AUSTIN – Legislators will take up redistricting this session, opening up the possibility for Republicans to further redraw districts in their favor. The Texas...
Senators voted unanimously to take up redistricting again after Republicans gerrymandered seats in 2021.
The Texas Senate voted unanimously to take up redistricting, a once-in-a decade practice of redrawing political district boundaries to accommodate changes in population. The Legislature undertook the process in 2021, after 2020 census figures showed the state grew more than any other in the U.S. Many Democrats decried it as gerrymandering.from Democratic Sens. Sarah Eckhardt of Austin and Roland Gutierrez of San Antonio. Both charged that 2021′s redistricting violated the Texas Constitution.
However, because of pandemic related issues, the Census Bureau issued the population count several months late. That led to the Legislature to take up the issue during a special session. Midterms took place with new district lines that critics argued gave no further representation to non-white voters, who fueled about 95% of Texas’ population growth between 2010 and 2020, according to the census.,” Republicans largely shored up their advantages in districts that had been growing more Democratic. The process resulted in making most of Texas’ districts non-competitive election contests between the two parties.
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