Indiana Republicans Unveil Map Targeting Democrats Mrvan, Carson

Indiana Republicans released a draft congressional remap designed to favor their party in all nine districts and oust the state’s two House Democrats.

The new lines targeting Reps. Frank Mrvan and Andre Carson were unveiled Monday by Republicans who control the state House. They are expected to pass the map by the end of this week.

It’s unclear if it can get through the GOP-led Senate, where some Republicans are opposed to joining a mid-decade redistricting war sparked by the Trump White House in Texas this summer. The Senate will meet Dec. 8 to vote on any House-passed proposal.

President Donald Trump has threatened resistant Republicans in the Indiana Senate with primary challenges if they don’t accede to his demand to draw more Republican districts to help rescue the party’s shaky House majority in the 2026 midterm elections.

Republican opponents to a remap include state Sen. Michael Bohacek, who cited Trump’s use of a disability-related slur and noted he has a daughter with Down syndrome. State Sen. Jean Leising (R), who also opposes mid-decade redistricting, said over the weekend her home was the target of a pipe bomb threat.

Indiana House Republicans released a draft congressional map that would imperil the state’s two Democrats in Congress.

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The draft map would transform Mrvan’s northwestern 1st District, now a compact district centered in Lake County (Gary, Hammond), into a Republican-leaning constituency winding more than 100 miles southeast to Wabash County in deep-red north-central Indiana.

Trump would have carried the proposed 1st District by 12 percentage points compared to his loss by less than 1 point under the current lines, according to the Dave’s Redistricting App, a political mapmaking website. Mrvan was reelected by more than 8 points in 2024.

Trump would have carried Indiana’s eight other districts by between 18 and 22 points. Some Republicans, including Rep. Rudy Yakym from a district neighboring Mrvan’s, would be given less overwhelmingly conservative districts to help the GOP oust Mrvan and Carson.

Carson’s 7th District, now a Democratic bastion within Marion County (Indianapolis), would be dismantled and split into four parts. The proposed 7th District would run from northern Marion County east to the Ohio border. Other parts of Carson’s current district would be absorbed by districts held by GOP Reps. Jim Baird, Jefferson Shreve, and Erin Houchin.