redistricting

Democrats are eyeing an opportunity to reduce the Republican majority in the state House or win it outright thanks to population shifts over the past decade and more favorable districts.

The majority highlighted traditional redistricting criteria and partisan fairness as reasons why the court picked a map submitted by a group of Pennsylvanians from among more than a dozen proposals.

Dr. Lee Ann Banaszak, the head of the Department of Political Science at Penn State and a member of the Pennsylvania Redistricting Advisory Council in 2021, joins Take Note.

The high court’s pivotal role in choosing the next map, which could alter the balance of power in Washington, D.C., will likely fuel continued partisan scrutiny from Republicans.

Central Pennsylvania residents said they want to see communities kept intact when it comes to congressional redistricting during a listening session with Governor Tom Wolf’s Redistricting Advisory Council Monday.

The commission charged with redrawing Pennsylvania’s House and Senate maps has backtracked on a provision of a major “prison gerrymandering” decision it made last month.

Reactions from county leaders to a recent decision by the commission in charge of redrawing Pennsylvania’s state legislative districts to count prison inmates in their home districts, not where they’re incarcerated, are divided along partisan lines.

The move to eliminate "prison gerrymandering" will benefit communities of color when new House and Senate maps are drawn, but Republicans are questioning its legitimacy.

This article is part of a yearlong reporting project focused on redistricting and gerrymandering in Pennsylvania. It is made possible by the support of…

This article is part of a yearlong reporting project focused on redistricting and gerrymandering in Pennsylvania. It is made possible by the support of…