2025 Texas redistricting

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Between June and August 2025, lawmakers in the U.S. state of Texas considered a process of mid-decade redistricting to give members of the Republican Party in the state an advantage by gerrymandering the state's congressional districts ahead of the 2026 United States House of Representatives elections. In the 2024 elections, Republicans won 25 of the state's House seats and Democrats won the remaining 13, but with the redrawn map, it could potentially give Republicans up to 30 seats. On August 20, 2025, the Texas State House passed congressional maps that would target five Democratic-held seats, all of them being coalition districts containing a high proportion of minority populations. The vote was 88–52, a party-line vote. The new map aimed to flip the state's 9th, 28th, 32nd, 34th, and 35th districts to Republican control. On August 23, 2025, the Texas State Senate passed the map by a vote of 18–8. It then headed to Governor Greg Abbott, who officially signed the new congressional map...

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