Redistricting never ends—and neither does our commitment to bringing you the most up-to-date data for every congressional district in the nation. With new maps now enacted in Alabama and North Carolina, Daily Kos Elections is pleased to publish updates to some of our most used tools.
Maps in other states are likely on the way soon, and we'll provide fresh data once it's certain that they'll be used in 2024. In particular, Georgia's Republican-run legislature just passed a new map pursuant to a court order, but a judge must still sign off on it before it can take effect.
● Presidential election results by district. Our extremely popular database, which has become the gold standard for this particular type of data, now includes the results of the 2020 presidential election as they would have played out under the new maps in both Alabama and North Carolina.
A federal court imposed a new map on Alabama after state lawmakers refused to comply with the Voting Rights Act and create a second Black-majority district. That new district is numbered the 2nd and would have voted for Joe Biden by a 56-43 margin; the previous white-majority district backed Donald Trump 64-35. As a result, 2nd District Rep. Barry Moore has decided to seek reelection in the new 1st, which will pit him against fellow Rep. Jerry Carl in next year's Republican primary. The 2nd, meanwhile, will host an open-seat race and will very likely elect a Black Democrat next year.
North Carolina's new map, meanwhile, is simply a naked power grab by Republicans, who were given the green light to gerrymander after they retook a majority on the state Supreme Court last year. The new boundaries target four Democrats. It makes three districts unwinnably red: Kathy Manning's 6th, Wiley Nickel's 13th, and Jeff Jackson's 14th. It also turns Don Davis' 1st District into a toss-up. Manning has already said she won't seek another term, while Jackson is running for state attorney general. Davis will run again, but Nickel has not announced his plans. The candidate filing deadline is Friday.
If you want to dive in even further, click through for our spreadsheets showing all our calculations, as well as county-level data, for both Alabama and North Carolina.
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