Missouri voters block Republican-drawn congressional map
NBC News projects the result after Missouri Republicans lost a yearlong fight to put the new map in place for the midterms.
- On Tuesday, Missouri voters rejected the GOP-drawn congressional map, preventing it from taking effect for future elections and concluding a long-running political and legal battle over redistricting.
- People Not Politicians Missouri gathered more than 300,000 signatures to force the referendum, far exceeding the 106,000 required to bypass legislative attempts to implement the map.
- Ultimately, the Supreme Court rejected Missouri Republicans' attempts to use the redrawn map for this year's elections three times, ensuring the referendum result stands as final.
- The defeat preserves Missouri's 2022 congressional districts, including the Kansas City-based district Republicans sought to redraw to challenge Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver.
- This outcome challenges a national trend where Nine states enacted mid-decade congressional maps following President Donald Trump's call ahead of 2026 midterms.
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Missouri voters reject Trump-backed congressional map 62%-38%
Missouri voters rejected the Republican-drawn congressional map backed by President Trump, blocking its use in future elections and keeping the post-2020 census map that protects a Democratic-leaning Kansas City district. The result followed a lengthy court fight and a voter-led referendum, dealing a setback to Republicans’ effort to gain a House seat through mid-decade redistricting.
Missouri voters reject Trump-backed congressional map, dealing GOP redistricting defeat
A Republican-drawn congressional map designed to give the GOP another seat in the U.S. House was soundly rejected by Missouri voters Tuesday, rebuffing President Donald Trump’s effort to reshape the state’s political boundaries in his party’s favor. The defeat of Proposition A means Missouri will retain the congressional districts established in 2022, preserving a Kansas […]
Missouri Proposition A fails, rejecting gerrymandered election map
A back-and-forth legal battle left the fate of Missouri’s election map in the hands of voters. Now, the votes are in, and Missouri will stick with the congressional district boundaries lawmakers enacted in 2022. Rejecting Proposition A with 62% of the vote, according to preliminary results, means voters disapproved of state lawmakers changing up voting […]
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