Redistricting in America: Gerrymandering Potency Raises the Stakes for the 2020s

Key Points
• While partisan gerrymandering is nothing new in American politics, it has become easier to find examples of states where gerrymanders are consistently effective and harder to find examples of “dummymanders” — gerrymanders that fail.
• Republicans control the drawing of more districts in this round of decennial redistricting than Democrats do.
• Democrats arguably would be better off if no states had bipartisan/independent redistricting commissions. CONTINUED

Kyle Kondik, Sabato’s Crystal Ball

Post-2020 redistricting control/method by state


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