Newly Revised Districts Will Matter for Control of US House

Sept. 6, 2024, 9:32 AM UTC

Control-of-Congress math is new this fall after five states revised House district lines, either because a court said they must or judges said they could.

Redistricting litigation left both parties claiming wins. Democrats are favored to net a seat in New York and capture new Black-majority districts in Alabama and Louisiana, gains that could easily be offset by pro-Republican alterations in North Carolina, neutralizing any new advantage.

“When you add everything up, I think there’s one more Trump seat in the country than there was in 2022,” Adam Kincaid, executive director of the National Republican Redistricting Trust, said in an ...

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