Democrats will maintain control of at least 11 of the 15 districts targeted by GOP redistricting efforts and have flipped at least five of their redistricting targets away from Republicans.
So far, they’ve held on to four targeted seats in Texas, three in Florida, two in Ohio, and one each in Alabama and North Carolina. Meanwhile, Democrats have so far picked up four seats in California and one in Utah.
When Republicans, led by President Donald Trump, launched a historic mid-decade redistricting war last year, their goal was to protect their razor-thin majority in the House. Now, Democrats have taken back the House and the strategy seems to have backfired.
Follow along as results continue coming in — these graphics will update as CNN projects these races.
In their effort to win more seats, a party could’ve drawn a map that didn’t reinforce or even weakened districts elsewhere in a state.
Winning the seats targeted by a new map only means so much if the party doesn’t end the night with more seats in a state than they started with.
How the plan to end gerrymandering backfired
Across these nine states, the new maps drawn by partisan actors show the signs of gerrymandering — groups of voters packed together into just a few districts or distributed across several.
The goal is to ensure your opponents win as few seats as possible, while giving your party the chance to maximize your potential gains.
Data sources: Associated Press and US Census Bureau.
