Congressional Voting District

As redistricting heats up across the Gulf South, local Mississippi leaders discuss fears of what it could do to communities.

Groups across the Gulf South are organizing, holding rallies and pushing back against efforts to eliminate Black congressional districts.

Republicans prevailed in a 4-3 party-line vote to approve Senate Bill 121, which keeps a single majority-Black district that stretches from Baton Rouge to New Orleans.

Voting districts typically are redrawn based on census data after the start of each decade. But an unusual spate of mid-decade redistricting broke out after President Donald Trump urged Texas Republicans to reshape U.S. House districts last year. More states have followed.

A Louisiana legislative committee that oversees redistricting will meet Friday to hear public comments on a new congressional district map after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last week to overturn the existing version.

The United States Supreme Court’s ruling Wednesday morning (April 29) that Louisiana's 2024 election map was unconstitutional leaves the door open for Louisiana to redraw its congressional map and eliminate one of its majority Black districts.

A New York University study says that fairer maps increase voter turnout.

Attorneys representing Louisiana in a lawsuit against the state legislative redistricting plans passed in 2022 are arguing that a key piece of the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional and should not be applied to the state.

Louisiana’s lone Democratic incumbent in the U.S. House of Representatives will keep his seat after securing an outright win against four challengers on Election Day.

Results of Louisiana's District 6 race between Quinten Anderson, Cleo Fields and Elbert Guillory.