Measure to redistrict, which would add two GOP-friendly seats, failed 19-31 after 21 Republicans joined 10 Democrats
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Indiana Republicans rejected an effort to redraw the state’s congressional map on Thursday, a stunning and blunt rebuke of Donald Trump and Republican efforts to reconfigure the state’s congressional districts to add two more Republican-friendly seats.
The measure failed 19-31, with 21 Republicans joining 10 Democrats in rejecting the new maps.
Republicans currently represent seven of Indiana’s nine congressional districts. The new map would have favored Republicans in all nine districts. It would have accomplished this by carving up the Democratic-stronghold of Indianapolis into four districts and appending a slice of its voters to heavily GOP districts. It would have also split the congressional district in the north-west of the state, currently represented by Frank Mrvan, in two.
