Ohio officials are likely to approve a bipartisan compromise congressional map for the 2026 election that would make two Democratic districts more Republican-friendly but is not as favorable to the GOP as a new map could have been.
The Ohio Redistricting Commission, which has five Republicans and two Democrats, will vote on the proposed districts Friday, the deadline for the panel to enact a new congressional map in a bipartisan vote before redistricting responsibilities would return to the legislature, where majority Republicans could have passed a more aggressive map on a party-line vote.
The compromise map, which was introduced at ...