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GOP nets 1 more House seat as Missouri passes gerrymandered map [View all]
The Missouri Senate passed a new congressional map on Friday — a move that likely gives Republicans control of an additional House seat after next year’s midterms.
Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe pushed for the map’s passage and it is expected to be signed into law quickly.
Missouri is now the second red state to increase the number of GOP-leaning seats in its congressional map through a mid-decade redraw — something that had once been unusual but has now become key to President Donald Trump’s midterm strategy to keep control of the House of Representatives. Trump urged GOP state senators during their caucus meeting this week to pass it, the Missouri Independent reported.
The new composition of seats carves up Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver’s Kansas City seat and creates a safe Republican district. It also redraws the state’s 2nd Congressional District, which GOP Rep. Ann Wagner won by nearly 8 percentage points in 2024, to more heavily favor the party.
Typically, congressional maps are redrawn once per decade, after the Census. But with the House of Representatives so closely divided, there is opportunity to use the redistricting process to shore up an advantage. Republicans, fearing they will lose their slim majority in next year’s midterms, see the process as one way to keep its edge.
Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe pushed for the map’s passage and it is expected to be signed into law quickly.
Missouri is now the second red state to increase the number of GOP-leaning seats in its congressional map through a mid-decade redraw — something that had once been unusual but has now become key to President Donald Trump’s midterm strategy to keep control of the House of Representatives. Trump urged GOP state senators during their caucus meeting this week to pass it, the Missouri Independent reported.
The new composition of seats carves up Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver’s Kansas City seat and creates a safe Republican district. It also redraws the state’s 2nd Congressional District, which GOP Rep. Ann Wagner won by nearly 8 percentage points in 2024, to more heavily favor the party.
Typically, congressional maps are redrawn once per decade, after the Census. But with the House of Representatives so closely divided, there is opportunity to use the redistricting process to shore up an advantage. Republicans, fearing they will lose their slim majority in next year’s midterms, see the process as one way to keep its edge.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/12/missouri-map-redistricting-midterms-00557990
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