Minority voters are required to have an equal opportunity to elect representatives of their choice. Many incumbents could square off in primaries or file to run in a different district to avoid that.īoth the congressional and legislative maps appear likely to be challenged in court in part because of opposition from the Black community in Detroit. The final districts will lead to a shakeup in the delegation. Under three proposed congressional maps, there could be 7-6 splits in favor of either party if it is competitive statewide. … The composite scores of all 10 years of election history show that it's a fair map on accepted measures of partisan fairness." It supports all of the (federal Voting Rights Act) considerations that we've been looking at. I think it's a great map actually," said commissioner Anthony Eid, one of five members who affiliates with neither major party. Democrats could have a 20-18 edge in the Senate under such a scenario.ĭue to 2011 gerrymandering, Republicans secured a 22-16 majority after the 2018 election despite Democrat Gretchen Whitmer winning the governorship by nearly 10 percentage points.
The panel used a composite of the last 13 statewide races to show Democrats won 52% of votes while Republicans got 48%. The commission was created by voters in 2018 to handle the once-a-decade process of drawing congressional and legislative boundaries instead of the partisan Legislature.
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