Posted on 08/22/2025 9:34:16 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
As Texas Republicans and California Democrats redraw U.S. House districts to their advantage ahead of next year’s elections, they’re potentially disrupting a rare partisan balance in American politics.
The 220-215 majority that Republicans won over Democrats in last year’s elections almost perfectly aligns with the share of the vote the two parties received in districts across the U.S., according to an Associated Press analysis. Although the overall outcome was close to neutral, the AP’s analysis shows that Democrats and Republicans each benefited from advantages in particular states.
The AP used a mathematical analysis designed to measure how many more U.S. House seats political parties won in each state beyond what would have been expected from the share of the vote they received. The analysis showed a significant political tilt in one-third of the states’ congressional districts, with either Democrats or Republicans winning at least one more seat than expected.
Partisan advantage in 2024 U.S. House elections
Republicans won a 220-215 U.S House majority over Democrats in 2024. That aligned with the average partisan vote in districts nationwide. But parties still had an advantage in some states, where they won more seats than expected based on their share of the vote.
Where do Democrats hold the biggest edge?
In California, Democrats won 43 of the 52 seats last year — about six more seats than would have been expected based on the average share of the vote for U.S. House candidates of each party. That was the biggest gain among all states.
At the urging of Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, California lawmakers on Thursday approved a plan to redraw the district lines created by an independent citizens commission after the 2020 census. Their goal is to give Democrats a better shot at winning five...
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That's the whole idea.
In other words, the uniparty is broken. Sounds good to me.
Actually, the Democrats have been using redistricting using racial & now illegals as an excuse to capture more seats. Lo and behold, it is all done on a partisan basis. It’s also far from being a rare occurrence as well. AP, is a BS source for the truth.
Trump got 38% of the vote in Commiefornia.
Analize that Ape Pee.
I suspect the CA jerrymander will backfire and result in a pickup of 1 Republican seat in CA.
They are incompetent in all things.
What the AP won’t admit is, the Dems have been gerrymandering to their benefit for decades and have squeezed all the blood out of that turnip they can, whereas the Republicans are just getting started.
The only question is: Will they actually follow suit?
43 to 9
48 to 4
DAVID A. LIAR
The urinalist who doesn’t actually even know the definition of the word
Balance
It’s only cheating if it hurts dimocrats!
Newsom and California going for One Party Rule which means robbing the taxpayers that are left in the state
An article on gerrymandering that doesn’t talk about Illinois’s ridiculous map shouldn’t have the word balance in the headline.
If the deluded leftist children at AP are unhappy it must be a good thing.
pay no attention to those 10+/- states with ZERO R representatives
The Ass. Press. They’re all goofy.
Roughly the same as the count with no Dem representation.
In terms of correct, using the Trump vote as determinant, in a state or nationally, for seat allocation, is likely shaky.
The correct measure would be the total votes for House candidates in a state and how that aligns with seat count.
L0L
Baaaawwwaaaahhhh...
After 2024 elections:
12 states have no Democrat representatives; 3 of those have only 1 representative - (most OK 5 reps)
7 states have no Republican representatives; 1 of those has only 1 representative - (most MA 9 reps)
This is why there are times when I get a bit pissed off at some California bashing. More people voted for President Trump in this state than in any other besides Texas and Florida.
And the Republican party is the one that stabbed us in the back by opening the borders, ensuring that the Democrats would get control. And Yes, I am looking at a couple of Republican Presidents who sold us down the path to slavery.
Well, there’s that little matter of the two week period to “cure” ballots after the election. They cured them all right, and they stole 4-5 seats in CA
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