocked the redrawn congressional map because it was likely a racial gerrymander. An appeal is expected.
- Aug. 22, 2025: the legislature adopted HB 4 in a second special session, and Governor Abbott signed the map into law on Aug 29.
Go to the Texas 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.
Considered / Considering
June 17 2026: Republican lawmakers in Georgia announced they will not redraw congressional or state legislative districts during the special session called by Gov. Brian Kemp. House Speaker Jon Burns cited the need for public input and clarity on the recent Callais decision before deciding on a map redraw.
May 13 2026: Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has called the General Assembly into a special session beginning June 17 to consider new congressional, state Senate, and state House district maps.
Go to the Georgia Almanac Page for more.
- December 11, 2025: The Indiana Senate failed to adopt the mid-decade redistricting map passed by the House. The final vote was 19 to 31.
- December 5, 2025: The Indiana House passed a map poised to elect an all Republican delegation to the U.S. House. The map passed by a 57-41 vote and now heads to the GOP-controlled state Senate, which is reconvening on Dec. 8
- December 1, 2025: As expected, House Republicans released a proposed congressional map, along with statutory changes, to facilitate the map's enactment and limit post-enactment litigation.
- November 25, 2025: Indiana legislative leaders announced an early start to the 2026 legislative session. The Speaker advised the House would convene early on Dec. 1st, and Senate leaders confirmed a Dec. 8 start. Both leaders confirmed that the early start would enable work on pressing legislative business, including redistricting.
- November 14, 2025: Despite the call for a session, the effort appears stalled. Senate President Pro Tempore Rodric Bray publicly stated that they “don’t have the votes” to pursue the mid-cycle redraw of congressional districts.
- October 27, 2025: Governor Mike Braun signed a proclamation calling for a special session to take up congressional redistricting beginning on Monday, November 3rd at noon.
- October 22, 2025: Senate President Pro Tempore Rodric Bray revealed that his caucus doesn't have the votes to redistrict.
- October 21, 2025: Indiana advocacy groups have delivered more than 20,000 signatures to the Indiana Statehouse opposing efforts to redraw congressional maps mid-decade.
- In the late summer of 2025, President Donald Trump urged Indiana lawmakers to consider redrawing the state's congressional map.
Go to the Indiana Almanac Page for more.
October 14 2025: Upon request of the Attorney General, the Kansas Legislative Coordinating Council approved $460,000 to fund a special legislative session. No special session has been scheduled to date. The next regular session of the Kansas legislature is scheduled to begin January 12th.
September 27 2025: Party leaders distributed petitions to lawmakers to call a special session
September 23 2025: Governor Laura Kelly said she wouldn’t call a special session for redistricting. Legislative leaders have the option of gathering petition signatures from two-thirds of Senate and House members to compel a special session of the Legislature.
Go to the Kansas Almanac Page for more.
May 26: After the House passed the map on May 20, 74-37, the Senate declined to invoke cloture and force a vote on the map after 12 Republicans pulled support for the map. A subsequent vote to kill the bill for the session succeeded on a 28-18 vote.
May 14: South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster called a special session set to begin on Friday morning May 15.
May 12: South Carolina Senate rejects mid-decade map redraw.
May 8: The South Carolina House approved a sine die (end of session) amendment allowing lawmakers to return after adjournment to take up congressional redistricting. The Senate is expected to vote on the measure early next week.
April 29: 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.
Go to the South Carolina Almanac Page for more.
- 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.
Go to the Maine Almanac Page for more.
- Aug 4/5 2026: Governor Moore signed HB 2100(opens in new tab), which sets(opens in new tab) the ballot question for the November 2026 general election and, if ratified, clarifies that redistricting standards for legislative districts do not apply to congressional districts. This opens the door to pass a new congressional map before the 2028 election.
- July 7 2026: The General Assembly will convene(opens in new tab) a special session beginning Aug 3rd, to consider a constitutional amendment that would pave the way for a new congressional map in 2028. The amendment must be approved by voters in November.
- April 13 2026: The General Assembly adjourned Sine Die without passing any mid-decade congressional map.
- January 23 2026: The Commission Map (HB488(opens in new tab)) 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(opens in new tab) 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(opens in new tab).
- November 4, 2025: Maryland Gov. Wes Moore announced(opens in new tab) 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(opens in new tab) 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(opens in new tab) 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(opens in new tab) for more.
June 29 2026: The Colorado Supreme Court struck down all five proposed ballot initiatives aimed at redrawing the state's congressional districts for the 2028 and 2030 elections. In a unanimous opinion, the court ruled the measures violated the state constitution's single-subject requirement by combining changes to the redistricting process with approval of specific congressional maps.
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.
Go to the Colorado 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.
- 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.
- June 3 2026: The New York State Assembly voted Wednesday to approve a constitutional amendment that, if passed again by the body in the next legislative session, signed off by Gov. Kathy Hochul, and approved by voters, would, among other things, permit mid-decade congressional redistricting, eliminate the ban on partisan gerrymandering, and eliminate the supermajority threshold needed for the legislature to adopt maps
- 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.
May 15: The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an emergency request by Democratic officials in Virginia to use a newly approved congressional district map in the midterms that would give their party an edge.
May 8: Virginia Democrats have filed an emergency motion asking the state Supreme Court to stay its own ruling, signaling plans to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
May 8: The VA Supreme Court ruled 4-3 to invalidate the state's referendum results, blocking a voter-approved, Democratic congressional map.
- April 28, 2026: The Virginia Supreme Court denied a request to pause the lower trial court's April 22nd order in Koski so that the results of the April referendum could be certified.
- April 27, 2026: The Virginia Supreme Court heard oral argument in the McDougle challenge. The deadline to file for congressional races in Virginia is May 26, but the blocked certification means district boundaries remain undecided.
- April 22, 2026: The Koski trial court held that the legislature’s passage of the proposed constitutional amendment and referendum was unconstitutional.
- April 21, 2026: VA voters approved the map by referendum by 51.7% to 48.3%.
- March 11, 2026: The Republican Party of Virginia and Virginia voters filed a lawsuit (RNC v. VA State Board of Elections) challenging the proposed 2026 map on state constitutional grounds, including the district compactness requirement. On April 26, the court denied the RNC’s motion for a preliminary injunction, and the RNC appealed to the State Supreme Court on May 1.
- Feb. 19, 2026: In the Koski case, Chief Judge Jack Hurley of the Tazewell County Circuit Court issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) blocking state and local election officials from moving forward with an April 21 statewide referendum.
- Feb 18 2026: A second lawsuit was filed (RNC v. Koski) alleging a list of procedural violations, including that the amendment was not approved by two different assemblies, voting began less than 90 days after final passage, the ballot question was misleading, and the enabling legislation violated the state constitution’s single-subject rule.
- Feb 13 2026: The Virginia Supreme Court allowed the map referendum to move forward while the case proceeds on appeal.
- Feb 5 2026: Virginia Democrats unveiled a new congressional map designed to elect 10 Democrats and 1 Republican to Congress. The current congressional delegation is 6 Democrats and 5 Republicans. View the map here.
- Feb 4 2026: The Virginia State Supreme Court will likely consider the Virginia congressional map litigation after a state appellate court decided the case was of great importance and needed a "prompt decision."
- Jan 28 2026: Virginia Democrats appealed the judge’s ruling in McDougle that blocks a redistricting amendment from going before voters this spring.
- Jan 27 2026: A County Circuit Judge in Virginia ruled in McDougle v. Nardo that Democrats in the legislature violated rules when they passed a constitutional amendment on redistricting. This ruling effectively blocks the Democratic-favored congressional map passed by the legislature last year.
- October 28 2025: A group of state lawmakers filed a lawsuit in state court challenging the legislature’s special session for a redistricting map and referendum. They claimed that only the governor, not the speaker of the house, may convene or expand the scope of a special session. The case is McDougle v. Nardo.
- 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.
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.
Go to the Washington State Almanac Page for more.
