Republicans squeezed four more congressional seats from Texas than their statewide electoral clout would dictate. Without those gerrymandered bonus seats, the...
Democrats could have kept the House with five more midterm wins. Lopsided redistricting accounted for all but one.
“There’s no question that gerrymandering exists and that it benefited Republicans overall across the country,” said Michael Li, a redistricting expert at the Brennan Center for Justice Republicans will control the House by a margin of 222 to 213. Without those four “extra” seats from Texas, the Republican tally would drop to 218, and Democrats would have 217. That’s as tight as it gets.
The split in the Texas House is much closer to the baseline: 86 Republicans out of 150 seats, or 57%. couldn’t get past a Senate Republican filibuster in January
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