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Significance
The Republican majority in the House will fall to just one next week when another resignation takes effect. Both parties have been using state legislatures to redraw constituency boundaries in ways that increase their chances of holding and taking House seats in November, and that process is now essentially complete.
Impacts
As many as 70 congressional districts out of 435 will have had their boundaries redrawn for this year’s elections.
A rise in state-level legislative fights over redistricting may crowd out space for other election reforms, notably rank choice voting.
Two states with bitter redistricting battles in this election cycle, North Carolina and Wisconsin, are presidential battleground states.
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