A redistricting ruling means the party is unlikely to pick up new seats in the next election while new analysis shows the party may find it more difficult to keep hold of two seats it won in the last election .

Texas Republicans could now lose seats in the November 2026 midterms, not gain them.

Because of a ruling on redistricting in the state, the party is unlikely to pick up new seats from redrawn electoral maps.

Meanwhile, according to unrelated analysis by political scientist Larry Sabato, the party may find it more difficult to keep hold of two seats it won in the November 2024 election as they are shifting toward the Democratic Party.

  • taiyang@lemmy.world
    8·
    19 hours ago

    I’m a little curious how this impacts CAs efforts, as I believe those were meant to be contingent on TX but with appeals existing and the timeframe, I’m not sure when or if they’ll undo what they were going to do in CA. And CAs is pretty obviously not race driven, even if it’s blatantly partisan (yet that’s legal because fuck us).

    Would be really funny though if this backfires such that Ds get more gerrymandered seats overall, though, lol.

    • TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zip
      11·
      18 hours ago

      CA lawmakers saw the writing on Texas’ glory hole wall and removed the “if Texas does” verbiage from prop 50 before it was put to vote. As it stands now, before appeals, CA gets to draw new lines, and TX can get fucked.

      • taiyang@lemmy.world
        5·
        18 hours ago

        Hmm. Neat. I didn’t mind Prop 50 mostly because it’s a one off thing. Plus we already know Rs already are more represented in the house than they should be due to gerrymandering, so it’s not like there aren’t other states to offset, lol.